This is for everyone who feels as though they've spent their entire lives coloring outside the lines, whether as parents, students, employees, community members, consumers or citizens. My goal is to facilitate friendships, encourage conversations, generate ideas and make it possible to help each other. Even now in 2010, when it's easier than ever to celebrate individuality and diversity, there's a lot of pressure to conform.
I've found this to be especially true while parenting school-age kids; being a "helicopter mom" and a cheerleader are such pervasive expectations that if you don't go along with the game, you feel like a slacker.
A friend of mine feels as though she's always the one with the outside-the-box ideas at work. The fact that some of those wacky ideas have saved her company thousands of dollars doesn't make it any easier for her to be taken seriously by her cautious coworkers.
One of my colleagues consistently speaks up for homeless and at-risk young people. She's helped many of those kids find homes and jobs or enroll in school, thereby getting them off the streets. Her neighbors, however, find her passion a little strange - after all, these aren't her kids.
If being genuine and living an authentic life are more important to you than being hip, respectable, powerful or whatever the measuring standard for your age group and community may be, this blog's for you. Sailing against prevailing winds takes stamina. We need to encourage each other. I hope this blog can help out.
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