When my partner and I were looking for a place to live together, we physically got into the neighborhoods and felt the vibe there (I wish we'd biked or walked instead of the driving experience.) Equipped with our list of things that our ideal place had, we dealt with awareness of our optimism as well as our ability to welcome upgrades into our life. We used our intuitions to select places (and landlords' voice mails) that felt like "all green lights" and interviewed for an understated place that was surprisingly Out Of This World. The things that made it affordable were things that we could do something about (clean the carpet ourselves, replace the electrical outlets, get some curtains, accept the color scheme) and our structural and feng-shui desires were fundamentally met.
We knew we were lucky, because we knew what to focus on, and what wouldn't phase us. We knew the hard as well as the soft goals we shared, and what was basic and what was frills. We were becoming neighbors ...on purpose.
About Me
- Briana Barrett-Squirrel
- "What would it be like to know that all of my neighbors - and all of the other people who can make life Sweet - are actively Being the change they wish to see in their world?"
That is my challenge, my question, my Quest, the change / wish to see in my world:
I wish my neighbors - and everyone who can make my life Sweet - to see my goodness and my unique skills and talents, and ask me to bring the real, deep-down me to their lives.
I wish to see and cultivate their goodness by knowing and inviting their unique skills and talents to come to life in return.
Lastly, I wish that anyone with this wish finds Sweetness, confidence in their own goodness... and this marvelous, deep satisfaction.
I am seeing the change I wished to see in my world.
In my business, called Inside-Out Sustainable, I play 5 roles:
~ Like a spiritual temp agency, I feel out what kind of work I wish to do next, listen for people's needs, and meet them;
~ I refer neighbors to one another;
~ I actively support neighbors in creating a culture of get-togethers;
~ I write, teach, research, and report;
~ I'm a freelance consultant.
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