Additions to & excerpts from my personal Rotary “vocational” remarks in August 2022 to “my” Rotary Club of Fredericksburg (TX) Morning

Welcome to my “stream-of-consciousness” version of my autobiography!

“Fun, Friends, Fulfillment — elected, selected, honored, cheered on, awarded, rewarded, recognized, praised, chosen, advanced:” my job-hopping history … my vocations / “callings” & accompanying adventures In about 2020 — much to my own surprise, when I remarked to a former Ingalls School District student Sharon Oringderff, “You know after it’s all said & done, I really loved you kids.” To which she automatically responded, “Oh, we knew that!”

Beginning in Aug. 2022: my 100x daily affirmations (= each affirmation daily for every day of my life, beginning 6-30-’46): Thank You. Eternal Divine Christ Light Consciousness: eternally transforming all — for Life’s Highest Destiny blessings. All for the sole eternal glory of Eternal Divine Christ-Light Consciousness / Eternal Compounding Grace. I love you, I’m sorry, please forgive me, thank you. Every day in every way, God is making me better, better & best. I am celebrating Life. I am inspiring Joy. Eternal, compounding Divine Light Consciousness: fully realized as all, by all, One: magnificent!

Contemplating my magical life, sometimes I think that all I have to do is to admit that not only are “These the Good Old Days,” but perhaps this really is heaven on earth & my only role is to proclaim it — as I did publicly at the paradigm-changing, tremendously successful conclusion of the 3-day, intensive Money&U interactive workshop in Austin, TX, May 1993. … so I’m hereby proclaiming Heaven on Earth now! & sharing some of my serendipitous adventures, below.

a quick summary of my jobs … followed by volunteer jobs:

Kansas City, MO, Public Schools: Von Horn High School student teacher, fall, 1967: 1st-5th-year Russian; 1st & 2nd-year Spanish; spring semester 1967 & ’67-’69: full-time, contract substitute teacher (Academically Talented 5th & 6th-grade class; three 6th-grade classes; one 1st-grade class; 7th & 8th-grade Spanish;

Ingalls, KS,Jr. High & High School: 1969-1972: 1st-3rd-year Russian; 1st & 2nd-year Spanish; 3-yr. sponsor of girls’ jr. high pep club, sr. high pep club, sr. high cheer leaders, prom sponsor, senior trip sponsor x 2; regional speech tournament coordinator; Nominee for KS Teacher of the Year;

Breitenbach Farms, Inc. (10,000-acre, dryland wheat farm operation primarily in Cheyenne County, CO): pres. & sec.: 1970-1984; Breitenbach Dental Office in Dodge City, KS: 1973-1983, chairside dental assistant

Dodge City, KS Community College: Introduction to English Composition x 2 or 3 sections; coordinated workshops for DCCC Center for Business & Industry; taught Life Skills for adults with disabilities at DCCC for Arrowhead West Inc. clients; DCCC Director of Community Relations & Resource Development

Pres.-elect Dodge City Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors; quarterly winner of Outstanding Member of Dodge City Women’s Chamber of Commerce; taught two of Our Lady of Guadalupe Wed. evening jr. classes & one 2nd-grade class of Bible School / Catholic catechism;

Univ. of TX at Austin: taught two sections of Introduction to Writing for Mass Communication, one section of Copy Editing, one section of Writing for Public Relations; was the UT Austin College of Communication’s first Fund-development Officer; internship sponsor for UT Austin’s Women in Communications organization; member of Public Relations Soc. of Am.

Texas Department of Health: 1993-2003: Shots Across Texas legislatively mandated, social-marketing Campaign that raised $2+M through national insurance & pharmaceutical companies; manager, Texas Volunteer Health Corps with two, six-figure US-sponsored VISTA / Volunteers In Service To America outreach programs & a high-performance team; won TDH’s prestigious H.E.A.T.H. Award, Most Creative volunteer project award & Honorary Laboratorian. Served as Ready Teddy, Emergency Manageemt Services Bear-a-Medic for community outreach events (e.g., Public Service Announcement taping of baseball star Craig Biggio & a precious baby; & co-chair of the TDH Centers of Excellence committee.

TX Higher Education Coordinating Board, 2004-2006: an outreach trainer for 10 of the 20 TX Education Service Centers’ geographical regions: providing 20 six-hour, interactive training sessions for 1,000+ community volunteers, school superintendents, principals, teachers, parents & Parent Teacher Assoc. local organizations, community colleges & public & private universities throughout TX — through the leadership of the TX Education Agency & the TX A&M University Extension Services personnel.

TX Tech University System: Public Relations Director; TTU Undergraduate Admissions & TTU ICASALS (Internatioal Center for Arid & Semi-Arid Lands Studies). Retired in circa 2010

I’ of the ve lived in 10 locations ^& visited 7 additional countries: Wichita, KS x2; San Diego, CA x 2; Lawrence, KS x3; Barcelona, Spain; Munich, Germany; Kansas City, KS; Dodge City, KS; Austin, TX; Lubbock, TX; Fredericksburg, TX; visited: Paris, France x2′; Brussels, Belgium, East & West Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Istanbul, Izmir & 5 other Turkish cities; Honduras, Panama, Colombia, NYC; Trenton, NJ; dozens of Texas towns & cities through my outreach with two, state-mandated, social-marketing campaigns: Shots Across Texas / TX Dept. of Health & College for All Texans Campaign / TX Higher Education Coordinating Board & Pres., Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Assoc. of W. TX & Eastern New Mexico; & several dozen KS towns & cities during my biennial presidency of the KS Division of the American Assoc. of Univ. Women (approx. 4,000 members; 64 local branches throughout KS) …

Quick, off-the-top-of-my-head summary of completely unexpected, serendipitous leadership roles, jobs, volunteer adventures:

a Top, multi-year seller of Camp Fire Girl boxes of Russell Stover chocolates — only $1 per box. My selling success earned my name on The Tree Bark Scroll at Camp Ko-Ha-Me in Kansas; grade-school years: Blue Bird & eventual member of TaKiMakoda / circle of friends Camp Fire Girl group with Karen Morse, Donna Mitchell, Susan Young, Barbie Brasfield, Tammy Jarman & others. I chose “TaWaCa” / Happy Flower for my Camp Fire Girl name. M 55-year-older father patiently helped me earn beads through required duties in the Camp Fire Girl manual. I donated my Camp Fire Girl vest with all the beads I’d earned, my Camp Fire Girl manual with all of the bead-earning activities I’d completed & lifelong favorite books, yearbooks, photos, hand-written notebooks & a binder filled with my hand-written, year-by-year memories to the Texas Tech University Archives at T Tech Univ. in Lubbock, TX — where I worked for six-or-so years until my retirement circa 2012.

Twice-elected class president of my 5th-grade class at Alice Birney Elementary School in San Diego, CA. Led the Mr. Graves’ fifth-grade girls’ athletics team “The Mad Hatters” to a winning season & won a free trip to Disney Land (from San Diego to Anaheim on the church bus — with my mother & step-father Russell Gabbert as adult sponsors) for having taken so many classmates to my Missionary Alliance Church Sunday School classes.

Leader in Roosevelt Intermediate girls’ gym class: group, syncopated marching: my favorite “sport. Elected Student Council representative from my Roosevelt Homeroom 204 but never got to serve — given my second move to San Diego, CA. Appointed as a 9th-grade hall monitor but never served even when I moved back from San Diego, CA. Selected as Queen Nominee for homeroom 204. Susie Wolf won as all-school 9th-grade queen.

winner of dance contests at Co-Ed: Friday-night sock hops at St. James Episcopal Church: 1958-1960elected one-year secretary of Co-Ed (nominated by boy friend John Lambert; my Co-Ed speech contest manager, Jamie Howell).

Danced on CBS-TV’s Hi-Fi Hop with John Lambert: that particular show was chosen for airing on the 25th anniversary of Hi-Fi Hop. My now-late, former husband Dodge City, KS, dentist Chris Breitenbach was watching the show with me in Dodge City, KS, & remarked, “There you are dancing!” All I could see was John Lambert, my 3-time-wearing-his-ring boy friend. He was a very attentive, kind & thoughtful boyfriend. I lost him as a boyfriend when I moved the second time to San Diego, CA (after 8th grade & just before the beginning of 9th grade) — by my return to Wichita during 2nd semester of 9th grade, John had irretrievably moved on to girl friend Duane Jinnett — even though we had exchanged a few letters when I was attending Woodrow Wilson Jr. High in San Diego..

a personal highlights:

* sole, 3-yr. Senator at Wichita High School East, 1961-64 (1 of 4 in 1961-62; 1 of 6; in 1962-63; 1 of 8 in 1963-64, respectively)

* invited to join prestigious Chi Omega sorority at The University of Kansas, January 1965 — thanks mainly to the Panhellenic mothers of the Kabongas / East High boys’ intramural circle of friends: mothers of Bob Bury, Jim Helmick, Bob Fulks, Mark Anderson & others

Places I’ve volunteered / worked: Institute of Logopedics in Wichita, KS; Kansas City, MO, Public Schools: Van Horn High School, Swinney Elementary School, Kumpf Elementary School; ?Van Horn? Jr. High; Ingalls Independent School District: high school, jr. high & grade school; Dodge City Community College: Intro to English Composition x2; class for adults (from Arrowhead West Inc. non-profit organization for southwest Kansans with intellectual challenges; KETCH: KS Elks Training Center for the Handicapped; DCCC Center for Business & Industry; Community Relations & Resource Development; after a 9-mo. stint with Leadership Kansas, I helped other Dodge Citians form Leadership Dodge: a Chamber of Commerce-sponsored, annual program to systematically, annually recruit a class of 12 local leaders to learn more about business, industry, non-profit & educational activities within Dodge City; Dodge City Women’s Chamber of Commerce: Outstanding Woman for one quarter; UT Austin: Writing for Mass Communication x2 (one group of students & I went to the UT Student Union to have a group photo taken with Santa Claus: fun! I received a top-most, informal rating from UT College of Communication students; Copy Editing, Writing for Public Relations; Fund-Development officer for the College of Communication (within approx. 2 mos. tuned a money-losing Phon-a-thon enterprise into a $20K annual revenue-builder; 9-yr. career at the TX Dept. of Health, thanks to Leadership Austin classmate Ms. D. Lynn Denton: Shots Across Texas, infant immunization / social-marketing campaign that raised $5+M dollars, recruited thousands of volunteers (TX A&M Univ. System AgriLife Extension wonder-workers, national insurance company, Gay Gaddis & Sherry Matthews’ Advertising Agencies, Dairy Queen, Blue Bell Ice Cream, Kiwanis & thousands more; TX Volunteer Health Corps: highest-performance, excellent team I’ve even been privileged to work with (with 2 federally funded Volunteers In Service To America / VISTA programs; Volunteer Mailroom with people with disabilities as volunteers: on site & at their respective agencies’ sites ; TX Alliance for Healthy Communities; TX Higher Education Coordinating Board: College for ALL Texans Campaign: trainer for hundreds of public school superintendents, principals, teachers & program directors for 12 of 24 of TX Education Agency’s Education Service Centers: geographical, high-performance administrative sites to provide educational & technical support for all teachers, administrators, computer-support & other key personnel ,,, were my assigned training areas: dozens of fun, interactive trainings for professional educators, administrators, parents, volunteer community leaders & ESC personnel throughout TX for 2 years: e-lists with approx. 10,000 talented individuals; I counted 100+ local GO Centers (go to college) throughout my geographically assigned areas of TX: magnificent educators, parents, administrators who deeply cared about children’s futures; TX Tech Univ. System: Public Relations Director in Lubbock / northwest, TX during a public-relations e-storm about changing of TTU System logo: use of cotton boles (true issue was that we had egregiously hired an Austin ad agency v. a local ad agency to manage the change of the visual identity system); fortunately I somehow managed to remain working in Lubbock: from the TTU System to TX Tech Univ.: Office of Undergraduate Admissions & later the winding-down Institute for the Study of Arid & Semi-Arid lands — where I eventually retired. ICASALS ceased to exist shortly thereafter. ICASALS had an outstanding administrative assistant who wrote effective grants, mentored incoming students & visiting faculty from Brazil. When she moved away, my interest faded. During my simultaneous years on the board of Lubbock-based Breedlove, food bank for the world, I travelled to Honduras where I saw long-time volunteer missionaries (& their children, following in their medical-volunteer footsteps) working with local people. Very inspiring! I had first become aware of Breedlove & its world-wide food program when I was part of the 100-women, year-long Leadership Texas organization, former TX Gov. Ann Richards’ version of Texas’ good-old-girls’ network of accomplished women in all areas of local, county, state, national & international work, volunteerism & political activities.

My years in Lubbock were idyllic: I joined The Rotary Club of Lubbock (the “good old boys” who had gone all through public school & TX Tech together; they repeatedly elected me to their board of directors whenever I was eligible to be on the ballot & eventually elected me Pres. of The Rotary Club of Lubbock Foundation, worth approximately $i600K — from which we used earnings to support school- & community projects. In the meantime, I’d been recruited to become Rotary District Foundation Chair & in the learning & training process became so favorably impressed with The Rotary [International] Foundation that I became an Arch Klumph Society member at the $250K-level & got invited to Evanston, IL, to give my 4-min. acceptance speech & to see my favorite photo display on the glass Wall of Donors at RI headquarters. Almost immediately, I moved from Lubbock to Fredericksburg in Jan. 2014 & joined the Rotary Club of Fredericksburg Morning where I served as president.; Rotary District & Rotary Zone Membership Chair.

On my first Monday of retirement(circa 2010), a volunteer from the Humane Society of West Texas called me & asked me to foster six new-born kittens, who had been born at the South Plains Food Bank farm. — & thus began an additional phase of my cat-loving life … all a surprise to me because I had been a dyed-in-the-wool dog parent & had naturally thought of myself as a “dog person.” Any way, because the South Plains Food Bank was on of the projects of “my” Rotary Club of Lubbock, I agreed. And thus began decades’-long fostering, transporting, trapping-spaying-neutering (mostly on the TTU campus) of cats. — & establishing dozens of dog-&-cat friendly endowments at various community foundations in Lubbock, Dodge City, Wichita, Austin, Fredericksburg.

Highlights of TX Tech experiences: founding member, eventual president of Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Assoc. of W. TX & E. New Mexico & multiple-endowments founder of the Phi Beta Kappa Chapter of TTU; board member & endowments-founder for near-by South Plains College in Levelland, TX: where I was named an Annual Pace Setter by their fund-development board; I served several years on the fast-paced SPC Development Board; named Hispana of the Year by Sigma Delta Pi & its sponsor Dr. Comfort Pratt; top award from the Lubbock Hispanic Assoc. of Women; Humanitarian of the Year award in about 2013 (a year or two after I’d moved from Lubbock to Fredericksburg), the Lubbock Volunteer Center named me Humanitarian of the Year — as did the Humane Society of West Texas. At the Volunteer Center’s prestigious luncheon, several tables of friends from my Rotary Club of Lubbock showed up to cheer on my Humanitarian remarks. Also, I was invited to join Lubbock Women’s Club; co-chair of decades’-long CEO Roundtable (a decades’-long circle of men friends who were some of the “good old boys of Lubbock” / “king makers” (governors) of Texas. Surprisingly, they took me into their long-time circle of friends & most of them through the years introduced me to their wives, families, best friends & treated me like a Lubbock native. How generous of them & what an unexpected compliment to me. Continuing into 2022, The Roundtable donates generously to annual & endowed scholarships ($300K+ ever-compounding value) for TX Tech Univ. Honors College & all-university top scholars. A hug “Thank you” to Lubbock new-comer Marie Evans for having taken over the care-&-feeding of The Roundtable … nowadays probably a 60+ year volunteer circle of friends.

Year-by-year highlights

my mother coordinated a huge birthday part for my #3 year: including neighbor kids Carol Sue Dewey, Peggy Brehm & dozens more — but not the Sheridan boys Mike & Pat across the street — because they hadn’t invited me to their b-day party, & my mother recalled that I had to watch from afar while kids played in their front yard. A decade or so later, Pat Sheridan & his thuggy boy friends, stole my beloved pet rabbit on Hallowe’en night & threw it to its death down a neighbor’s chimney. How sad for all concerned.

Born June 30, 1946: right in the middle of the year: I liked that symmetry! a Baby Boomer: continuously surrounded by kids my age: I loved it. At 2 year-old, I climbed a tall ladder to join my adored father & roof-repair team working to plug rain leaks atop our brown-brick home at 428 S. Estelle. Three-year-old Carl Dee Williams had reported my ascent to my mother, who quickly & silently recruited a roof-repair man to grab me & return me safely to the ground. I had made my climb to the edge of the roof.

1950-1954: Kindergarten through 4th grade at Sunnyside Elementary School on Kellogg St. / US Hwy. 54 in Wichita, KS. Teachers: Kindergarten: Mrs. Halderman; 1st grade: Ms. Walerious / Ms. Cruz; 2nd grade: Mrs. Klepinger / Miss McGinley; 3rd grade: Mrs. Edgington (Miss Scott, also, a 3rd-grade teacher was our art teacher & taught us how to draw with perspective: fascinating); I was assigned to sit with Robert Linsted during math because we were both good at math: I heard he became a professor of Civil Engineering at Wichita State Univ.), 4th grade: Miss Hackett: she flunked me in English for an entire quarter (I’m not sure why, but I was terrified of school thereafter. When my mother called to inquire how she could help me with English, the teacher replied that the grade was only to “clip my wings” Clip my wings?! I was barely coping with my parents’ divorce & my mother & husband #3 moving in with my father & me). Side note about Baby Boomer years: during kindergarten & 1st grade some of us Baby Boomers got shuttled off to a newly built school & the some of rest of us got put into the next-grade-higher class with older kids. Throughout grade school, I was home sick approximately a month out of each school year: measles, chicken pox, tonsilitis … but I never felt as though I missed much because school moved so slowly. I’d talked my father into teaching me to read before I ever went to school.

1955-56: Alice Birney Elementary School in San Diego, CA: Mr. Graves, class president 2x, elected to take classmates’ savings (via a Bank of America school-outreach promotion) to the school office; a leader of the school’s winning-est The Mad Hatters girls’ intramural sports team. My down-the-street piano teacher Mrs. Elizabeth Dale paid me a quarter if I would practice the piano 30 min. a day. I was delighted. My mother was mortified. My piano teacher was married to the Rev. Charles Dale, minister of the Missionary Alliance Church that my mother, step-father & I attended, so I played the piano for Sunday School & Bible School classes. I won a free trip to the brand new Disneyland by having taken the most kids to my Sunday School classes. My mother & step-father were chaperones on that fun, church-bus trip from San Diego to Anaheim & back on a sunny Saturday. Throughout 5th grade in San Diego, I took my step-father’s last name: “Gabbert.” My step-father was a belligerent alcoholic, so eventually my mother & I (& a few months later: my step father <sigh>) moved back in with my father in Wichita.

1956-57: from San Diego back to Wichita: 6th grade teacher Mrs. Mrs. Lansdown, she didn’t seem to like us. There were two other 6th-grade classes: one was an advanced-placement class with Miss Scott. I was relieved to have been in CA when students were chosen for that class because those kids worked twice as hard as the rest of us. FUN! St. James Episcopal Church sponsored Friday-night Co-Ed sock hops for soon-to-be-7th graders & junior high kids. We Sunnysiders eventually got invited, & I was ready. I’d taken a year of ballroom dancing & had faithfully watched “Dick Clark’s American Bandstand” ABC-TV week-daily sock hop: if memory serves… 1.5 yr. hours in San Diego, only 30 min. on TV in Wichita — nevertheless, I was ready. My boyfriend John Lambert, who carried a switchblade, was a good rock-&-roller, so we had a great time every Fri. night at Co-Ed. He got me elected Sec. of the group: no responsibilities — just a title & a photo in the local Wichita Eagle newspaper. Coincidentally, the pres. of Co-Ed at the time was 9th grader Dallas Webster, whom I later crossed paths with in Austin when he was a computer researcher at MCC, a high-tech start-up where Stan Orth, my partner-at-the-time was the budget director: small world. Dallas was stunned when I had the photo of him & me (as 9th & 7th graders, respectively, in Wichita, KS) copied & posted on his MCC office door in Austin, TX. What a hoot!

1958-1961 7th & 8th grade Roosevelt Intermediate School in Wichita in Mr. Henry Frickel‘s home room #204. Henry Frickel was everyone’s favorite teacher. He taught math. He was my home room teacher for the 2.5 yr. I was at Roosevelt. I Spent the fall semester of 9th grade back in San Diego , CA: first at Hale Jr. High & then at Woodrow Wilson Jr. High. Once again, my mother had erroneously assumed that she & my 20-yr-older sister & my mother could get along (they couldn’t) & that it would be better if my mother weren’t living with two of her husbands (it wasn’t — turns out that my step-father / husband #3 & my father / husband #2 shared WWII memories in common … in addition to my on-again / off-again mother as their spouse). Don’t try to figure it out. They never did. Plus, my mother had a very temporary boyfriend at the neighborhood bar … another story, better forgotten. I was preoccupied with the fact that my on-again/off-again boy friend John Lambert had unexpectedly found another true love, whom he didn’t drop the minute he found out that I had again, unexpectedly & unannounced moved back to Wichita. Ah, young love. The moving from KS-CA-KS & the week-long move time & given the fact that CA schools started 1 mo. later than KS schools: I had a lot of catching up academically to do … when I found myself back in Wichita(from San Diego) for 2nd semester of 9th grade. while taking 5 “solids” classes: algebra, English, Latin, laboratory sciences & physical education I was banned from any & all social activities until I caught up & was making all A’s again. An impossible task that sooner than later turned out OK.

1961-1964: 3 glorious years at Wichita, KS, East High 3,000 students, Friday night sock hops at our gym “The Hangar:” the continuous excitement that true love &/or true adventure were in the offing at any moment. My only claims to fame are that I’m the only person in my 1,000-person class who was elected Class Senator all three years. And at one of the Friday night Hangar dances, several of the African-American women (ultra-amazing rock-&-roll dancers themselves) came to my area of the gym to watch me dance. And that I quizzed out of 9 hours of English at KU — thanks to the Advanced Placement prowess of our senior-year AP English teacher, who forced me to take the exam (after I’d casually mentioned to her that I wasn’t planning to take the test). The big AP English essay topic that year was about Moby Dick — exactly what we’d been studying in class. I’d just written a paper about the symbolic significance of the names of the ships in “Moby Dick” & their Old Testament namesakes. Having quizzed out of hours at KU gave me the goal of graduating from KU in 3 years, which I did. KU was a flunk-out / party school. A lot of would-be physicians dropped out after a semester.

1964-1967: graduated in 3 years from The Univ. of KS “With Distinction,” “Honors in Russian,” Phi Beta Kappa, earned a teaching certificate; joined Chi Omega sorority, thanks to the letter-writing campaign of my beloved circle of guy friends: The Kabongas, a intramural-sports circle of friends (Bob Bury, Jim Helmick, Rod Johnston, Bob Fulks & others). Luckily for me, they informally “adopted” me as their sister & would squire me around to social events while my North High, ’62 college boyfriend Ronnie Duane Morgan was in college at OK Christian College. Spent the summer of 1965 in Barcelona, Spain: delightful romance with a gorgeous, local attorney (Aldo d’Ambrosio Gomariz) whose younger, gorgeous sister was assigned to take me shopping; summer of 1966 in Munich, Germany with Oklahoma University’s Russian Language Institute. What I had hoped would be a goof-off summer with a handful of Okies learning Russian was a bunch of graduate school-level students from Ivy League universities: oh, my. Much to my surprise & dismay, college was far more time-consuming & academically demanding than I had assumed. I think I earned 9 hr. of Russian toward my double major of Russian & Spanish. During my OU Russian-language summer school, we classmates also visited East Berlin, Poland, Czechoslovakia, the USSR, Ukraine. While based in Munich, I made a visit to the Dachau Concentration Camp site of WWII — that my father & step-father had helped liberate during their respective WWII duties (my father: a Captain of Engineers; my step-father, a Master Sgt. of artillery). A secret of my success: during my freshman year of KU, I made a deal with myself to study steadfastly on week nights & not to lift a finger about studying on the week-ends: the personal agreement paid off: at KU & later at UT Austin while I was earning my PhD degree: 1987-1991. The week-ends were MINE!! In Austin, I treated myself to a Grey Line tour for every semester I successfully stayed enrolled (all but one: I dropped out of UT Austin after 1 mo. of my first semester … when I lost my car in the parking garage! Fortunately, a watchful professor had her administrative assistant telephone me — to suggest that I contact UT Austin Graduate School to request that my full-ride graduate fellowship be put on “hold” until my return. They did. I did. I completed my PhD in 1991 while holding down a full-time fund-development job in my UT Austin College of Communication. My floor-to-ceiling windowed office over-looked the line-up area for Austinites to get into the wildly popular “Austin City Limits” music show — held in the building next to mine. For a few months, I had an office in the base of the Communication B Bld. — the Austin City Limits building — where I could see celebrities & hundreds of “fans” coming & going. Fun! During my UT Austin years, I helped WICI / Women in Communications by doing job placement for UT Austin women communication majors: into communication-related businesses of my peer WICI members.

During my Lubbock years, Turkish TTU graduate students took dozens of us TX Tech faculty & staff on all-expenses-paid, week-long trips to, in & around Turkey … to promote their mentor Gulen’s schools for youth in Turkey. What an experience — to glance across a seemingly tranquil field into the war-torn country of Syria.

back to the Fall 1967: Kansas City, MO, Public Schools: student-taught 1st, 3rd & 5th-year Russian; 1st & 2nd-year Spanish at at Senior High School through cooperating teahers Mr. Manwarren & Ms. Willella Curnutt (probably The Best Teacher in the Known Kosmos). My 5th-year Russian students were headed to Ivy League universities & places that could tain them for the US Foreign Service.

1967-1968: full-time, contract, substitute teacher in KCMO Public Schools: 1st grade, Academically Talented 6th & 7th-graders & 7th graders at Swinney Elementary School & later an over-crowded 7th-grade class whose students hadn’t ranked academically high enough for their “AT” peers down the hall; next I was assigned to Kumpf Elementary School 7th-grade class: shamefully underserved 7th-grade class in downtown KCMO (almost all, beautiful African-American students, plus one, obviously intellectually challenged white boy who got beaten up on the rare occasion he showed up for school: broken windows, never-working toilets, a permanent armed guard patrolling hallways; dangerous play ground; BUT an elegant, conscientious pres. of PTA made a personal visit & plea to me to stay with the class for the duration of the school year: I was their 24th substitute teacher by the time I arrived in about April. I stayed. What a dismal experience & probable future for those beautiful, deserving students.

1969-72 As sec.-treas. of The Breitenbach (my married name) Family Reunion, I got a 3-year job teaching at Ingalls Independent School district: upper grade school through high school in Ingalls, KS — approx. 34 mi. west on US Hwy. 56 from Dodge City. I also taught 1st through 3rd-year Russian, 1st & 2nd-year Spanish, speech, physical education x2 (I can’t walk & chew gum, so my Chi Omega sorority sister Joy Miller, a PE major, helped me get myself organized): one year: girls only; one year: boys & girls: oh, my; I sponsored a senior trip to the Ozarks (where the senior boys managed to sink a boat within the 1st 30 minutes); a prom & prom banquet (the band I contracted with — from near-by Dodge City Community College … got drunk & quit an hour early, but while they were playing, they were good); a regional speech contest, judged our league’s pep club (my neighbor’s Bazine High School won even though I was the Pep Club sponsor for the sr. high & the jr. high for Ingalls Indep. School District bless Mrs. Irsik for having sewn me a pep club uniform!); class play; Parents’ Day fiesta, etc. I learned a lot from the cooks in the kitchen & the housekeepers. The teachers elected me Pres. of the Ingalls ISD Teachers Assoc. Our only official act was to withdraw from the KS Teachers association. I was nominated for KS Teacher of the Year & in later years — due to my serving as two-year Pres. of the 4,000-member KS Assoc. of University Women: was a two-year judge of the KS Teacher of the Year award through Emporia State Univ. Also, I was a Copeland, KS, High School commencement speaker & a prom banquet speaker for another western KS high school. Typical schedule; Monday nights: Dodge City Branch of the American Association of University Women (eventually I was branch / local president of our 100-member branch &then state treasurer & eventually 2-yr. president of the 64 KS AAUW branches with almost 4,000 KS members; ; Tuesdays: Ford County Historical Society meetings; Wednesdays: CCD teacher: Catholic equivalent of Sunday School: for 8th-graders & later for 2nd graders, wo were getting ready for their 1st Holy Communion (my egregious error: I unknowingly mis-advised the mother of one of my precious 2nd graders to have her daughter dress however she wanted for the communion service. WRONG on my part: all the little girls always wore frilly, all-white dresses. My precious advisee showed up wearing a magnificent, navy-blue suit with a pill-box hat to match. She looked magnificent, but she was different ly attired than the other 7-yr.-old little girls’. I hope my error didn’t scar her for life.

1972-1982: chairside dental assistant for my now late former husband Dr. Chris Breitenbach, KU (1962-65), Univ. of Missouri at Kansas City Dental School, 1965-1969). To ease the consternation of having a job that didn’t require even a high school diploma, I served as 5-yr. treasurer of the Ford County Historical Society (its Home of Stone was a top tourist attraction in Dodge City; one of Chris’ great uncles had dated the woman who had owned the historic, all-stone home in downtown Dodge City; a marriage had taken place in the old home, so as tour guide, I wore my wedding dress to add to the atmosphere. Also, I served at the FCHS’s two-year treasurer of The 1976 / Bicentennial Project: the Coronado Historical Park: a roadside stop near the site where Coronado & his troops successfully crossed the dangerous Arkansas River. The conquistadors held a mass of thanksgiving for having safely crossed the then-treacherous Arkansas River. We Ford County Historical Society friends buried an on-site time capsule so successfully that none of us remaining volunteers knows where the time capsule is! — but we had a terrific, regional, Bicentennial celebration in 1976 on the north side of US Hwy. 50 of Dodge City & the Ft. Dodge Old Folks; home. Chris donated money to the Historical Park with the proviso that the north side of the cross’ plaque quoted from an Englishman’s book … something to the effect: “the only role of the Spanish was that of conqueror. The native American Indians were friendly & helpful.” The Dodge City Women’s Chamber of Commerce selected me for their Outstanding Member of the quarter — right after I’d moved to Austin. It was gratifying to be remembered even though I had moved away — especially because I was an insecure, first-semester / drop-out PhD student at UT Austin College of Communication / Dept. of Journalism.

Because I had converted from Protestantism to Catholicism when I married in 1968, I enthusiastically taught 2nd grade & 7th grade CCD (Catholic Sunday School on Wed. evenings) classes for three years in the Hispanic / east side of Dodge City. Among others, I met & admired Margarita Amaro, ever-smiling, ever-kind-hearted. I nominated her for the Dodge City Lions Club Person of the Year. She won, & Chris & I had the pleasure of attending her standing-room-only banquet at the Silver Spur Convention Center. Her husband Vic Amaro was the long-time Dodge City Chief of Police. Also, in later years at the Silver spur Hotel & Conf. Room, I served as Mistress of Ceremonies for the 200+ person Kansas Honors Society banquet for 5-county high school seniors in the top 10% of their respective classes. Dignitaries from “my” University of KS came to Dodge City to honor western Kansas kids — including some of my former students from Ingalls. Suddenly my sullen, ungrateful attitude about KU (too difficult, demanded too much time) turned around. I ran for & won-by-a-land slide a 5-yr. term on the highly competitive KS Univ. Alumni Assoc. Bd. Chris had been my campaign manager & talked me into getting KU’s alumni mailing list & mailing postcards to everyone on the list. My postcards had my photo & “Vote for Me!” call to action. After my land-slide victory, the KU Alumni Assoc. never again released the mailing labels of their members to board candidates. Chris loved KU so much that he gladly drove me (3 or 4 times per year) x 5 years from Dodge City to Lawrence & back (from SW KS to NE KS). I was a bit intimidated by fellow board members: a former governor, oil barons, etc. But then they might have noticed my land-slide “win” from SW KS! When regularly returning to KU, I had the delightful opportunity to introduce some of my former Kansas City, MO students to my former Ingalls, KS students: small world! all KU Jayhawks.

During his dental-school years & my school-teaching & dental-office years, Chris & I steadfastly purchased farmland in Cheyenne County, CO — mostly at about $50 / acre: cheap, cheap, cheap because it was drydrydry. Eventually we had amassed approximately 10,000 acres & oil-&-gas companies were coming in to “thump” @$40/acre our land. Despite being the the ’30s era Dust Bowl area, rains came, dry-land wheat crops flourished; Cheyenne County farmers rented our land for their cattle to graze … money was pouring in. We brought land in Ford County, Hodgeman County … in the Garden City & Topeka areas, too. The older of my two older brothers & his wife went into a farming partnership with Chris & me. We all made money. Eventually Chris moved away, said he wasn’t ever coming back, so I divorced him & sold him my one-half of the thousands of acres of farmland we had purchased through the years.

Through popular off-the-shelf books about financial investing, I taught myself to invest & automatically reinvest (at no cost) in stocks & mutual funds that generally doubled about every five years. Non drama. No stress. No fees. In other words, I usually met my goal of 15% annual return, thanks to the annual report of Value Line — available at no charge in most public libraries. I became a philanthropist & to date have donated approximately $5+M to various community & university foundation & other non-profit organizations.

I owe al of my great health, good financial fortune & wonderful friends to the God of my understanding — & to my parents, wonderful friends through the decades & all of the kind-hearted people who have patiently listened to my personal story via Al-Anon, Over-eaters Anonymous & Adult Children of Alcoholics meetings in Austin, Lubbock & Fredericksburg. I’ve sponsored dozens of people & have been humbled & inspired by their stories.

Thank YOU for having read my meanderings. Thank you for being my friend. I wish you every success, prosperity & life eternal.

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Personal vision: All for the sole eternal glory of Eternal Divine Christ-Light Presence, Eternal Compounding Grace

Mission: Celebrate Life, Give thanks, Inspire Joy, Leverage Philanthropy

Strategy: Day-of-the-week prayers

Tactics: Day-of-the-week-by-themes (love, protection …) + “I am” affirmations: alphabetically

from 12 Step Promises: We are going to know a freedom … a new happiness … comprehend the word “serenity” … “know peace .. appreciation … we will intuitively know how to handle situation … we will come to realize that God is doing for us what we cannot do for ourselves.”

from Page 329 ACA Big Red Book: Affirmations: “It is okay to: know who I am. … to trust myself. … give myself a break … have fun & celebrate … detach with love. … Page 591: PROMISES … #6: We will enjoy feeling stable, peaceful, & financially secure … #12. Gradually, with our Higher Power’s help, we will learn to expect the best & get it.” THE ACA Serenity Prayer: God, grant me the serenity To accept the people I cannot change. The courage to change the one I can, And the wisdom to know that one is [I / myself].” …

from All Things are working for your Good formerly titled Blessed in the Darkness by Joel Osteen: …”see the big picture for our lives.” …”As a whole it’s fantastic, so beautiful. … a perfect place. … already … fitted, planned, designed.” …” already designed your life & laid out every piece, down to the smallest detail. … it would all work out for our good. … it’s going to fit perfectly in place. …. You … get through it … you will be different. … you … come out better. … stronger … greater trust in God. … blessed … new opportunities … grow through it … get stronger, trust in God. … prepare you … increase you … develop you.” … God who breathed His life into me, the God who is for me … God who crowned me with favor … God … takes pleasure in prospering me, He’s in complete control.” … He has blessed you. … ‘”It’s time! Here’s the meal I’ve prepared for you.”’ … you [are] blessed, healed, promoted, vindicated, in a position of honor & influence ….” …”Your destiny is the palace. … a victorious life … ‘”a new song in my mouth”’ … get ready … you’re coming out … God has somebody better. …”a new song in your heart.” … Every blessing that God promised you … victory is in your future … dreams coming to pass … with increase, abundance, promotion, health & restoration. That’s what’s up in front of you.” …”Rise to the Top” … Your best days … are still out in front of you. … God has something amazing in your future. … It’s working for you. You’re growing, you’re getting stronger.” …” bloom, blossom … flourish … victory … restoration … new beginnings & blessings – health, wholeness, creativity, justice, vindication, abundance, the fullness of your destiny!” …”the palace is coming … God is delivering you into abundance … into joy … into healing, wholeness & victory.” … “I’m being delivered. …”the god we serve knows how to pick you back up. … get ready. God’s about to lift you … you in a higher place … new opportunities … new friendships … new health … new joy … new fulfillment.” … “God will pay you back double. Get ready for increase … favor … new levels.” …give you … far & beyond favor. … the goodness of God, paying you back & bringing justice.” … “there’s a seat at the King’s table waiting for you. … favor … restoration … healing … increase. You have royal blood in your veins. The Most High God breathed His life into you. He’s crowned you with favor & destined you to live in the palace. … a place of wholeness, a place of victory. You’re still royalty. You still have the crown of favor. You still have the DNA of Almighty God. … There’s a seat at the King’s table with your name on it.” …”Things will happen for you that you couldn’t make happen.” …”The good news … always be somebody there to help you, to carry you, to get you to where you need to be.” … “God controls the universe. He’s a God of justice. … He’s going to keep working, restoring, promoting, & increasing you … Today you’re being summoned by the King. We need your presence. We need your gifts … your smile, your laughter, your love, & your kindness ….” …”gladness is coming … joy … your life filled with laughter & happiness … joy unspeakable … full of glory.” …”wheelbarrows full of treasures” … You’re coming out vindicated, promoted, respected, with abundance. … with blessings chasing you down.” …”stay in faith … [God] will balance your books. He’ll pay you back. … the rest of your life … rewarding … fulfilling … stay in peace. God is going to pay you back. … He’ll bring you out better. … from the Old Testament Book of Isaiah: “your inheritance … will be double … your joy will go on forever.” … a setup for God to show out in a new way. … the Most High God is working out His plan for your life. …you’re calm … you can handle it … you have the most powerful force in the universe on your side.” … “God is for you, none will dare be against you. … God … breathed life into you. … who makes blind eyes see … ‘”the answer is on the way. Thank You that healing is coming, blessing is coming, freedom is coming, favor is coming, victory is coming.”’ …”He created you to be anchored to hope, to go out each day expecting His goodness … the days ahead are better than the days behind.” … ‘”hope is in You … You have it all figured out, & You’ll get me to where I’m supposed to be.”’ … “…along the way you’ll see miracles, doors will open that you couldn’t open … the right people will show up … you’re about to step into a new level of favor, a new level of influence, a new level of anointing. You’re going to rise higher, accomplish your dreams, & reach the fullness of y9our destiny.” … ‘”I’m surrounded by God’s favor. Blessings are chasing me down. … I delight myself in the Lord, He will give me the desires of my heart.” …”The true mark of a champion … they keep looking for new ways to move forward, believing for new opportunities.” …”have Almighty God’s approval.” …”You end in victory, as more than a conqueror, as the head … fulfilling your destiny. … You’ll say in peace … it’s all going to work to your advantage.” …”The creator of the universe, the Most High God, has already planned it for good … a good break, a promotion, a restoration, a healing.” …”you keep a good attitude.” …”God is getting you prepared to be taken higher than you ever imagined. … to increase you … God knows what He’s doing. … ‘”God promised you … influence,

leadership, new levels … [God’s] plans for me are for good … I will fulfill my purpose & become who “God] created me to be.”’ … “ … a new perspective … a major comeback … things are going to shift in your favor. A good break, a healing, a promotion … restoration is coming. … I always cause you to triumph … He’s already lined up the victory parade … A Flourishing Finish.” … “The Creator of the universe has already destined you to leave your mark. … keep honoring God & being your best … the purpose God has designed for you. It’s bigger than you imagine. It’s more rewarding than you’ve ever dreamed.” …”…explosive blessings … catapult you ahead … favor … thank You that Your plans for me are for good … You’re bringing me to a flourishing finish.”’ …” … thanking God for the fullness of my destiny … another 140+ blessed years … your best laugh, your best dream, your best dance, your best song … still a full life ahead of you …pay you back … you’re … increased, promoted, & better … [God] has a hedge of protection around you than cannot be penetrated. Nothing can snatch you out of God’s hands. … you to your throne … pay you back … finish in victory.”

from Angel Energy: How to Harness the Power of Angels in your Everyday Life by John Randolph Price: “ … concentrate on that which is good in life … I am poised & powerful in the Presence of God. … quiet … still one … detached from this world, impersonal to illusion, I am totally open to the divine revelations … radiance illuminating my mind … celestial … highest … harmony … crystal-clear essence … in … my consciousness … the pure light of intuition, I know the Way. I … take direct & correct action. I know what to do, how to do it, & when. I am a divine knower. … The Will of God is flowing through me this very moment … joyous fulfillment … divine inheritance of All Good. The Wisdom of God is filling my consciousness … guiding me in every activity of my life. The Inspiration of God is quickening me to do that which is mine to do — & I gladly do it. I give myself over, complete, to the Will, Love [Manifestation], Wisdom & Inspiration of God. … I have total confidence, trust, certainty, & conviction in the Divine Process working in & through me now. … I consent to be used by this Holy Presence for Its eternal fulfillment. Joyful willingness … wholeness in every aspect of our lives. … my own natural unfolding … divine intention … easily … I … rejoice … miraculous …. Life. I give thanks. … I simply stay in the flow, rising higher & higher in the radiant light, seeing everything whole & perfect. … we relax & surrender … automatically released ….” … “angels are our inherent powers … the living energies of our consciousness … we are a law of love unto all … our own inner Supreme Court. … “maximum Self-Fulfillment … the doors to the angels are opened … we find true success in our world. … “ … serve only the Christ within … ‘I choose to be a success for Christ’s sake’ … divine purpose for e … manifest now.’” … God first in life … achievement of all that’s good in life. … I do with happy enthusiasm … I am overflowing with gratitude to God … I am thankful to be right where I am … right now, serving all … with love, joy, understanding … forgiveness. Recognizing my true worth … loving & prospering activity of the Holy Self within. … lavish abundance everywhere. I am peaceful, powerful … poised … I know who I am. … “”he Way to your good is singing hymns of gratitude … gratitude is The Way … Your gratitude … accepting your inheritance. Your gratitude … accepting … trusting … surrendering … the treasure house within.’ … basking in the warm light … overwhelming gratitude … wonder … great simplicity … God is impersonal Energy … all …. Only energy … the magnitude of this idea …. ‘ … “treasures of the kingdom within – that pulsating energy of bounty & wealth, the very spirit of infinite plenty indwelling — & feeling-knowing-being spiritually rich, moment by moment, day by day. The richness of consciousness … express as visible supply in the most appropriate manner. … appreciate beauty, quality, order, & harmony. … ‘ … royal … love … grace & beauty …loving … noble … deep unconditional love … a spirit of goodwill … attraction of financial supply.’ … consciousness … Allness of the Universe resides within … forever … through us. … the Divine Presence within me … is my supply …[I] accept the Law of Perfection as a personal & present reality … consciousness realizes its perfect wholeness as the Mind of God … our Divine Self …

from A Spiritual Philosophy for the New World by John Randolph Price: …”consciousness is cause” …”your Divine Nature … you … live in Heaven on Earth.” … “ … reborn into … dominion & mastery.” …”Individual Divinity … the only church is within … the only minister-teacher is the indwelling Spirit … only power on Earth is Consciousness … vertical living … specializing in … mastery.” … “Wayshowers … prepare us all for the Power & Glory of the Fifth Kingdom.” …’”I of myself can do nothing. The Spirit of God within me … is doing & being everything now.” …”abide in Spirit.” … contemplation of your Holy Self. … Wisdom … Intelligence … Life, Love, Joy & Power … incredibly creative energy radiating … within… Energy of God … perfect protection, peace, right relations, right action, divine order, divine guidance … all … flow … individualized Energy Field of Spirit … every detail of your life … absolutely perfect … your mind … on the inner invisible world of harmony, wholeness & omnipresent non-material supply … Energy, Life, Love, Light, Essence, Mind — the invisible world of Spirit.” …”The perfect relationship for me already exists in the Master Mind within … my Spirit as the Source … perfect.” … “… my Holy Self embodies all the abundance of the universe. I already have everything that I could possible desire right now. The I that I AM is the Spirit of Infinite Plenty in action & my role is to simply be aware of the prospering power of God taking place in & through me. I have turned over … & let the Law of Spirit manifest as my all-sufficiency.” … I AM is eternally whole & perfect.” … “I … focus on

the Presence of God I AM … the invisible Energy Field that is my divine Body … the Energy of all … I let Spirit ….” “… keeping my mind stayed on the Presence, Spirit … through my awareness to accomplish everything easily, effortlessly & creatively.” … “My Holy Self is omnipresent … embodies all peace, love, joy, right relations, right action … healing & harmonizing of all … This world is in God’s Hands & is no longer any of my concern.” … “… [I am] allowing spirit … to express as form & experience … through your awareness of the indwelling Presence all … are adjusted, harmonized, healed, prospered & protected.” … “I am a spiritual being living in a spiritual universe as a witness to the Activity of God … I’ve given everything to Spirit … now I have everything spiritually … & this spiritual energy is now revealing the Finished Kingdom. I am free at last!” … loving gratitude for all the good in your life … thankful … daily “counting your blessings” … a vibration of love & joy… gratitude … …. Works with the Law of Attraction to bring to you … “life more abundant….”’ … “you are living … on an Island of Light … already in perfect expression … your eternal shield.” …”spiritual net worth … vibrating … pulsating … transmuted through … realizations of Truth.” … “Consciousness … awareness, understanding … Christ … Cosmic Consciousness … Light-Substance-Energy of God flows … consciousness has power … we consciously cooperate with the Source within … awesomely beautiful … kingdoms sing together in joyful harmony … your immediate environment … divine order, peace & goodwill.” …”… youthful, strong … cooperative … love, joy, gratitude … contentment … constructive power … creative action for the greatest good of all.” …”you have an all-sufficiency of visible supply … people attracted into your immediate world are gentle, loving, & helpful in every way.” … “… you … moved into the perfect opportunity to experience joyfully fulfillment in your work. … glorious good surrounding you … a heavenly environment … AWARE of the Truth of your Being. … your true estate … the … Kingdom of God is a finished Kingdom already existing in the invisible … individual consciousness. … Kingdom of Harmony is the Real World, the New World … permanent ….” …’”God’s work is already completed … you with a priceless gift … Consciousness.”’ … God’s Kingdom is finished … “Very Good.” …”give the Kingdom & “all that the Father has” to the Holy High Self, the I Am of each individual being. … planted in consciousness … the Christ within.” …’”you will be resurrected as the Divine Being you are … your Divinity … your Identity.”’ … “accept our inheritance as Beings of Light … love-being, joy-filled, fun-loving, peace-giving, freedom-speaking … into Paradise on Earth. We are all on that path … consciously aware of the indwelling Christ Presence.” … remember the rebirth … rededication to the Master Self, the Christ within. …” In your mercy … tolerance & forgiveness toward others, you … receive the kindness of the universe … from all. …”You have already been given the Kingdom … the constant attitude of having … you … innocent … with God … God as Cause … you are … the sacred, holy Light of the World … the Truth of you … I am the Christ as you are … only one beloved Son … the Universal Christ whom we all share as the single Identity.” … “You are the only I AM … recognizing everyone everywhere as your Self, as the Holy One of God, & treat all as the Christ.” …”the Spirit of God in action through you … NOW! Christ, your Divine Identity, makes all things new. … Your entire world reflect[s] the Heaven it is in Truth. Christ, the Spirit of You, makes all thing new. Omnipotence … continuous … Divine Energy completely restores, renews, regenerates & rebuilds your life & world according to the Divine Reality … surrender … giving up every single day … hour-by-hour … you are safely & permanently in the Secret Place … the Presence within … you surrender to Spirit … always purifies … through consciousness… released to Spirit within …set you free … the Magnificent IAM that you are: “Behold … all things new.”

from Build me an Ark: a Life with Animals by Brenda Peterson: …”touched by this hand-fin is to feel chosen … even the slightest touch is a conscious choice.” …”altruism …your aumakua, the animal you belong to … the animal you’re meant to be with. Whom you must protect as a relative & who protects you.’”’ … “simple reciprocity – resonance. The tuning fork is struck, & I must respond.” …”Animals had carried me all my life. I was a crossover – carried along in the generous & instructive slipstream of other species.” …”in the generous & instructive slipstream of other species.” …”my bond with animals had shaped my character & revealed the world to me. At every turning point in my life an animal had mirrored or influenced my fate.” … “a life because of animals.” … benevolent eyes … I knew the crossover images in my mind … shared.” …”watching those grizzlies rear up on their hind legs& move together in bear embraces like giant dance partners.” …”They were caught up in something bigger than me, maybe even bigger than themselves.” …”bears dancing in the woods.” … “ceremony … of worship … as if to greet the tall, ancient trees.” …”bear-song … celebration … power & … joy …. Rapture … sheer pleasure … ecstasy of this magnitude … happiness.” …”trees …. The gracious, sky-touching Standing People….” …”the wolf is a most spiritual creature … an other-worldly or distinctly different energy … an electricity running from head to foot. Galvanized to the ground, I let the wolf skin’s primal strength run through my body … I felt profoundly protected.” …”’When humpbacks off Hawa’ii change the patterns of their songs, other humpbacks as far away as the Azores will make the same exact adaptations.” … ‘“that first humpback song is still vibrating inside me.”’ …”So alive, this song, & resonant,& we were just little tuning forks struck to vibrate alongside this exact & grand chord.” …”… mournful & triumphant, this song, moving & mesmerizing.” … “She dove beneath us where the male was still singing & for an eternal moment we, too, were part of that ancient love song.” … “a consciousness that was far beyond anything we could fathom.? …”I … a kind of human

conduit between mother & beluga calf … somehow have acoustically imprinted my own hand so that now I could pass on that mothering to this orphaned wild beluga?” … “dolphins do create acoustic images that are somehow attached to objects in the sea” … “… holograms chirps … whistles …:tingling sensations up my arms as she sounded me …’’I had in my own early years imprinted on animals as my extended family?” … “Some animals, like some people, find it is their fat to exist between the worlds & perhaps become bridges so that others may cross over. … [orphaned] beluga what … also an adopted daughter, who had found in … many mothers & fathers & siblings a way to survive her long loneliness.” … “little lovely. Live long.”’ … “interspecies love between human mother & beluga child? When we adopt other species & love them as our own, this is the best of all possible world … embracing more than our own kind … a living beluga buoy with whom we might better navigate our human world.” …I had looked deep into other animal eyes & still seen a soul shining there.” …”I prayed that this seal burial would be for all animals. In my own soul, I took them all back into the ark ….” …

from Change Your Thoughts …. Change Your Life by Dr. David Stoop: “ … the subconscious mind handles … 95% of what goes on.” … “When our conscious mind & our subconscious mind are in sync with each other, we’re finally working with all cylinders firing.” … [s]he could be angry with God while remaining in relationship.” … “They saw through the patterns of vibrations that stimulated their back!” …”a device call ‘BrainPort … delivers the same [visual] impulses through his tongue, which are then translated into images in his brain.” … ‘”we are God’s masterpiece’ Ephesians 2:10.” … “a renewed mind … live as if …” …”I am changing my personal belief system … I’m creating a new habit … consciously creating new pathways in my brain—new belief systems.” … “God’s Word in my heart….” …know “God’s pattern & seeking to build that into my life.” …”transformation … read it slowly … reread every word, pondering everything thought … memorizing … poignant & meaningful : … “”We have been forgiven an unpayable debt by God through the sacrifice of Jesus. How dare we not be forgiving of ourselves & others!” …”we’ve been forgiven so much by God.” …”great joy … rejoice … opportunity … God’s peace … God’s help … ‘Always be full of joy in the Lord.’ … … rejoice!” joy … true, honorable, right, pure, lovely, excellent, & worthy of praise.” …”God’s peace … gratitude & thankfulness … work for peace….”

from Christ in You by Anonymous: … one with all … your life … one unceasing prayer … poise … you … live always & only … on the plane of spirit, the only reality. … rest … You always are, & you always will be. … Rest … live in the eternal. … God is with you always & for ever. … you are safe at all time & in every lace … enter into your own now … spirit is omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient … spirit … the greatest … within … God has brought you to this time & place in order to carry out perfect laws. … your work shall stand for ever. … You are just where you are for the doing of God’s perfect work. … receptivity of heart & mind. All the good around you exists for ever … The good is the only real. … CHRIST IN YOU … the highest … returns to you a thousand-fold … richest … for all … HEAVEN is … where you are. You … enter heaven NOW. … ‘All is well.’ [2 King iv. 26; Hab. iii. 17-19] … We are just where we always have been – at home, alive for evermore [Rev. i. 18] … perpetual healing … rest … strong [Deut. Xxxi, 6] … all shall be redeemed … every individual conquest is a victory for the whole … Thank God … your glorious opportunity here & now. … Read the Sermon on the Lunt continually [Matt. V, vi, vii] … wait silently … you … reach the highest bliss … ‘This is my beloved, in whom I am well pleased. [Luke iii, 22] … union … complete … greatness … surrender … we are One … universal life … co-operate with God … OMNIPRESENCE … eternal youth … richer, riper youth … wonderous … within yourself, the accumulated good of all the ages. … divine consciousness … all is from within. Thank God for Jesus Christ. … You … open the floodgates by steady thanksgiving … God is with you. Complete harmony … God is working out His divine purpose in you. …

from The Constitution of the United States of America via the American Civil Liberties Union: http://www.ACLU.org … Justice … Tranquility … common defence … general Welfare … Blessings of Liberty …

from Daily Word 1-8000-669-7729; Oct. 23, 2008: “The abundance of God blesses & fulfills me. I am prospered … abundant supply … perfectly orchestrated harmony. The abundance of God blesses & fulfills beyond any desire or need. …I connect deeply with God’s abundance. Joy & happiness are the by-products of living my life in appreciation of all that is & all that is to be. I am prospered by the inexhaustible good that nourishes my mind, body & spirit. Living in the light of God’s abundance, I am fulfilled beyond measure.” Sept. 25, 2014…”I am made of God-substance. My destiny is always good. … always positive … I m a child of God. .. “I welcome my divine inheritance – all the riches of health & well-being.” Sept. 29, 2014: “I give generously, & I am abundantly blessed.” … “joyous sharing of prosperity gratitude.” … “I am grateful & joyful … abundant prosperity flows when I share openly & lovingly.” … “my wealth expands. I am grateful for the abundant blessings in my life. … “Give & it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap; for the measure you give will be the measure you get back.” Luke 6:38 Oct. 5, 2014: “Spirit inspires me in new ways.” … “I feel new energy … inspiration … in

quiet moments, I tap in to my Source, which fills me with divine ideas & encourages me in new directions. I am confident & excited….: … “I respond to Spirit’s call with confidence & joy.” … “Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? “ 2nd Corinthians 13:5 …”Oct. 8, 2014: “God is everywhere present, & I am safe.” … “ – the indwelling spirit of God is with me in every moment. I am protected & cared for through … this mighty power.” .. “I focus on my heart & claim my protection: God is everywhere present, guiding & leading me to safety. God fills me with courage & empowers me with good judgment & wisdom. Attuned to the loving presence of God, I act with calm confidence.” … “The beloved of the Lord rests in safety – the High God surrounds him all day long – the beloved rests between his shoulders.” Deuteronomy 33:12 … Oct. 7, 2014: “I bless others through prayer. … ‘ … always add “this or something better.” … Part of my prayer activity is to also let go.” … “… God is already making known what needs to be known & providing the right & perfect answers to everyone’s needs.” … “Pray for one another, so that you may be healed.” James 5:16. …”I am one with the stream of healing life. … I speak words of appreciation & encouragement to myself & to my body … my words positive & life-affirming. One with the stream of healing life, I am whole, vital & infused with energy.” … “your light shall break forth like the dawn, & your healing shall spring up quickly. Isaiah 58:8” … Oct. 11, 2014: I accept the activity of God in me & in my life. … “God in you.” … I wholeheartedly accept the blessing of grace — … God in me.” … “I accept myself as a worthy, capable, & lovable expression of God. I appreciate the love of God expressed through grace … always available to me.” Oct. 12, 2014: “I give & receive with ease & grace.” … “I experience the joy of serving others with generosity.” … “receiving graciously … I am fully present to receive the gift. I give the giver my full attention & express genuine gratitude for their thoughtfulness.” … “I practice the prosperity principle of circulation. As I give, I receive; & as I receive, I give. I am blessed.” … “Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above.” James 1:17 … “Oct. 17, 2014: I ask for what my heart desires & prepare to receive God’s good.” … “my heart’s greatest desire … my heart’s longing originates in God.” … “The key is to ask, seek, then patiently wait for clarity.” … “my right path … “delighting the Lord, & he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord … & he will act.” Psalm 37-4-5. … Oct. 29, 2014: “My gratitude opens the door to bountiful blessings. Praise & thanksgiving have the power to increase our experience of good. … ‘“praise & thanks … often open the door to amazing hospitality.”’ … “the power of thanksgiving …” … “I recognize the power of appreciation. I praise every part of my bod, & I am energized with greater health & vitality. I pay my bills with gratitude in the divine flow of giving & receiving. As I bless others, I unlock gthe door to greater love & harmony in my relationships. Through gratitude, I open wide the door to Spirit’s infinite bounty.” … “Celebrate with all the bounty that the Lord your God has given to you. Deuteronomy 26:11” … “Nov. 1, 2014: “I am strong of heart, courageous & triumphant.” …”I welcome each new challenge as an adventure, with a sense of gratitude & joy.” …”I thrive! Through Spirit within, I live triumphantly!” … “take courage:” Psalm 31:24” … “Nov. 13, 2014: “I am grateful for the grace of God’s ever-present unconditional love.” .. “I am centered in the unconditional love of God, I live in grace & Oneness.” … “I accept & celebrate the divine nature in me & in all.” Wed., Nov. 19, 2014: Today I put my heart into what I do, knowing that true success comes from the inside. I am blessed to be of service in the world!” … “Nov. 27, 2014: “In all things, I give thanks to God. I practice gratitude in all circumstances.” …”Gratitude is a way of life.” … “I become a vessel into which divine abundance flows. My greatest blessing is the Christ Presence with … For all of life’s blessings, I give thanks.” …”Nov. 29, 2014: I join in the glorious dance of Life. … All of life is a dance, a perfect choreography of Spirit … joy & delight … the indwelling Spirit … I sense the underlying rhythm of all living things. … my own breath & my own heart. .. I stay attuned to my inner music … with seamless grace. In sync with Spirit, I play my unique part in the dance of Life.” …”Dec. 18, 2014: I praise other & am blessed I return. … feel the glow of accomplishment & appreciation. Today I make a conscious effort to praise others. I point out their strengths & recognize their abilities. … Today I appreciate others … what a joy it is to be praised! Rejoice in the Lord …Psalm 33:1” Dec. 19, 2014: “I am one with the presence of God” … “… I relax, & Iet God fill my heart, mind, & soul. … I give my mind a rest & my heart full attention.” … “I relax & breathe deeply. I let go & trust God.” … “in everything by prayer & supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. Philippians 4:6.” Dec. 21, 2014: “I express pure joy … Joy begins in the depths of my soul, radiates through my heart, & shines out to the world.” … “the deepest joy comes when I connect to my Christ nature. … aligned with the indwelling Spirit, I am naturally curious & excited about everything & everyone I meet. I am enthusiastic about my life & eager to do all that is mine to do. I experience a contagious bliss & ease as I connect to my inner wellspring of gladness. The joy of Spirit in me is effervescent … sparkles through my eyes & adds a bounce to my step. Today I rejoice as God’s jubilation bursts forth from within me.” … “my joy may be in you, & that your joy may be complete.” John 15:11” Dec. 23, 2014: “As I graciously give & receive, I am blessed with abundant joy.” …”generosity arises within … the greatest present: What appears to be giving is also a process of receiving.” … “The abundance of the Universe works through this principle of giving & receiving … through gracious giving & receiving … I am blessed with abundance & inner joy.” … “ … a cheerful giver. 2nd Corinthians 9:7” “Dec. 27, 2014: I rest confidently in God. Relationships with our four-legged furry companions … spiritual touchstones.” … “a beloved lays it head on our should or lap, we feel their sincere & sacred trust. Their serenity inspires me to rest confidently in Christ within.” … “I am grateful.” … “I trust my life to Christ in me.” … “ …

true blessings.” … “I trust in you, O Lord; … ‘”You are my God.’ Psalm 31:14” …Dec. 30, 2014: “Through the power of God within me, my dream comes true & blesses others. A divine plan for good is at work in my life & in the Universe. My dream is a part of that plan. It comes from God – a vision & desire planted in my soul.” … “I use my faculty of imagination … I see myself achieving my dream. I allow myself to savor how it feels to see it accomplished.” …”I keep focused on my vision.” … “My heart’s desire propels me … my dream comes from God … I joyfully take my part in the divine plan & bless the world.” … “Jan. 8, 2015: I give thanks for my amazing body. … I consciously bless all my body … the living temple of my soul.” “Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul & health to the body. Proverbs 16:24” … Feb. 2, 2015: “…My mind, body, & soul are … ready for new vitality & radiance.” … “I am renewed.” … “I open myself to the light of God. As I lean into that light, I am invigorated, healed , & renewed. … new strength, new vision … a new sense of purpose. I am divinely guided … spring with joy & enthusiasm. As Spirit renews me, I radiate my light to everyone around me. I live in gratitude for the blessings of God for us all.” “The Lord will be your everlasting light, & your God will be your glory. Isaiah 60:19” Affirmation are positive statements of Truth. Each time we pray affirmatively, we are lifted into a consciousness of Oneness, calling forth the divine activity within us.” … JANUARY … Guidance: Spirit guides my every step. Healing: My body responds to my healing thoughts, & I radiate health.” … “Prosperity: I claim my inheritance of God’s unlimited abundance. World Peace: I am a presence of peace in the world.” … FEBRUARY: Inner Peace: My soul is centered in God. Guidance: Divine guidance is always with me. Healing: I trust in the healing power of God within. Prosperity: God’s good is ever present in my life. World Peace: I share my peace with the world. … Tues., Jan. 19, 2010: “I release & allow God magnificence to flow through me.” …Let go, let God.” … “releasing … I allow divine wisdom … freely within me. Let go, let God …going to the Source. …go within … In the silence … answers … surface easily. Miracles occur. … allow divine guidance .. wisdom of God within me. … I … do … the will of him who sent me. – John 5:30.”…:Jan. 26, 2010: “Surprise … I am open to unexpected blessings. … gift … blessing. I am open to life’s surprises … I release any expectations … light … love of God fill me … treasures … surprise blesses me … unexpected good … your treasure is [Eternal Divine Christ-Light Presence.” …Thur., Dec. 17, 2009: “Abundance I am blessed beyond measure. … “beauty … enjoy … I am nourished, body & soul .. enfolded in the love of God. … all that I have to give. I count my blessings … I am grateful for the abundant good in my life. … I am blessed. … such abundance … beyond measure. – Genesis 41:49.” Sat., Jan. 30, 2010 God is within me & around me. I am safe wherever I go. … protected … provided for … wisdom of God … allow … infinite intelligence to guide & guard my steps. … indwelling presence … God is present in every cell of my being, in every moment of my day. … ‘”Thank You, God,”’ is all I need to established peace of mind & heart.” … Fri., Nov. 6, 2009 I am blessed by the goodness of God. … “Prosperity manifests in my life … I count my blessings … God’s goodness is everywhere. I give thanks … I focus on my blessings …. … The more I look for things to be grateful for, the more blessings I find. … giving thanks, I am … as I appreciate all of God’s blessings & dwell in abundance & contentment, even more goodness comes my way. … to all those who have, more will be given. – Luke 19:26 … “Mon., Nov. 9, 2009 My spirit soars as I let go & trust God. … exhilaration … excitement … soar … with complete trust. I let go … God is with me & all is well! Letting go of fear is liberating. … I let go & trust God … God’s perfect expression within me & in all … all is well. … God is in charge … I am being divinely guided & blessed. Trust in the Lord forever. – Isaiah 26:4” … Sun., Dec. 25, 2009: I am open to abundance & prospered in every way. … [I] behold the blessings of an abundant universe, my heart thrills to God’s provision. … thanksgiving … I am grateful for loving relationships, supportive … creative [ways to express] my own God-given gifts. … I open to even greater prosperity & fulfillment. My appreciation for God’s blessings grows … Your heart shall thrill & rejoice … abundance …. Brought to you. – Isaiah 60:5.” … “ … I gently let go & relax into a conscious awareness that the Christ presence is active in me …. ‘”Child of Light, I bless you! … I see myself & others as spiritually perfect beings. Focusing on the highest good, I see us as peaceful & abundant. … the Christ essence within every person. … Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you & that you may be in good health, just as it is well with your soul. – 3 John 1:2” … “Wed., Aug. 5, 2009 I am attuned to the goodness of God. Enjoying … laughter … blessings …. Pleasures … the abundant gifts from God … enrich my life’s experience. Gratitude invites even more good into my life. I thank God for the blessings of reaching a goal, sharing a friendship, seeing a sunrise,. I feel deep appreciation … I acknowledge my blessings … I open my awareness to the goodness of God all around me. Truly I am blessed beyond measure. Take delight in the Lord, & he will give you the desires of your heart. – Psalm 37:4: … Tues., Aug. 11, 2009: “Thank you, God for Your grace. Dear God, Your grace transforms my consciousness. … Your presence within … I am healed & whole. … wisdom … Your light … Your love supporting me. Your grace blesses me abundantly & completely. … uplifted & transformed by Your loving, healing presence. Thank You, God, for Your grace … all is well …” …“glory … glory … grace & truth. – John 1:14 “Mon., July 6, 2009: Wherever I am, God is, & all is well.” … “order … harmony … all is well. … perfection … I am in the right place at the right time. … “ [am] blessed with God’s goodness. With gratitude, I affirm: “Wherever I am, God is, & all is well.”

Various “grouping” of various roles for a variety of organizations:

Member: Community Board of the Austin-based Lower Colorado River Authority, Public Relations Society of Austin & TX Society of Public Relations

a Founding member, endowment creator & Board Member, Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Assoc. of Austin

Treasurer, Pet Helpers in Austin

Winner, TX Mental Health Mental Retardation Agency‘s Most Creative Volunteer Project: recruiting Austin State School clients to walk dogs (for two years) in near-by Leander, TX, at the local dog shelter (& then stopping at the near-by Dairy Queen afterwards — to treat our faithful, enthusiastic, TX MHMR volunteers — the process got trickier when we included men clients — because the male volunteers wanted to operate Dairy Queen ice cream machines after the dog-walking volunteer work.

Internship Placement coordinator for UT Austin Chapter of Women in Communications

Founder, Lambda Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at TX Tech Univ. — after 40-year efforts by PBK faculty

Pres., Phi Beta Kappa of W. TX & E. New Mexico & founder of several Lubbock Community Foundation endowments to support PBK community-enrichment programs & events

Fun times as a mascot at community events: Ready Teddy, the Emergency Medical Society’s bear-a-medic: 1st time at the Houston Astrodome with baseball player Craig Biggio & a darling baby who found Craig as irresistible as I did!

Alice in Wonderland charter for an Austin-based, non-profit charity-store event, founded by a staffer of the tiny, but prestigious TX Legislative Board; Reading Dog at TX Tech Univ., doing the special footwork for the dance of Wiley, the Crab during the College for Texans Campaign

One of my most favorite volunteer activities has been to nominate deserving people for awards: e.g., Lynn Denton: TX Gov. Volunteer of the Year Award; Margarita Amaro, Dodge City Lions Club Volunteer of the Year Award; & to help job-seekers have an all-bases-loaded, home-run resume — whenever they were job hunting.