Sometimes there are twists in the road...things I wasn't expecting to find...sometimes beautiful views and sometimes unexpected obstacles. Life is an adventure. I kind of like the unexpected - it keeps things interesting.
I was not expecting to find someone along the way, but I met the surprise of my life last summer....and then didn't see him for quite awhile, but he reappeared on my life's road just a few months before my planned move to New Mexico. So I had to decide...which direction to take...the scenic road in good company, or mapquest it alone...one is simpler to gauge and the other has more twists and turns...but the journey is always more joyous when shared in good company.
A leg of the journey that I was not expecting to continue was my work in early intervention. Needless to say, I was given the opportunity to continue this leg of my journey as a bilingual service coordinator here in Albuquerque with Alta Mira, an NGO that works with children and adults with developmental disabilities. I find myself to be a reluctant social worker...drawn to the work by the people on the margins, not by the system or structure that places them there...
Perhaps the most surprising turn of events in this journey is the economic traffic jam that most likely will require me to delay my MA study at UNM until next fall...It's ironic that the very thing that has lead me to ABQ is the one thing I may have to wait for...Life is difficult to understand, but if it were easy it would be boring. I don't know where this will end, but I'm enjoying the view along the scenic route :)
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It is always the people on the margins who draw those of called to work with them. The structures are often the barriers we have to circumvent or bend to "work the system" (as one of my great social work professors suggested in the 1970s)on behalf of our clients. I've been doing this ever since. Your clients are blessed and you will continue to be shown where you are to be and what you are to do. Thinking of you and missing you here. Love, Barb
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