What does a dream job look like?
When you've got to work, make it count!
I didn’t even know I was looking for a dream job.
My husband I recently relocated to California after I’d been in The Netherlands for 18 years (yes, that’s a long time). When I left for Amsterdam, I planned on being gone for three. Here’s the summary: Living there was great, mostly…. raised my kids, got married (I was widowed), and got live my dream with the non-profit I created. Then my husband decided to change careers and go after his dream - from tech to pilot! Let’s go!
So, after our youngest graduated high school, (and covid restrictions were less strict). We left and eventually settled in Long Beach. I needed a contracted job so that we could rent a place, get health insurance… etc. Since it had been nearly 20 years since I’d had an employer, I had little idea what I would be doing, and had very low expectations that I would land a job that ‘spoke to me’. Besides, it was my husbands turn to ‘live his dream’. Well, that’s what I told myself.
Then the Universe shifted, the heavens parted… and a new dream emerged!
After a year, I found myself accepting a job at Apricot Lane Farms as the Lead of their Farm School. It was clear that this was what I needed to be doing. It’s not so much that I am teaching, that’s not the dream. The dream is actually to build the dream of the Founder of the Farm - to have a school that is a model for alternative education in nature as the farm is a model for alternative farming.
I get to help others build their dreams!
Not only do I get to support my husband in building his dream of flying planes, I get to build the dream for the Farm school, partnering to create a model that shows us all how to live as part of the natural world.
Now, that is something I can get behind and do for a very very long time. 100% alignment with this dream!
This is why I am here.
I am developing the curriculum so that it mirrors the biodynamic principles that the farm upholds and implements so that they provide the most nutrient dense food possible. Not just that, but nurturing the whole person of the learners, and so much more (I’ll be writing about it here).
I want to share this journey as I know there are more people like me out there who desire to see nature more prevalent in our daily lives, and to bring up the next generation more aware and tuned in to the rhythms of the natural world. Leading in a way that brings out the best in others, focusing on what we want. This is the only way change really happens. I am ALL IN! Are you?
Join me and let’s expand these practices, rituals, rhythms with parents, teachers, leaders, sisters, brothers, aunties, and uncles.
I will share what I am doing, and how I see expanding these ideas and I’d love to hear from you. I am a novice in biodynamic farming and work on one of the best models in the US. That said, there is so much more to learn from indigenous practices, other farmers, nature lovers and artists. Did I mention that I do think beauty can save the world? I do. Nature is beauty and the more we unpack it, the more wondrous and amazing it feels to be alive - right?
