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Thursday, 15 February 07 :: blessed and released.

while i was working at LEAD i always enjoyed listening to the then development director s bless and release things she had been working diligently on. she knew that she had done the best job she could on the particular thing, project, recruiting of donors, etc, and now it was up to the universe to do its duty. she no longer had control and she knew she needed to turn her focus to the next very important task or tasks.

i just submitted my first two conference proposals. they got submitted to AECT, the flagship conference for our particular niche of education. i've been working on the proposal for my work for about 2 weeks on and off, another one i only had 1.5 days to work on. to get accepted at this point in my career will be a big boost for me, but i no longer have control over it.

as i hit the submit button i did just what i had heard s do many many times. i blessed and released them. it is no longer up to me, it is up to others, and i have other just as important tasks to take on.

posted by brooke at February 15, 2007 12:58 PM

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i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.

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