Hippie-dom!

It has been driven home to me recently that I am such a hippie! And I love it! Case in point: At age 20, I am attending massage therapy school to learn both something I am gifted at and also a marketable skill so I can afford to learn about my some other passions. Things like home birth/breastfeeding/midwifery and related topics, acupuncture, herbalism, self-sufficiency, gardening, food storage, pottery, spa treatments, biology, relaxation, meditation, health by choice not chance, nutrition, communication, people, geology, and taking care of what God has given me. Just to name a few.
I would love to learn how to knit/crochet more than the scarves and beanie hats I know right now. I want to experiment with making my own bread out of more than just wheat flour. There are lots of different types of flour (oat, corn, bean, nut, and buckwheat all spring to mind) that could make all sorts of interesting types of bread.
There are so many things to learn about! Right now, I am reading a book about the facts of modern obstetrics (Pushed, by Jennifer Block). On my reading to-do list is “The Widow Cliquot,” which is about the woman who wrested control of her late husband’s champagne company in the early 19th century and became such a pivitol figure that she is known as “La Veuve” or “The Widow” in France today. Also on the list are “Saying no to vaccines” and “Fashion since 1900.”There is also one about the uses for human cadavers that I want to find. Eclectic? Without a doubt. Bizarre? Possibly, depending on how conventional your personal opinions are. Fascinating? Absolutely. I love learning about all sorts of crazy stuff. That is why I am here!
More importantly, I want to help people understand how much potential they have and how to use it. I want to be the kind of person people automatically trust. To borrow a quote by someone I can’t remember, I want to “live in such a way that people who do not know God come to know Him because they know me.”