4/16/10
Dear Folks and Friends,
If you attended the first live face-to-face Workshop sponsored by FOGGY BOTTOM FARM--PRINCETON, a Non Profit of The Ingathering Circle, Inc. on April 11, you were in for a really big treat with a Workshop presented by Karen! If you were not fortunate enough to attend, “not to worry!” More are coming, both on-line and in real time.
Karen was wonderful, as always, and presented her workshop called THE PROSPERITY REVOLUTION. Those attending interacted well with Karen and one another, each receiving a great deal of personal benefit concerning their own very worthwhile projects. To make this Workshop happen, Karen and her infant daughter, Ayelet, came in from Houston, and Karen’s friend, Aaron came in from Minneapolis. This took some doing, but everything worked our extremely well!
There was much to cover, and Karen covered it very well, easily personalizing the material for those who asked questions.
In my own experience, and I am a product of THE PROSPERITY REVOLUTION Workshop, I feel the experience has helped me greatly. As always, a workshop with Karen is a new and profound adventure! I have found Karen’s workshops a major force in motivation and concentration on realizing my dream project, FOGGY BOTTOM FARM become real. What makes this so, for me, is her intense ability to inspire one with her non-theological spirituality, and with this spirituality, I never feel alone. This is and has been a major help for me. Our FOGGY BOTTOM FARM website will soon provide online classes and workshops to create the infrastructure of a Community that seeks interaction with teens, lifelong learners, families and people with special needs and concerns* within and between three major Spheres of Interest. These Spheres of Interest are: Personal Growth, Fine Art and Fine Craft, and Holistic Living. We feel that motivating and nurturing people to create a balanced life within, among and between a variety of aspects of these three Spheres of Interest will enable them to live the most pleasant, creative and healthy lives they can possibly lead. This, in short, is our Vision and our Mission. Please see our website, created by Karen, at foggybottomfarm.org to discover more about us.
After THE PROSPERITY REVOLUTION Workshop, another true and real-life adventure began. Karen’s friend Aaron her infant daughter, Ayelet, and I actually went up to look over Foggy Bottom Farm with our Project’s engineer, Bob. On the way up, on one of the quaint back roads of Pennsylvania, there was a sign that said “Bridge Out---Detour.” So we detoured, not knowing where we were or where we were going, though we knew where we wanted to go. We were traveling a route that I had never traveled before, so I was of totally no help. In addition, it was now about 11PM and Ayelet was getting tired, Aaron was getting “most unhappy” with not knowing where we were or where we were going, and I, sometimes called “Sir Mik the Navigator,” was of totally no help. To top all that off, we discovered there was a problem with the brakes on my car, so that when they were applied, the whole front end of the car shook---something that had never happened before. Finally, we recognized the road we were supposed to be on and followed it into the place where we were going to stay, in Wellsboro, PA. Later on, when I described the experience as “We took the scenic route!,” Aaron quickly said “But it was dark.” I told him “not to get technical.”
The next day, Monday, after a good country breakfast, we met with Bob at his office and he got all of us into his diesel truck and off we went to look high and low, but mostly high, over the 155 acres of FOGGY BOTTOM FARM. This was an exhilarating experience. Aaron, who is a multiple award winning Green architect, looked over the Farm and started to come up with some really wonderful and creative ideas of what could be accomplished there when we build. And building will happen!
Then, we went to look at the existing old house down on the lower end of the property. When I first went into the house, I immediately knew something was wrong. I heard water running, but could not tell where it was from. What had happened was that a water pipe had broken in one of he walls and the pump on the well was continuing to keep working. We found extensive water damage as well as a flooded basement. Our main thing with the house now is to determine what can/will be done with it. We have already started working on that, and we will persevere and are continuing to move forward!
By then it was time to return to Princeton, where Karen, Ayelet and Aaron had stayed before the Workshop so that they could return to Houston and Minneapolis. The adventure, however, continued. On the way back, the cooling system on my car exploded (after business hours, of course!) on Monday. After much doing we were able to rent a car and get back o Princeton late Monday evening. So now you understand why I could not write this blog before now
However, all this being as it may, we need to remember our mainstay “quotes” from FOGGY BOTTOM FARM:’’
“WE DON’T GIVE UP AND WE DON’T GIVE IN!!!”
and
“IF ONE WAY ‘DON’T’ WORK, ANOTHER WAY WILL---FIND IT AND DO IT!
Good things are happening. Please see our website for our free “Telesummit” Schedule for some fantastically interesting Presenters. Also, if you are interested in being a Presenter either on our website or live in Princeton this summer, please see our website, FoggyBottomFarm.org
Please note, there is a difference in how things will work for our paid Presenters on-line and our paid Presenters for our live face-to-face gatherings in Princeton this fall and winter.
Please call me for more information as soon as possible so we can get started working together!
In Peace,
Mik
Mik Rosenthal, Ed.D.
Founder and Executive Director,
Foggy Bottom Farm
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