I help people make better
connections to themselves. To
figure out what they know or don’t
know, want or don’t want.
Naming their own Adventure.

There will be more about this as I complete this semester of class work. A lot has been “revealed” over the last few months and I am just discovering the truths of it. Meanwhile, I’m making this part of the Adventure more grounded by anchoring this site with these insights.

I did a “brand workbook” with some resistance. I understand that “brand” is not a burned in mark but is a way for me to consider more about where I am now. What have I discovered about the journey that has brought me here and what do I want to say about it? WithOneThread has been alive for twenty-five years now. Old enough to have some idea of who it wants to be. It has spent time becoming educated and has its “degrees”. It has chosen a direction that satisfies and offers enough challenge to be considered good to go with. It has found support and company and inspiration. So, what is it? That is what the Brand Workbook has helped me articulate.

Having to put my experiences of over seventy years into only a few words was an interesting part of the process. Only a few words? And then to commit to the ones that are true!

I have not verbalized the Magic component, yet that is the part that has been most true. It has taken years for me to find the real world support for how that manifests. It is not enough for the Los Rios Community College district to allow their Meyers-Briggs assessment to declare me “psychic”. I did the work of decoding that into the life-long experience of following my intuition. With that, I recognized, eventually, why I never felt confident with my performances. I did not do them! I just followed my impulses and they turned out. That is even more true for my being where I am now, and why I feel committed to the statements in the Guide.

However, some of the process of developing the site still has me stymied.

I have not really considered why I chose the colors I have. I don’t consider myself a “color” person. The drawing I prefer doing is line with pen and ink. I use color when it shows up in what I am drawing. I tend to limit my wardrobe to two or three colors. Color seems to confuse me, so I kept the palette limited to what I have already used in my Little Me image. Plus what might be considered a skin color if the image was properly colored. OH, and the hair. As it turns out, I have a Zorn palette: a bit more limited than a CMYK palette which suits me just fine.

As for the brand workbook itself, definitely glad I had that as a guide. I took the website design class because I want to use this site as something more than just a place for me to show off. That is not really who I am or how I move in the world. I also don’t have a lot that I want to make and sell. The workbook helped me declutter all the other ideas I might have had to organize just what it is I am actually doing. I now have a better map –and no, I still shy away from reading maps before I go– for where the thread is taking me. Or where it has let me so far.

This original mood board is still valid. Tango, the labyrinth, costuming and pattern design, some kind of hand work, and being part of a maker community while staying aligned with life-long-learning for myself and for others. All of this has been part of me in one form or another and is still bringing me new insights and metaphors. This is the process I expect to be sharing here.

Meanwhile, there is still the technical parts of presenting myself online to get better at. I have chosen to be present online because that is where I found my grandmother. She did not put herself there. She published herself as a poet and so left something for others to follow. And post.