Exploring the margins
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Greetings!,
 In this month when we set aside a day to give thanks, my heart teems with gratitude. Thank you for allowing Your Next Quest Chronicles into your lives. For letting me introduce you to a different Quest Maker each month, someone like ourselves, who has set out on her own personal journey. For letting me share my thoughts in my essays and in the Journal Sparkers, as I - like you - follow my own quest one next step at a time.For me, it's all about connections. Everything. Like a spider weaving its web, one filament at a time, each strand connects to the other. Like a community, weaving itself together with strands of sustenance, of support and friendship. Like the community that has grown in Central Vermont around a place called Green Mountain Girls' Farm in Northfield. It is where this month's Quest Maker Mari Omland and her partner Laura Olsen have set down roots, opening their hearts to the earth, to their animals, to their neighbors. In a mid-life move, they sought community. With the farm, they've created it. Light has to illuminate a web in just the right way for its tensile gossamer to be made visible. So too, in our own lives. Sometimes we don't know where connections will lead us. We may learn that who we are or what our strengths are may exist outside of all our expectations - in the margins between the filaments. For Mari, it's in those margins where the richness of our quest waits to be explored. It's where the wellspring of creativity and ambiguity meet. PS. Mari's favorite flower is the purple cone flower.
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Meet Quest Maker Mari Omland
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 In her early 40s, several young friends of Mari Omland's died and she was laid off from her high-powered job in D.C. Mari likens these life events to throwing a stick into a moving bicycle tire. It made her stop. That's when she reassessed what mattered to her and made the move home to Vermont and life as a farmer. At Green Mountain Girls' Farm in the heart of Central Vermont, she and Laura, her life partner, raise healthy (organic and sustainable), happy (free range and loved) animals and vegetables. In addition to raising tasty, organic food and meat, their Barn Guesthouse provides a respite for guests where they can experience a bit of farm life, or just relax and have fun on the trails and in the pond.
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November Journal Sparker
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With its questions and exercises, a Journal Sparker aims to spark reflection or inspire you to take the next step on your journey to where you want to be.
 We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
-Walt Disney
In this month's Journal Sparker, you'll find resources to prime your curiosity as well as explore what next steps to take on our own journey.
We've created a cover sheet if you'd like to begin a Journal Sparkers binder.
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| Do you know a Quest Maker, a woman who has realized her dream?
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Do you know a woman in her 40s or beyond who declared "now it's my
time," and realized her dream, just like Louise Grasmere has done? Perhaps she's a friend, a family member, an
acquaintance. Perhaps it's you! If she or you would like to considered for an upcoming Quest Maker column in the Chronicles, please send me an email with a brief description and the best way to reach her.
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| Need an idea spark to ignite your own quest?
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Have you decided that now it's your time to claim your own realm and undertake your own voyage of discovery? Except you're not exactly sure how (or even where) to start?You may need an Idea Sparker to help you figure it out. That's where I can help. Learn more about me at www.yournextquest.com.Take the next step with a free 15-minute consultation with me. We'll talk about where you are now and where you want to be and how I can help you get there. Learn more about how I can help you at www.yournextquest.com. Start your journey now by contacting me at info@yournextquest.com or by calling me at 781.583.7185.Together, we can start you on the journey to where you want to be!
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