This is the landscape of my childhood as it looks today. Changed and still beautiful. Because cows no longer graze here, brush grew up. Beaver dams created land where there was once water. Stone walls that marked the way when I was a child now decorate homes far away.
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Change isn't the enemy.
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I think back to the options I had for putting my ideas and work into the world 20 years ago: through magazines and then a book. I had to create an entire book and find a publisher and wait 18 months to see my work in print back then.
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That was before technology made building one's own teaching platform easy and affordable, made it possible to nimbly express your voice and ideas–your way, made it possible to find your tribe.
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Online teaching technology means ideas are no longer stuck in an old binder holding the draft of the book you never sold. I have one of those: it was all about creating parties with children as a way for them to learn creativity and budgeting and production skills. Back in 2001, I could only envision this project in a book, and I never got a publisher. I never even finished it.
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Now it's 2018, and–if that were my passion today–you can bet I'd be putting up website and making an online class, something I did with my love of teaching scrapbook design in 2007, and then with my love of course building in 2016. 🔽
This “landscape” change has been good for me.
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What “landscapes” have you seen change–and have they created opportunity? What will you do with that opportunity?
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