"Radiating Grace"

                                            Radiating Grace                                             "A Sense Of Life"                                             by Desiree de Angelise                                                                     I am offering my campus/community program created many years ago for you with its ideas to consider offering in your community or area Now. "A Sense Of Life" was a campus/community program which I created partially to bring together the campus and community which was very split at the time, and partially to have a group, a Steering Committee,  working together offering plans and solutions to what was happening in the community, including suicides, addictions etc.   In addition to those goals, since I had created "brown bag" programs at the campus, I also wanted to prove that with creative innovative ideas etc., grants and big funding was not necessary!    ASOL funding was requested to

                                                                Radiating Grace                                                     "Things Take Longer than They Do" When I was working in a "Mainstream Pilot Program" the comment "Things take longer than they do" came from the Administrator of the program. Upon hearing it, as a student of philosophy etc., I thought "What?" "How can that be? " However, after working with a federal grant, at a state university, and with that university itself, I decided that "Things take longer than they do" was a brilliant comment!  The red tape, expectations, and everything involved in a "pilot" program took much longer than was predicted or projected. I also discovered in my own life how true that comment was in many ways.  We had purchased a geodesic dome home connected to a small cabin type home and worked at putting the two together.  Contractors were often late and not