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Greatness is not a destination, but a journey. What do you do for your family, career or community that you’re most proud of?
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I have, for the last five years, run an organic produce co-op.  It's an offshoot of a much larger co-op, so I don't have to do it all.  But I have persistently done my piece since October of 2003.  I get up at 5:37am (yes, 5:37), drive downtown, help unload a truck and figure math and get stuff set up for the big co-op to open by 9am, then pull shares for my suburban location, get them in the car and drive over to that location to set up and we're (hopefully) open by  11.  And that's when the real happy gets to happen--a day when my face might really hurt from smiling 'too much', but those smiles are 99% of the time entirely genuine.  I get to share random facts and hints, build community and be a help in some way.  My kids really don't remember a time when we weren't involved, and they still do the take-down in the evening and are all abut such strange comments as "The parsley smells really fresh today".

For my family--I don't know--the obvious answer is something about cooking.  I'm pretty damned good, and I can be pretty consistent.  But sometimes I'm also pretty lazy.  I'll never be June Cleaver--I'm better described as "Martha Stewart on crack"...ok, so apparently I had embraced the term by the time I made the meat cake with the bacon florets... (I can also tell you many things at which I am not great.)

Career...it is still very much in development.  I'm still trying to develop the patience and tact to truly be a non-anxious presence and just let things happen.  It would be much easier to say what I think...but that wouldn't get me very far.  I'm getting pretty good at finding the lessons to be learned all over.

I'm also great at napping.  I'm not sure that's great for the world or my family or whatever, but I am a champion.  there is no time that isn't ripe to be picked for a nap.  There are very few places that won't work--ok, trash heap maybe.  Nuclear testing site, likely.  But I can nap standing up in the shower.  i can take a nap followed by another nap.  I have been known to check to see if something 'exciting' is happening and shrug and nap again..even if it is exciting. 

I'm sure I have other habits I've quite forgotten, but woot, 10 minutes is up.