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My mother has told me that I was born dreaming of leaving. Maybe she was right.

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My first job was with a specialized training program through Gannet Newspapers. They offered me any location I waned, so I chose the furthest away from my home in Georgia and landed in Palm Springs, CA. A that age, I didn't even know that there was an actual desert in the U.S. I thought I was heading towards palm trees with ocean views. I did get palm trees. And Joshua Tree, And roadrunners. And sandstorms. I also wasn't far from Los Angeles, Phoenix, Sedona, Las Veges, the Grand Canyon, the Mexican Border -- so I saw them all. I was 22.

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It would be another ten years before my job afforded me the opportunity to travel abroad. I landed outside of Santa Cruz, Bolivia covering a story of a local physician who had started a mission organization that built a boy's home in a country where the boys are often left to fend for themselves at very young ages. I fell in love with history and culture and mission work. It would later be my daughter, at the age of 12, who grabbed my hand and said she wanted to do mission work like her mama. Her fierce determination would take us, for the next 4 years, to an annual service opportunity at an orphange in Honduras.

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I continued in the corporate world, always with one eye on the horizon. I dreamed of leaving. But I never knew when or how or what if. Until I began thinking of another story my mother always told me .... She said that my life was always happier when I ran in a direction without knowing all the answers -- when I stopped living in the box of expectation. College, the desert, later the mountains ... these were all things I did without letting the questions get in the way.

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So, I stopped questioning and I jumped all in. I sold my house, I left the corporate world, and I am off. If you are not pursuing your dreams today, when do you plan to start? The support, love and encouragement I have received from friends and family to start my adventure has been humbling. I have no idea what lies ahead.

I invite you to find out with me. 

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