Collective Visioning

acknowledgments

FIRST, I have to begin with family because without them I could have done none of this. To Angela Barth, my best friend and soulmate, who has supported me throughout this process by taking care of all my needs from cleaning to laundry, making sure I ate, and supporting and always believing in me when I doubted I could do this. To my sister, Renae, who volunteered to help type up handwritten stories, organize my office, and do other administrative tasks, and to my friend and coworker Connie Fitzgerald, who manages Spirit in Action and who supported my writing process and my health and took up the slack during my absence from work.

As I mentioned earlier, I often use “we” or “us” instead of “I” or “me” in this book. That is because ...