{"id":2,"date":"2009-08-11T20:32:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T02:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2011-02-02T11:38:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T19:38:33","slug":"about-lynn-and-the-name-gray-wolf","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/about-lynn-and-the-name-gray-wolf","title":{"rendered":"About Lynn and the name Gray Wolf"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"   <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

About Me<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I've always been interested in a million things – often many of them at the same time. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I'd learned to live with this fact about myself although comments from others often made me stop and wonder if I was an alien or something was "wrong" with me. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I've collected degrees [BA,AM, PhD, and JD] and worked as an attorney, kindergarten teacher, 5 and 10 cent store clerk, college professor, therapist, evaluator, researcher, ski instructor, etc. and left them all behind to move onto other adventures.  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I've moved around a lot too – coast to coast and found a religion that fit me better than the one I was raised in.<\/span> [Then there are all the hobbies, sports and musical interests that I engage in.]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I don't do well working for others for long periods of time so no "real" full time job lasted more than two years.  Self-employment seemed the only path and that's what I have been doing most of my adult life.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A few years ago, Mara<\/a>, a friend I met on Twitter<\/a> came to Portland and in the course of our conversations she figured I was a scanner – a term I never heard before in the context of a type-of-person.<\/span> It intrigued me and I started reading about scanners. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Once I read Refuse to Choose<\/em> by Barbara Sher – I had one of those "oh my g-d; that's me" moments!  <\/span> It had a very profound effect on me as some internal thought mechanisms made a rapid shift.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This is still a quite novel feeling and I haven't really analyzed it – I'm just happy to finally know I am not an alien nor is there anything "wrong" with me – I'm a Sybil-type scanner.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

And instead of bemoaning the fact that I had not known this for the last 50-60 years – I was able to say "Hey – I am so glad I learned this before I turned 70!"<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Sybils start a lot of projects, are surrounded by creative clutter [interspersed with bouts of organizing it] and can leave unfinished projects unfinished. <\/span> [Yup that's me.]<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

In my midish 60's I found a way to combine most of my interests under an umbrella business where my many thoughts, ideas and areas of expertise could find a home and find each other.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I love to write, take pictures, make videos, talk, read, teach, offer advice and be a fun person.  Gray Wolf Productions<\/a> allows me to do this. <\/span> And now that I know it's really ok to have all these interests – I feel and am so much more productive!  A major "something" has been lifted from my soul\/psyche\/brain.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\" <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

About the Name<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Gray Wolf Productions<\/span><\/span><\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

[photo of Ethel Gray, my mother] <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Gray Wolf<\/span><\/em><\/span> has meaning for me on many levels.  My heritage contains Native American ancestry,  I have always loved wolves, Gray is a family name and gray is what happens when we age [I color mine] and the company will produce informative materials.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

As the name includes so much of me, it seemed the perfect name for a company that includes so much of me.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Again – let me welcome you to Parenting 201, a division of Gray Wolf Productions<\/span>, my "scanner umbrella."<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Look around the site and start scanning horizons with me…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

and with your children<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n
I am a part of all that I have met;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Gleams that untravell’d world, whose margin fades<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
For ever and for ever when I move.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

\n<\/span><\/div>\n
Come, my friends.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Push off, and sitting well in order smite<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Of all the western stars, until I die.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

\n<\/span><\/div>\n
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

\n<\/span><\/div>\n
Alfred Lord Tennyson – Ulysses<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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