Reflections on My Travels 2023- A Travel in Time and Understanding
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by amy mondloch
1y ago
I have a basket in my living room that holds a collection of precious belongings; stones, sweetgrass, cedar, tobacco, scraps of cloth, and bits of fur, little memories from other adventures throughout my life and gifts from relatives who’ve since moved on. In that basket is a piece of concrete with splatterings of paint. I like to believe that it was once part of a peace symbol, but who knows. That paint could have said anything or been anything. I do know where it came from though. It was given to me many years ago when I worked at Camp Evelyn, a Girl Scout camp in southeastern Wisconsin, by ..read more
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Reflections on My Travels 2023- The Alps
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by amy mondloch
1y ago
I’ve loved mountains since I was a little girl living among the tiny waves of the glaciated region of Wisconsin. Hills tell us so much. They are the home of our ancestors, those giant stones that tell the stories of our past and the trees that reach to the skies to show us where we’re going. The creeks and rivers that run through sing the songs of life and remind us of who we are. It was a dream come true when I made my first trip to Appalachia as a ten year old. I went to Arkansas with my parents and cousin Terri. We visited a senior community where my parents would buy land in hopes of build ..read more
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Reflections on my Travels 2023– The First Days in Europe
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by amy mondloch
1y ago
It’s been just over a month now since I’ve gotten home from my trip in Europe. I’m a bit behind in putting my stories in writing, so it’s time to add to my blog and enjoy the chance to look back on the adventures a bit. I ended my role as Director of Solace Friends at the end December and left immediately after on my travels. I flew out of Madison on the 28th and landed in Frankfurt, Germany on the morning of December 29th. I was met at the airport by staff of Go Ahead Travel and Leslie and Kathy, two fellow travelers who would become new friends as we toured together over the next two weeks ..read more
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Thoughts On Being a Part of the Wisconsin Movement
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by amy mondloch
1y ago
It’s been twelve years now since thousands of angry, scared, and broken hearted Wisconsinites spent weeks camping out on the cold marble floors of our state capitol in an attempt to protect workers rights. While we didn’t win an immediate victory, we did change what organizing looked like in Wisconsin and throughout the US. I was the person that the Teaching Assistants Association (TAA) called on when they realized that what began as a small protest was going to become a massive event and had the possibility of becoming dangerous. They asked me to coordinate non-violence trainings. During the ..read more
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Standing on Top of the World
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by amy mondloch
1y ago
The trip to Mount Pilatus wasn’t a planned one. Our group was supposed to just have an afternoon off to relax and mill around the town of Lucerne, Switzerland. Spending the afternoon wandering about Lucerne would have been great, just sitting in a coffeeshop somewhere dreaming about visiting with Mark Twain swapping ideas as his writer’s block broke and he began to create the classic text “Huckleberry Finn.” What would hanging out with a mind like that do to someone’s writing skills? But anyway, it was a beautiful day and Lala, our tour director, had offered another option to us for the aftern ..read more
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Reflections on Visiting Dachau
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by amy mondloch
1y ago
It’s been just over a week since I wrapped up my wanderings of the streets and mountains of central Europe. The vacation, which I booked months ago when I’d been planning to move forward in a career providing housing to terminally ill homeless people, wound up being the transition point as my role at Solace Friends just ended and I leapt into the unknown. My last day with Solace Friends was December 28th, 2022. That was also the day I hopped on the plane to Frankfurt, Germany. There are a lot of stories and nearly 600 pictures from the two weeks that I spent on that tour bus with that amazing ..read more
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Blue Eyes Flashing and other words
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by amy mondloch
1y ago
I’ve been continuing to face an ongoing struggle with writer’s block. I strongly suspect a sort of fear of writing, a fear of what I might learn if I go to deep, but I have no choice. There are words that I need to share and they’ll be there inside me until I let them out. So, I am continuing to work on letting them out. Today I’m going back through old journals and finding bits and pieces to revise and share more publicly. The first piece has no title yet, but maybe I’ll call it Boots. It was written on 7-6-2000 on the shores of Lake Superior while on a walk around the big lake to protect the ..read more
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Changing One Thing
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by amy mondloch
1y ago
So, I’ve been trying to get back to my blog after several months away, but it seems I’m facing a mild case of writer’s block. Nothing is coming to mind. It’s just empty. There are no topics to write about there. What to do? Well, since it seems the key component to becoming a successful writer is writing, I just used the wonders of the internet and sought out a writing prompt. The one that drew me today was this. “If you could change one thing in the world, what would you change and why?” This is actually something I’ve had the chance to ponder quite a bit over the past thirty years or so as s ..read more
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Looking at Life’s Work
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by amy mondloch
1y ago
I was interviewing for a new job yesterday and was asked a question that while not totally unheard of was one I’d not heard often in job interviews that I’ve done either as the interviewer or the interviewee. I was asked how I identify myself or what I enjoy outside of my work life. What a wonderful question! Thank you for letting me know that you, as an employer, want to know me as a person that you value my work/life balance. I grew up on a farm. My parents both grew up on farms as did their parents and their parents before them. For years I used that as a reason or maybe an excuse to devote ..read more
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The Power of Paper and Pen
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by amy mondloch
1y ago
The key piece of becoming an author is writing, or so I am told. So, here I am writing. There are ideas that seem to be stuck somewhere deep in the muck of my brain and maybe even deeper in the mush of my heart and soul, but they are there- stuck. Meanwhile, I am digging through the layers and laying out what comes out in hopes that some of it finds value in the light of the page. It’s a good tool to understand and care for myself. I stepped away from my blog for a few months this year as I started a new job. The role that I took on in my workplace was a tough one, a young non-profit organizat ..read more
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