By Lucy M. Pritchett
The maxim goes that ii wrongs don't brand a right, but inward this Turning Point, it turns out that ii negatives did brand a positive.
Just inquire Kathy Morris, who on the same solar daytime inward 2003 received ii telephone calls: i from her doc telling her that she had thorax cancer as well as i from her boss telling her that the executive position she held at a local banking concern had been eliminated.
“Those disturbing telephone calls turned out to hold out blessings,” says Kathy, who is forthwith manager of the Louisville Nature Center, which is situated on 10 acres as well as adjoins the 41-acre Beargrass Creek State Nature Preserve with its hiking trails. “Some people told me to hurry as well as uncovering roughly other job, but I thought, ‘No, I'm going to merely sit down dorsum as well as mean value virtually things.’”
Kathy says she had already been considering leaving her corporate job, which she admits merely didn’t jibe her whatever longer. “I didn't experience correct inward that world. There had been then many changes late as well as a succession of novel bosses. I had been seeing a career counselor hoping to figure out what changes I could make.”
As sometimes happens, life made those changes for her.
Over the adjacent 4 years she got involved inward many things, she says. “I took classes as well as became a Jefferson County Master Gardener, as well as equally constituent of its community service requirement, volunteered with Air Pollution Control.” And for a patch she owned a gift store inward Jeffersontown that sold local crafts.
“By 2006, I had been on the board hither at the Nature Center for 3 years. I wrote a proposal offering to serve equally interim manager patch they searched for a novel one. Eleven years after I am however here.
“I savor beingness outdoors. I savor earthworks inward the dirt. I dear the people that I operate with — an eclectic mix of creative, passionate, as well as amazing volunteers as well as co-workers.”
The middle has 3 part-time employees along with a handful of educators who run schoolhouse programs, summertime camps, as well as adult educational activity programs such equally its Owl Prowls inward the fall.
So, Kathy traded inward her corporate conform as well as sterile constituent for a conduct chances to operate alongside birds, bees, as well as blooms. The Nature Center, at 3745 Illinois Avenue nigh the Louisville Zoo, is the house to become for a placidity let on from urban substance traffic as well as busyness, she says. “It’s a house where i tin stroll along the brick pathways of the Sensory Garden as well as odour the lavender, behave on the fuzzy leaves of the Lamb’s Ears, as well as savor the audio of the pond’s modest waterfall.” Two pelting gardens are filled with native plants. The aeroplane blind is merely the house to savor a lonely loving cup of forenoon java where you lot are certain to hold out entertained past times feathered visitors having breakfast at the feeders, she added.
“Working hither fits my personality,” Kathy says. “Sometimes you lot bring to halt as well as mean value virtually things as well as non merely rush into something. After those ii telephone calls that day, I idea it best to tedious down, pay attention, as well as run into what comes. Things bring a agency of working out the agency they are supposed to.” Sumber http://www.todayswomannow.com/
The maxim goes that ii wrongs don't brand a right, but inward this Turning Point, it turns out that ii negatives did brand a positive.
Just inquire Kathy Morris, who on the same solar daytime inward 2003 received ii telephone calls: i from her doc telling her that she had thorax cancer as well as i from her boss telling her that the executive position she held at a local banking concern had been eliminated.
“Those disturbing telephone calls turned out to hold out blessings,” says Kathy, who is forthwith manager of the Louisville Nature Center, which is situated on 10 acres as well as adjoins the 41-acre Beargrass Creek State Nature Preserve with its hiking trails. “Some people told me to hurry as well as uncovering roughly other job, but I thought, ‘No, I'm going to merely sit down dorsum as well as mean value virtually things.’”
Kathy says she had already been considering leaving her corporate job, which she admits merely didn’t jibe her whatever longer. “I didn't experience correct inward that world. There had been then many changes late as well as a succession of novel bosses. I had been seeing a career counselor hoping to figure out what changes I could make.”
As sometimes happens, life made those changes for her.
Over the adjacent 4 years she got involved inward many things, she says. “I took classes as well as became a Jefferson County Master Gardener, as well as equally constituent of its community service requirement, volunteered with Air Pollution Control.” And for a patch she owned a gift store inward Jeffersontown that sold local crafts.
“By 2006, I had been on the board hither at the Nature Center for 3 years. I wrote a proposal offering to serve equally interim manager patch they searched for a novel one. Eleven years after I am however here.
“I savor beingness outdoors. I savor earthworks inward the dirt. I dear the people that I operate with — an eclectic mix of creative, passionate, as well as amazing volunteers as well as co-workers.”
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| This surface area has a aeroplane sanctuary with over a dozen feeders, hiking trails, ponds, as well as wildflowers. Photos past times Patti Hartog |
The middle has 3 part-time employees along with a handful of educators who run schoolhouse programs, summertime camps, as well as adult educational activity programs such equally its Owl Prowls inward the fall.
So, Kathy traded inward her corporate conform as well as sterile constituent for a conduct chances to operate alongside birds, bees, as well as blooms. The Nature Center, at 3745 Illinois Avenue nigh the Louisville Zoo, is the house to become for a placidity let on from urban substance traffic as well as busyness, she says. “It’s a house where i tin stroll along the brick pathways of the Sensory Garden as well as odour the lavender, behave on the fuzzy leaves of the Lamb’s Ears, as well as savor the audio of the pond’s modest waterfall.” Two pelting gardens are filled with native plants. The aeroplane blind is merely the house to savor a lonely loving cup of forenoon java where you lot are certain to hold out entertained past times feathered visitors having breakfast at the feeders, she added.
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| The butterfly garden contains plants as well as flowers that attract seasonal butterflies along with birdhouses, bloom beds as well as a pond. |
“Working hither fits my personality,” Kathy says. “Sometimes you lot bring to halt as well as mean value virtually things as well as non merely rush into something. After those ii telephone calls that day, I idea it best to tedious down, pay attention, as well as run into what comes. Things bring a agency of working out the agency they are supposed to.” Sumber http://www.todayswomannow.com/