There’s a chill in the air.
Summer hasn’t been summer this year (I always hold out hope that autumn will just be Indian summer and we’ll all be much better for it) but things are definitely ending and beginning again.
I closed up my practice at the end of July, organising the files and contacts and books I probably won’t look into again for a good long while. I haven’t been so committed to it in months, and this was something I felt keenly just after my mother died. My heart hasn’t been in the work of looking after patients I treat, trying to keep them committed to their own developments towards health. Closing things down, finally, felt good.
But there is this other problem of “what next?”
Part time work I’m doing in the wine industry really isn’t enough for me, and the vineyard I’m hoping to oversee in the future is still a pipe dream–when I need to learn more, I can always learn more about it, there’s no real need to do it today. For now, I’ve left one winery position because I’ve been invited into another–it seems more hopeful, and it promises to restore an element of lightheartedness to the work that’s disappeared. It’s a very different environment, but there are a lot of similarities and my own experience counts for a great deal.
I’m still playing with the science behind homeopathy, wondering why it is that so many other scientists in the world have been so highly influenced by Hahnemann, and making note that all of those scientists have met with resistance despite the solidity of their research and applications. Some of those scientists even denounce Hahnemann as a quack (Luca Turin, this pertains to you) but their own work basically extends from–and supports–his. I was hoping for an opportunity to do some of this research on my own, and write about it–or just have an opportunity to edit or write about or teach homeopathy instead of actually treating patients.
Well, the opportunity’s presented itself. Out of the blue, the other night, a colleague in Vancouver called to ask me to become part of the Journal published by the Canadian Society of Homeopaths–she’s asked me to be a peer in their review committee. When she found out I had a teaching degree she asked if I’d like to work on some of their education projects–doing the kind of education outreach within the community which would support homeopaths and their patients wherever they practice by creating links for information between labs, remedy retailers, patients and practitioners. This is desperately needed (it’s a major hurdle, practising with no support from those who serve your patients’ needs in terms of access to the medicines they need as they’ve been prescribed). Another project they’ve wanted to carry out happens to be one of my pet projects, too: teaching new grads how to set up and operate financially viable, successful practices which sustain them in terms of livelihood, and sustain the science by making it more visible to patients as viable health care. A lot of work to do! And finally, an opportunity to do it.
Now if there were only something I could find that would improve my income–a real, full grown adult’s kind of work, with real, full grown adult pay. I’m going to keep my eyes open for that, next.
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