Ma Perkins Is Just Like You And Me

Ma Perkins lived in a small mid-western town, and she loved people. 

She was kindly, trusting, and had a huge heart for sharing with her community. She would help you out if you asked her for whatever you needed and, at the same time, give you the best of her life philosophy.

Ma was an American radio star in the 1930s, in the great depression. She was the typical housewife back then, raising two children, cooking, cleaning, doing the wash, and helping her neighbours when disaster struck. She was left alone to handle the household and the business after her husband suddenly died.

What she brought to America in a time of great personal difficulty for the country and her family was to let people know she was just like them. People needed to know there was someone who understood their life.

Ma was charged with the responsibility to make a living for her family and take care of her children. 

Ma Perkins broke out of her old ways of living. She had to break old habits and trust she could make it.

This sense of trust is one of the great qualities she brought to her listeners. 

Is this what's happening to all of us now? Are you being asked to break the chains of old habits, and outdated thinking?

Our personal lives and work are different today than Ma Perkins.

Still, we can emulate Ma, with our skills and attitudes of caring for our families and friends and bringing neighbourliness to each other.

Ma Perkins not only adjusted to tough times, but she also showed us that you could be hopeful and loving and reinvent your life when disaster strikes.

Now is the time to ask yourself a few questions:

What do I need right now?

How can I reinvent my life to be full and rich and hopeful?

Who am I in this current circumstance?

Who am I on this uncertain path?

I've asked myself these questions and realized how tough it is to come up with answers that satisfy me. We need a community to expand the possibilities of creativity and reinvention.

I have decided to break the chains of old habits and outdated thinking. It seems imperative to me at this time of our evolution.

So, I've started a private Facebook community, We Reinvent Lives, and I'm inviting you to join me on this exciting and uncertain adventure. It is time.

We will have conversations about our lives, support each other in redefining experiences and explore personal and community possibilities.

Our community will be an experiment like we have never done before.

Someone may see a possibility for you that you could not see for yourself.

Creativity is alive in our community. 

Here is a current example:

A local craft brewery had to shut down because of the pandemic. 

The business was now at risk if a new use was not found for the assets in a new way.

They came up with the idea to produce hand sanitizer. It is a product badly needed at this time.

Who would have thought a brewery could be converted into a sanitizer producing plant? This is an example of your creative nature. It is within all of us.

Will you join our community? Let's get together in a way that we never have before and see what all of it might become. 

We Reinvent Lives could be the most exciting time in your life.

See you there.