The Maker Space Infinity Society

A few months back I had a taste of independence for the first time in a few years. My five children were all in school, and I had a chance to get reacquainted with myself, to find my equilibrium after a long stretch of feeling completely overwhelmed. I thought about what might be next for me. Pondering what might be next wasn’t a new idea really, I have always remained engaged with the world by imagining my place in it. Motherhood can be a lonely and isolating experience, and without imagination it can often feel like drowning. Having an active imagination has been a way of life for me. I grew up an only child. There were usually many people around; family, friends, neighbors. I had a beautiful and expansive network of people who love me, hundreds of people. But, often, once the dust settled, I found myself alone. With my thoughts to keep me company, imagination has always sustained me. I grew up in the city, taking the train, walking the busy bustling streets, every day an adventure. My Mom always made travel a priority. Having seen and known so many people, places, sights, and sounds provides me with a deep well of ports of respite in my mind. Places that I hold onto for their beauty, or for the way that they smell, for the way the wind moves through them, or the sense of their vast breadth. All tools, held in my mind, providing me with a sense of calm and peace in a world that most often feels driven by something less beautiful. Imagination has always been my way of life, and it sustains me still. I have never been able to comprehend how you might accept something on face value. I have always had an insatiable desire to know more than what is shown, to understand the underbelly, and once I understand something, to reinvent it in my mind, and improve it. Exploring the world in this way is what sustains me. When you approach everything and everyone with innate curiosity, you are never bored.

For years, I’ve hoped to one day have a blog. I’ve imagined what I might focus on, which projects might be most worthy of having a spotlight cast over them. I won’t ponder too deeply why it has taken me until now to launch this blog, I am simply grateful that the time has come. I am already liberated by the feeling that I might finally be heard. That my thoughts, long and winding, might finally move from my mind, out into the world. 

With Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs in mind, I knew that I would not squander the safety and security of my life, and that with the privilege of choice, came a responsibility to move forward carefully, and with intention.

And so, I have decided to launch a social movement, The Maker Space Infinity Society

The idea is to empower the logical, pragmatic, real world, on the ground, in real time, projects that must be undertaken. The work that needs doing. I have had my toes in the deep and quickening sands of the realities of life always. I have always been deeply and profoundly in touch with the true struggle of existence. I have been well versed in it always, immersed, and enveloped in the deep and profound suffering of the masses. I know suffering. And I know what it will take to mend it, to remediate its anguish, to diffuse it, and reinvent it, to breathe new life into everything that needs oxygen, and reinvigorate it. I know what it will take to fix our broken and fractured society, and that work is what I am undertaking. I am inviting others to join me. I have plans for at least 5 business models that I know will succeed, and will simultaneously serve the greater good. That is what is next for me. I invite you to join me.

Welcome to Ms. Is.

P.s. I promise to sometimes be funny.