1. I am crazy about all of nature - the trees,
the grass, the hills, the valleys and the rivers. Although I love the quietness
of being alone in nature, I am afraid of large animals and the moment I think
of the possibility of coming face to face with one of them in nature, I want to
hurry up and get back to civilization.
For that reason alone I usually choose to walk during
odd hours in parks
or on sidewalks.
2. I often walk to quiet my mind, more
like a stroll really, but long ones. Many
times, I have had walks that have taken me well over four hours. I usually leave my house without any plans
and almost always without thought I automatically start picking up trash along
the way.
3. I am most comfortable at home. Even
when I had the opportunity to travel with ultra-luxurious cruise liners, like
Crystal and Regent Cruises, staying in amazing cabins with service “to
die for” and seeing our beautiful planet
usually after a month I would rather be home on my sofa in my home to enjoy my
beloved coffee.
4. I love seeing my friends and family
face-to-face instead of talking on the phone or texting. I am the happiest when
I have them over at my home for meals.
5. I become a task master in emergency
situations. No matter if those emergencies took place at the hospitals where I
worked as a nurse for years which were highly organized for agencies, but even
with that when they happened it still was chaos every time or when the
emergencies took place out of the hospital. In later years when my own son who
was diagnosed with diabetes at age ten and lost consciousness several times due
to very low blood sugar I realized that during the crisis I had almost no
emotions. I always did what was necessary for every one of those occasions.
6. I am a matter-of-fact person and most
times I am brutally honest.
7. I depend on and honor my intuitions for they
are usually right on target.
8. Although I am an artist at heart designing and
making jewelry, writing, and painting I am overall a very linear and I love the
business side of being an artist.
9. I take total responsibility for my
own actions at all times. I have always known that everything that was present
in my life good or bad was my own doing, but when it comes to others, I often
give them the benefit of the doubt and overall I live very much an explanatory
style of life when it comes to things that happen out of my control by trying
to see the good in even the worst of circumstances.
10. I love food! One of
my absolute passions is creating meals for my friends and tasting everything I
see in this universe.
Of course in the beginning of seeing I didn’t realize that my eyes would open slightly from time to time to give me an illusion of happiness, but because I had no idea what true happiness was I would drift back to my state of familiarity. I lived my life mostly on an automatic life-sustaining machine by my body without my mind interfering with it.
It is my hope that the stories I share with you will somehow touch your heart, perhaps crack open a door and shine a light for you to embark on your own quest of self-discovery. I don’t presume to have all the answers; I don’t even know all the questions. At the very least, I am seeking to understand and allow life to happen; learning to take responsibility and ownership of myself and my actions, and appreciating all that is.
Read the chapters, each on its own. As you move through them, you will uncover my intermittent consciousness as I explore my thoughts or beliefs and might be able to even get a glimpse of my evolution along the way.
I am blessed to have had so many people touch my life and, knowingly or unknowingly, helped me on my journey. I have come to realize that because we are all one, that anything I come to know and am willing to share with others affects all of us in a positive way. With great humility, I open up my imperfect, yet perfect, life for you to walk beside me. I am forever grateful and honored.
About the Book
This book is about
self-discovery and the journey that awakened me to the many facets of life. The
road hasn’t always been easy with its tolls and junctions. It’s about my
struggle to discover who I really am, what I believe in and how I’ve arrived at
a place where I am able to appreciate myself and my surroundings.
Most of my life I lived in
a state of arrested consciousness without being aware of it. Then one day out
of nowhere my eyes opened just enough for me to question my way of living and
my state of mind. That was the day questions started to arrive. They were
nothing like the questions I had before. As if they weren’t even questions they
were an unraveling string of realizations followed by overwhelming sorrow. How
could I have lived my life as if I was in a semi coma and in turn induce my own
suffering?
Of course in the beginning of seeing I didn’t realize that my eyes would open slightly from time to time to give me an illusion of happiness, but because I had no idea what true happiness was I would drift back to my state of familiarity. I lived my life mostly on an automatic life-sustaining machine by my body without my mind interfering with it.
It is my hope that the stories I share with you will somehow touch your heart, perhaps crack open a door and shine a light for you to embark on your own quest of self-discovery. I don’t presume to have all the answers; I don’t even know all the questions. At the very least, I am seeking to understand and allow life to happen; learning to take responsibility and ownership of myself and my actions, and appreciating all that is.
Read the chapters, each on its own. As you move through them, you will uncover my intermittent consciousness as I explore my thoughts or beliefs and might be able to even get a glimpse of my evolution along the way.
I am blessed to have had so many people touch my life and, knowingly or unknowingly, helped me on my journey. I have come to realize that because we are all one, that anything I come to know and am willing to share with others affects all of us in a positive way. With great humility, I open up my imperfect, yet perfect, life for you to walk beside me. I am forever grateful and honored.
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About the Author
After being there a little over a year, they got married and a short while after that moved to Shreveport, Louisiana where she immediately began her studies to be able to work as a Registered Nurse. While studying for her boards, she was allowed to work as a scrub technician in an operating room at a nearby surgery center. She passed her boards and worked in an operating room for many years before moving to Las Vegas, Nevada there she worked at a busy University Medical Trauma Center as a staff nurse for several years until she earned the position of Charge Nurse.
By 2001, she was divorced and living with her two young sons. Her desire to make more money became her impetus to start her own business, which soon became her sole source of income as her success grew. She has never looked back.
Gulten found her talent and passion in creating one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces and sold them to well-known people, such as Celine Dion, Rachel Ray and Mary Higgins Clark. She became an international success when her work showed on Entertainment Tonight and Insider and was for sale in the high-end casinos in Las Vegas and on high-end cruise liners. She then created a jewelry line called Metamorphosis, a line of interchangeable jewelry that brought her even greater success.
Gulten is also an author and self- published her first book Semi Coma - Evolution of my Intermittent Consciousness in 2011, currently selling on all digital media as well as in hard copy. Her second book “The Missing Link” is awaiting publication in 2013.
In 2013, she opened her new concept store where she not only sells her own designs, but includes many local artists of different medium, including a local authors section. In turn for being able to sell their artwork in her store, all artists have agreed to teach others their medium for the future generation free thinkers.
Gulten lives and creates in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Visit her website at www.gultendye.com.