Flight Beyond the Stars

Dr. Kelsey is an alternative learner and leads others to connect and receive from out of the way people in society. Her greatest teachers are humble people and animals The collective wisdom of sixteen folks with dementia taught her about her own worth during her major transition. She portrays composite characters in the CD Listening in the Moment to Timeless Folks. After a full career of teaching literature and writing in college and high schools, she became a teacher educator at the university level. Her research prepared the way for abandoning traditional learning in order to sing out with abandon and let her voice follow its own flow. The toning led her to perceive the chorus with others in a worldview based on nature. To give over to a new person meant giving up former values and learned behavior, as well dependencies, except for God. Seeking new sources and connections required freedom and insecurity, and being in the dark about outcome. Her interdisciplinary doctoral treatise on a nature-based worldview freed her to fly in the dark, beyond the stars, to live creatively, to find her own creative expression, and to accept a faith that God is in her everyday world. Jacqueline realized her dream to connect with original peoples in Hawaii, the Northwest, and the South Pacific.