Becoming Authentic
A New Identity: the Updated STAR Website
Today STAR is revealing its brand new website to the world. After months of planning and implementing the vision of the site, we have finally arrived! And we believe we have realized our goal of creating a website that would communicate the feeling of a STAR retreat, and convey the kind of energy that STAR embodies. Please visit the new site at www.starfound.org to see for yourself!
The new site allows visitors to experience STAR from a different perspective. It allows visitors to listen directly to STAR graduates as they explain the impact STAR has had on their lives. The site welcomes visitors to share in the incredible beauty that exists at the Kenyon Ranch, showcasing dozens of pictures of the land and the facility. The site is an invitation to explore and learn more about STAR.
We hope you will spend some time exploring the new site. And we hope you will consider sharing it with others. What matters most of all is the work that we do, helping others heal. We don’t want STAR to be the best kept secret out there. We want STAR to be accessible and welcoming. We hope the site will be a tool to share STAR with others, to create an opening for others to learn more about our organization and investigate the possibility of transformation in their lives.
With Love,
Barbara
Adaptable Authenticity
In my last blog I closed by saying “Becoming is a verb.” Being always the same, thinking the same, feeling the same is a sign of someone with a rigid personality disorder. Have you ever known anyone who is always right and sure about it and needs to be in control?
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Dicey Authenticity
Perhaps I was naïve in attempting a blog on Becoming Authentic. It turns out it is a slippery slope. What is authentic for one person may not be authentic for another. It becomes difficult when someone claims their authenticity is the only correct reality.
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Viralization of People
I looked “viralization” up in my “new” dictionary. The only word close to it was viral. It means caused by a virus. Not even Wikipedia has an entry for “viralization.”
Virus was in the dictionary—most of the definitions had to do with disease or anything that corrupts or poisons the mind or symptom and has a harmful influence. One definition referred to unauthorized, disruptive program in computers. Not much help there.
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Reality in Life and on Screen
I was sitting on a Delta jet high over a sea of clouds heading to Atlanta. I often take unread magazines with me. I was reading a copy of Time Magazine, Feb. 22, 2010.
I came to an article, What’s Right With Reality TV. There was a full page picture of folks in “Reality Nation.” Since I am not a fan of the genre I recognized very few faces, but I read all five pages of the articles.
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