WRITER’S JOURNEY

About Me — Desiree Driesenaar

And the journey continues…

It’s September 2022 and we are in Berlin for a few weeks. Staying with friends. Regaining my physical and mental strength after having been seriously ill. One foot in the grave earlier this year. I had breast cancer. A period of chemo, operation, and radiation followed.

Luckily no spreading.

I’m healthy and my short hair is growing again.

Health for me is not a lack of illness. It is the strong spine to deal with whatever I have to deal with in life

I’ve been working on my strong spine this year.

Do you ever work on yours?

I do it mainly in my sleep or active meditation. Dancing as if no one is watching. During the day I have conversations. I learn and reflect. And then, in the nights, the puzzle pieces of my life and the full spectrum world seem to order themselves in my head.

My consciousness is fed with wisdom and my next steps.

I love life very much. I love Mike, my partner in life and work. I love the fact that I’m blessed with 2 bonus daughters and 3 grandsons. I love my friends of all ages and all cultures.

I’m Born Global. And we are nomads.

Going where we are invited to make a change.

I don’t regret having any children of my own. The world’s children are my children. All of you! I was never ready for children before. But now I am. And I love being a grandma with a mission. And a vision.

Mission & Vision

That mission is expressed on Medium and LinkedIn. In newspapers, on websites, and in visions for countries, companies, and consortiums. Visions are sooooooo necessary. If you can’t imagine it, you can’t create it.

Mike and I redesign societies and economies with what is already available. Basic needs are cheap and affordable for all in our human systems. We make roadmaps with easy tools and milestones.

Societies can be fully inclusive cities and villages. Human settlements provide full access to basic needs. They will be full of good role models for youngsters other than their parents.

It takes a village to raise a child

— African Proverb

Economies can be flexible, dynamic, and growing on the inside. Becoming more dense and vibrant instead of an excess of bullshit jobs. We restore healthy landscapes and make them partly harvestable for human food and resources. If landscapes are not harvestable, they will be destroyed again in no time.

Of course, we work with minimum materials and concentrate on infrastructures for social exchange. Environmental and human health. In this day and age, regeneration combined with digital design makes everything possible.

Regeneration & digital design make holistic sustainability easy peasy.

We are inspired by Einstein. General flows and using what has already been created. Abundance is a law of nature. Not just money, but all values in interconnectivity.

Everything is connected. A truth that cannot be denied.

Abundance is our birthright. And the birthright of all other species. We show you how to combine it all. The full spectrum. AND & AND. With tech and nature. Nature tech. And human nature.

Biomimicry. Blue Economy. Regeneration.

We also show how to finance these visions. With fiat currencies and distributed cryptosystems. DAOs. NFTs. Digital design.

Writer & Visionair

My biggest talent is being a deep observer and a deep listener. I listen to Gaia these days. And observe humans as a species. Our planet already exists for 4.6 billion years. And 3.8 billion years ago life evolved.

Humans have only appeared 300,000 years ago.

We are a puberty species on the brink of becoming mature. It’s a transformational era right now. 2022. The 2s and 22s are dominant. Unexpected couples. Together. Building a new world of wonder.

We can learn. We can add dynamics and flexibility to all the static living we have done so far and become an adaptive species.

Why adaptive?

Because adaptive species are thriving species

Remember the strong spine? Well, we can cope with a lot when we are like bamboo. Flexible and strong. Bowing to the breeze of time and spatial relations.

They say that around 2028, we’ll have a new high. So, don’t despair during this crisis. In a few years, we’ll create a generation (20 years) of Renaissance.

Song & Dance. Art & Science. Beauty & love.

And most importantly, an era of rekindled common sense.

I write because I can’t do anything else to inspire the masses. Current and future leaders have to redesign human systems. If we can’t imagine what it’ll be like, we can’t create it.

And we can live it. We can love it.

We can create beauty and value with it.

New Episode 2222

Abundance is our think-and-do-tank with which we change the world of wisdom. If you want to know more about our professional work, you can have a look at LinkedIn. But here on Medium, I am for the writing. The imagining.

The full support for other writers, readers, and changemakers.

For future visions and practical roadmaps for personal growth.

At this moment, I’m writing the book Abundanism together with Mike. It’s a leadership book full of all the examples of where it has already been created in the undercurrent. A publisher found us and is enthusiastic.

And we love this French publisher who is changing the world of conservative publishing. In English, French, and other world languages.

After the book, we will create 10 sectoral essays with roadmaps for cities and villages. For mobility. For health systems. For societies, economies, entrepreneurship, and laws.

Some of the essays will be for countries on different continents. Islands. River areas. Coastal areas. Mountainous areas.

And then?

I’ll just write science fiction next.

My great-great-great granddaughter Merlinda appeared in our lives a while ago. She gives us the world from the year 2222 perspective

Merlinda is my protagonist in some stories already. She tells us about ‘Into the Syntropocene’, the age that embraces the Anthropocene with wise science. These nature-inspired beta sciences like geometry, mathematics, and quantum gravity have already emerged in our time, 2022.

And if we use this knowledge with wisdom, we can live on this planet forever and ever and ever…

Gaia even tells us about sentient AI. What a world of wonder…

Merlinda & Gaia might be a Netflix series.

If I have the time of living & writing…

And in the meantime, I layer all these real-life stories with poetry that rolls out of my pen in the mornings. This poem says it all.

Berlin goes feminine. And I love you all!

Thank you for all your support during my hard times, my friends. I’m forever grateful that you held my life strings firmly on this earth. I still have something to do, you know.

And I love to do it WITH YOU!

Thank you, Gaia, for giving me Wild Writing. © Désirée Driesenaar, 2022