Eclectic Waters

learn, change & live

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Eclectic Waters is the pen name I came up with after discovering the word eclectic and realizing, “Hey! That’s me!” Water, I have always loved, because I am a girl from the sea, a nomad.

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Born in Germany, living on board the Operation Mobilization (O.M) ships until I was seven, I traveled the oceans and seas of the world, living on three different ships.  My family returned to Canada (where my parents are from and the country on my passport) and I went through 2nd grade.  Then we moved to Mosbach, Germany to the O.M. ship headquarters.  I repeated 2nd grade because of the language barrier and got half way through 6th grade when we moved to the Logos II where my family and I continued to sail the seas.  We joined in France and continued through Europe and sailed across the Atlantic ocean to the Caribbean and then through the Panama canal towards Canada & the U.S.  While my family remained on the ship, I attended boarding school at the Black Forest Academy in Germany for my 10th and 11th year of High School.  My senior year of high-school, my family and I moved to El Cajon, California and I attended a private Christian school.  Since then, 1999, I have been living in the States.

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I love to dream, think, organize, learn, talk about ideas, encourage people, grow, inspire others, get things done, be in nature, write, be with my friends, make new friends, public speaking & reading, sketching, laughing, discovering…

This blog is a part of me. The part that loves words. The part that wants to inspire others to

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learn, change & live