Noddy Brothers

Steam Dreamer

<p>I am a dreamer with organizational skills. There is never a picture of just me because I'm always with someone - working with them volunteering with them, making things happen together.</p> <p>Steampunk has always lured me with tea, and the wondrous, eager explorations of the people that lived in those times.&nbsp; I see a lot of the same fervor in modern steampunks and I love it - the inventiveness, the dreams that they just know they can tinker into being.</p> <p>OctopodiCon isn't just my dream (rememebr, I never do anything alone), it's the dream of many other people who have worked for more than a year to get it to this point.&nbsp; They've all become dear friends to me along the way, and that's what steampunk really is - community. OctopodiCon is one of many steampunk conventions, but I think it offers connections into community that transcend just a convention.</p> <p>It's a dream that I am privileged and honored to help bring into being.</p> <p>I've spent a lifetime gathering up the skills and abilities to help create this program.&nbsp; I've written manuals for youth groups, led youth groups, worked in labs, done fieldwork, gained anachronistic skills in making apothecary items like mustache wax and old fashioned sodas.&nbsp; I became a Tea Master and learned how to make absinthe. But the most important skills I gained were the paperwork skills - how to organize events by volunteering for more than 30 years at the OU Medieval Fair, organizing school science fairs, organizing fundraisers for schools, getting a degree in business administration, and a PhD in Fairytales.&nbsp; Gotta keep dreams alive, yes?</p> <p>And the people I work with are all smarter than me, skilled, wonderful, experienced.</p> <p>We dream of steam and we want to steam up the future - together.</p>

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