Walker West (aka Kyung-Sook Lee)'s Page

What are your hopes and dreams for the community and world?

I like to live in a community where I can share what I can offer, and interact with others who stimulate my own interest as well. Basically I want to live in a place compassion rules. Creative and spiritual communication that will enrich everyone in the society as a unit, not as an individually oriented competitive society of progressing the world with anxiety. Materialistic superiority has be be shifted.

How do you aspire to or try to live the highest life principles that you know?

It all starts with ourselves. I have been dedicated myself to Yoga and Buddhism for the last three years, and learn to start from that inner stillness. Inside out approach. However, living alone in an isolated community doesn't bring much vitality and energy. I have lived in Manhattan since 1999, and I don't seem to find a genuine human society, other than career oriented, and success minded busyness that are not spiritually and humanly possible. As the family spreads and fragmented by necessity, we have to think globally and not biological blood lineage...human spirit as a building block. I have my second child finishing college next year, and I have been searching for a new community, and this seems to be a great vibrant way of keeping the spirit up.

Please select which of the following "Building Blocks" you are actively working in?

Arts and Culture, Education/Mentoring, Spirituality

Please select which of the following "Building Blocks" you are interested in working?

Clean and Healthy Environment, Community Peace and Safety, Local Food, Neighbor Helping Neighbor, Community Empowerment of Those on the "Margins", Arts and Culture, Housing, Family and Community Health and Wellness, Education/Mentoring, Spirituality

Any passion, interest, or specific project (with the name if you like) not covered in the questions above?

Trained as a pharmaceutical research scientist, and health science policy analyst (NAS, Washington DC). I have an extensive study wit painting, dancing, poetry, writing, psychology, Buddhism. I have a life coaching (Business/executive, and personal) certificate from NYU, I have also trained for NLP practitioner in London. Last year, I completed my certificate in TESOL (Eng teaching for non Eng speakers). I raised two children. I would like to develop many projects out of my training and experiences at the right community where people are sharing and growing with each other. Becoming useful again in the community makes me energized.