On March 15th I wrote a blog at this site called the Unknown Survivor. In it I was wishing I could find the woman I had read about in the press who had survived an assault from Chelsea King’s alleged murderer John Gardner. I wanted to learn who she was and how she did it.

Lo and behold Reva of www.girlempowerselfdefense.com wrote me recently and on her website I found a link to a Larry King interview with the unknown survivor! Her name is Candace Moncayo and sure enough she believes she escaped Gardner because she fought back!

Hear her amazing story at; www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2010/03/16/lkl.attack.story.cnn.html

Everything is beginning to come together now. I can see a pinpoint of light at the end of all these activities. We continue to build one thing upon another and the global infrastructure takes shape inside the local one. It’s funny that we have a building going up in back of my house because I get to watch the new foundation being laid and that is so much of what we do here day in and day out, lay the foundation for a much larger vision.

I am finally the tortoise, slow and steady. Research, the curriculum, the people involved internationally, the time lines, everyday we’re a little bit closer to having a workable, sustainable safety skills franchise for the women and children of this world. I hope I never get over the belief that it’s a sin that we don’t have one already. In that way, this can’t happen fast enough for me…. But that’s just not the way this it’s going to be.

As for the hare in this story – been there, done that.