Shannyn, thank you for the wonderful comments about my mother.  She was indeed the most wonderful mother a person could have.  And she helped my father be the most amazing man I have ever met.  I have been blessed. My father's last and greatest dream was for the Owner State model to help eliminate poverty here in Alaska.....and in the world.  And my mother's dearest wish before she died was to see the Alaska Center for the Commons become a reality.  She almost made it.  The Institute of the North will be launching the Alaska Center for the Commons in November of their year.  The fire is being kindled.