title: Awakening to Becoming.
abstract: This column explores the question: How do you want to be known? Three awakening stories are presented to provide a framework for discussing the humanbecoming processes of creative imagining, affirming personal becoming, and glimpsing the paradoxical. These processes are important in changing living quality and developing personal pattern preferences by which to be known.
authors.affiliation: Adjunct Professor of Nursing, South Dakota State University tsbunkers@sio.midco.net.
authors.forename: Sandra Schmidt
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Bunkers
mesh_terms: D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D010684:Philosophy
keywords: awakening; humanbecoming; living quality; to be known