Paula Bennett
Most affectionately known as “Mauma Loa”, altruistic, benevolent, jack’’ette’’ of many honorable trades, seeks to share her discipline of compassion in thought and actions for the greatest healthy unity of all beings by offering her service to you, in your service to others.
I’ve traveled and lived outdoors since 2021 as a personal preference. I trust you will find me good natured, community minded, self sufficient (financially too), generous, willing and able to equitably aid in all community aspects. Ahimsa.
Animal Care
“And your mind is refuge for all living beings.” I have had so many blessed experiences with horses and other animals, we arrrgh won
https://kadampa.org/buddhism/prayer-to-buddha
Painting & Artistry
A master craftsperson does not blame the tools he finds a new technique.- unknown
Agriculture
Healing our soil is healing our soul for its yoU & I in the sun (Latin sol) -Mauma Loa
Maintenance/ Deep Cleaning
“The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment.” -Marie Kondo
Painting Contractor
d.b.a Immaculate Details, “Sharp on the Cut in Edge” - Paula Bennett
Plant Based Chef
“VeganEarth teaches and supports ways to eat and live that are healthful, sustainable, and compassionate towards animals, people and the earth”
Public Speaking
“Today I want to remember how we see the ones that came before, how we carry them on our backs and our shoulders. In our arms. How the past remains a deep and bleeding wound in the present. And yet, a balm. Strange how we know this– that we have survived and continue to survive because as artists and activists, as storytellers and change makers of all kinds, we know that no matter how crazy and deadly a moment seems, we continue to stare the future down in order to show the way to it. –Vanity Fair, Jackqueline Woodson
Organizer
“For every minute spent on organizing, an hour is earned,” –Benjamin Franklin
772.300.6690
maumaloa851@gmail.com
EXPERIENCE
Private Homeowner, Cincinnati, Ohio
Senior Care
April 2023 - Present 2024
Company, house assistant while client recouped from fractured spine, animal care
Travel, Washington D.C., Florida, New Mexico, Arizona
Personal exploration
December 2022 - March 2023
Visiting family and friends
Private Homeowner, Accokeek, Maryland
Patient Care
November 2022 - November 2022
Deep cleaning house, cleaned refrigerator, flipped mattress, removed rotted wood structure attached to home, cooked healthy meals, did dishes, heated with wood stove so all related cutting, hauling, efficiently burning, cooking and cleaning, garden care
Housing: open barn till weather turned them unheated bedroom
Windswept Farm, Accokeek, Maryland
Volunteer
October 2022 - October 2022
Deep cleaning house, cleaned sheep and chicken pens, yard cleaning
Housing: long unused donkey shed
Bill Henry Farm, Amenia, New York
Volunteer
March 2022 - September 2022
Agriculture: removal and repurpose of invasive plants, double dug garden area and plantings. This includes time in Colorado Rainbow Gathering.
Housing: camping and when the bedrock made the ground too wet I slept a van, a block brick structure "milk house" structured into a working simple kitchen which was more efficient than making outside fires in a contained space.
Mandala Naturals, Barnardsville, North Carolina — Volunteer
January 2022 - March 2022
Mobile home restoration; frozen pipes heated and wrapped, rotted roof repair, drywall repairs, ceilings/walls painted, windows washed, stove exhaust hood rehung, cabinets deep cleaned/shelves built, refrigerators/ovens cleaned, cooking for extensive community, all tools organized/rust removal, brought general organization and daily cleaning of household needs.
Housing: manufactured home that had low heat retention.
Blueberry Village, Barnardsville, North Carolina — Volunteer
October 2021 - January 2022
Tropical Storm Fred devastated an artist community, so I assisted with flood damage control, cleaning the environment/ buildings, packing of possessions for relocation, animal care, painting artistic accents, moving solar panels, cooking for many and housekeeping for their associated AirBNB.
Housing: a nicely decked out mini bus "Blessed" and the Airbnb
The Garden, Lafayette, Tennessee— Speaker/Volunteer
October 202
Adobe floor- aided in creation, cooked/cleaned for community, participated in other community activities.
Housing: open air/camp fire
National Forests, —Pennsylvania, Maine, Volunteer
June 2021 -August 2022
Allegheny Forest and White Mountain; primitive camping, cut trails with others, built with community stone stove/ kitchen tarping, prepared community meals, cleaned dishes/kitchen area, assisted in site erasure of human activity. First exposure to the Rainbow Gathering
Housing: open air/camp fire
Camp Cowboy, Kempner, Texas — Volunteer
February 2021 - March 2021
Ice storm hastened the need for assistance. While they worked on 72 pipe breaks I took care of grooming horses and cleaning their environment. Other activities included multiple homes deep cleaned, including appliances and windows, learned safety and implementation of 2,000 sq ft controlled burn.
Housing: bunkhouse, quansit hut, housing restoration site, open air/camp fire
Lotus Bend Sanctuary, Manchaca Texas — Volunteer
January 2021 - February 2021
Began with a day visit, developed into 3 weeks of grounds and sacred space spring cleaning for an auspicious Buddhist Monk to perform a purification ceremony before heading to India after a year of being co-vid delayed with mandate changes. Cared for chickens, peacocks, plants, aided in greeting, directing parking, reader of scripture, fire keeper.
Housing: camping
Immaculate Details Painting, Michigan — Proprietor
1996 - 2009
High end quality with affordable prices, interior/exterior. Specialized in surface prep (cleaning), drywall, paint application faux finishes of all types, and fool the eye murals. 2005 business expanded into antique auto faux wood grain restoration, nationally toured. Skilled with power tools and construction basics. Built moving parade float lion, theater faux wallpaper, wood, stone, signage and backdrops
Housing: home owner, open air/camp fire
EDUCATION Learning something new every day
Collective Trauma Healing, Thomas Hübl online course
2022
50 hours of varied speakers on how to create a better environment for all beings through recognizing ancestral coping skills that no longer assist the present and replacing them with mindful thoughts and actions.
Kadampa Buddhist Temple, Glen Spey New York
August 2021
Expanded perception of various forms of faith and values. Two week event, I camped on site. Assisted with landscaping care, painting, event preparation, event tent construction/tear down
Indigenous Wisdom Permaculture Conference, Pine Ridge, South Dakota — Volunteer and Participant
June 2018
Working with and for community; aided in event set up and clean up, kitchen crew, aided in gardening, built with community abode walls in building with rocket stove seat/bed, worked soil into tires for Earthship, drove backhoe, emergency shovel work diverting flooding from rain. Camped. Street medic training.
Civic Garden Center, Cincinnati Ohio — Master Gardener
September 2015 - May 2018
Soil, propagation, composting, community development, events, volunteering
Northwest Michigan College, Michigan — Dual Associates
September 1995 - May 1998
Geology/Earth Science and Child Development
Ferndale Adult Ed, Michigan —Classes
1990 - 1991
Mechanical & Architectural drafting
Camp Wolverine, Michigan — Horsemanship
1980 - 1986
Grooming, hoof care,Western/English riding, jumping, barn/equipment maintenance, feeding
PROJECTS
SKILLS
Active listener
Adaptable
Artistic
Attention to detail
Cold-calling
Communication skills
Compassion
Computer literate
Data Entry
Emotional intelligence
Empathy
Ethical Work
Excellent with most beings
Filing/paper management
General Business Knowledge
Grant writer and receiver
Leadership skills
Logo Creation
Mechanically adept
Motivation
Openness
Organization skills
Patient Care
Public speaking
Problem solver
Patient
Planner
Research and Analysis
Resilient
Teamwork skills
Time management
Trustworthy
Typography; layout, font, etc
AWARDS
Artistic eye- award winning from youth
Golden PaintBrush Award through Keep Cincinnati Beautiful for delapid lot transformation to garden
Vegan Earth Day —Burnett Woods, Cincinnati Ohio
I brought the foundational entities together, designed and implemented the advertising, 2019 Eight hour event with less than 2 month plan; est. 1,200 attendees, 8 food vendors, 5 speakers, 4 bands, 19 complimentary business booths, 2 pallets of pantry vegetables freely shared. Park department allowed planting of native edible shrubs, a first.
Vegan Earth Potluck Group — Cincinnati Ohio
Six year involvement, as founding members atritioned I took the role of finding guest speakers, designing flyers, social media, and mobile advertising, coordinator with venue, site prep/cleanup, MC, and generous chef through gleaned food.
Food Not Bombs —Cincinnati Ohio
Fed up to 200 people in severe inclimate weather with hot plant based meals and offered extensive free groceries with occasional clothing support, housed people short term, was instrumental in the group reforming in the city.
Community Gardens — Cincinnati Ohio
The final garden that won the award had an extensive composting area that I capitalized upon by bringing in pantry waste- saving landfills from methane development. The pantries threw away good produce because the incoming stock was prolific. After sharing in front of the garden drivers were able to restart FNB. The property was sold. Too often the gardens were sacrificed for concrete gain to the point I lost heart attempting to be involved in any but i enjoyed the Master Gardening courses, learning various community needs,
Published Writer, Street Vibes — Cincinnati Ohio
Several articles on social issues. Government, children and extinction rebellion
Feast of Victory Lutheran Church —Traverse City, Michigan
Taught Sunday and Vacation Bible School, faux finishing, props and scenes for VBS.
Activist several non violent interaction classes.
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