Sunday, February 10, 2008




I have just found this picture.
Ken Montgomery, Gill and Steve, Val and Malcolm, Simon and Ann, Angie, The Sheilas and Joan, Phil, Simon, Peter, Ian, Sam and more .....

This was taken some twenty years ago outside a Turkish Restaurant in Essex Road North London. I reminds me of the enjoyment and work in pulling together many individuals into 'community' ......

I spent about 18 years leading this community which was/had 150 staff, 200 volunteers 6k members we stumbled and fumbled into making community ......... and we learned ...... every step ...


“Belonging is a circle that embraces everything;
if we reject it, we damage our nature.
The word ‘belonging’ holds together the two fundamental aspects of life:
Being and Longing,
the longing of our Being
and
the being of our Longing.’

John O'Donohue




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