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... I appreciate you clicking this way and thanx for touching finger tips with me - especially reading the blog which is important to me.
This month there has been twice as many hits to my site and more than double unique visitors than last month and then, September, I was delighted and amazed.
Thanx to Charlie who creates the website for me and the new system of regular pix to keep it fresh and tasty.
I don't know why I feel so appreciative - but I guess it is a bit like writing a book and people reading it. In the case of my games books - using it/them.
I suppose it adds to my feelings of worth and we all need that eh?
AND ..... if you have not done ...... the bit below is important to me:
.................. I encourage you to subscribe to my regular e-newsletter here:-
http://www.pipwilson.com/Pages/E-Newsletter%20Page.html
ps ..... see you in November ......
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...... this week I ran and election with a group of homeless humans ....... we looked at Bush and Kerry and then all voted ...... all voted and the result was ......
Sadly it was six votes each!
The chairman , a young man called steve, gave the casting vote and Bush resumed power! grrr
Next week I am holding another election among 120 humans and I will let you know the result.
Why don't you do one with your work mates factory/office - staff room/class?
I usually do one with the Greenbelt Board ...... will let you know the result!
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ps There is a band called 'Nosteves'
It is because there are no band members with the name of Steve!
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...... yes this is the only one still available from me but it is great - even I use it all the time.
It has 100's of games and developmental exercises - about body mind and spirit things.
It has several of the blob tools and the blob tree.
This pic is so small it is difficult to see but that is me with shorts on and a stupid grin to match my kneecaps!!
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.... this is one little bit of my Blob Tree which remains popular around the world I will send you a copy by snail if you want - but never by e-electronic ......
I have some nice postcards of the tree .....
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......... if you have ever met me you may spot the lightly built body ....... but also view those other beautiful humans ....... see the Level Five button on my home page to understand a bit more .....
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A close up of the happy couple see below
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..... so here we have my friend Adolfus and his wife Anitha having their wedding without me.
At Greenbelt he invited us to the wedding of the century - planned for Easter 2005 in India and Joan and me were wanting to hip-hop over and do it in grand style and then ........... visa problems and other complications have resulted in the wedding being brought forward so at least we will be seeing them soon!
I will post a better - 'close up' shot soon so you can see them better but I thought you would like the style of this pic ..... wow ..... and we missed it.
hey hey Ado
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.... well here I am doing a late night blog after a full day and a full life ......
..... it seems to me that we cannot become a full human being without exploring our spirituality and we cannot grow spiritually without exploring our humanity .....
Today I have concluded a course called 'he road less travelled' and we have experienced something special.
We learn our cultural norms, not by teaching, but by observing and experiencing. The experience soaks into us because we are like a sponge.
Today we have concluded a fab experience of
-a climate of trust
-a safe place
-with permission to say who I am
-something beautiful and unique
I led the course and yet it is a profound experience in my development. I spurt in learning from humans gathered together and willing to step out side the comfortable to the disturb zone. In that - we learn from one another because we are saying who we are........ I cannot tell you how good it has been.
THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED
Joan has 'home made' three Christmas puddings and to my dismay she is giving two away grrrrr ............. the Homer Simpson is coming out of me ......... grrr
I have loved commuting for four hours today and eight hours before the week is out AND, add to that, at least eight hours driving this week ....... I love it because of the delight of listening to my iPod and the fabtalistclysesationally good music ........... how can anyone manage without a weekly injection of 3 hours per week of Pete Tong house music? ........
Tonight Joan and me watched a VH1 replay of a 'classic album' programme about "The Joshua Tree' featuring U2........... Hmmm.
Fab stuff and as I trod the stairs to visit the loo I saw more clearly the big framed pic (5'x3') of the original artwork of that album cover and, in my little box room full of games equipment and videos, ........ a five foot by two foot picture of the Joshua tree tour stage ......... I am riddled with U2 ......... and I love it .....
... so here I am involved in the university of life ....... picking up the vibes of life and loving it ......
I don't know who you are unless you tell me ........ and I think the most important thing is that you have humans who you can tell who you are ........ now and becoming ...... that 'becoming' does not end and having a group - or at least one ...... who you can communicate with .....
I hope ........ with these blogs ..... that I can disturb your comfortable and also comfort your disturbed ............. you are special ...
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..... yes here we are after a full session of Level Five and if you don't know what the hell I am on about - follow the link from my home page:-
www.pipwilson.com
This will give you an ideaa of what we have been and becoming over 24 years .......
I think it is a remarkable experience and lifespan happening and moreso because it has lasted so long.
My head is buzzing from the interactions and thoughts left lingering in my soul. It is the things others said and poured from L5 commitment BUT also, strangely but not unexpected - ever, what I said. When there is a safe environment anywhere and a climate of trust amongst a human group, there is a gentle genuine questioning that disturbs the duvet covering the soul and out pops words unrehearsed. Words and thought not yet concluded and it is good to hear my soul.
One thing else before I slip into being a click machine forever - it is wonderful to have the gang around our place this time. It is great how they come in, kick of their shoes, lounge anywhere, drink and eat anything, swop seats, smoke my cigars .......... generally make themselves at home because where we have been over the 24 years (4 homes) is their home too.
"Maybe nothing is more important than that we keep track, you and I, of these stories of who we are and where we have come from and the people we have met along the way because it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity . . . that God makes himself known to each of us most powerfully and personally."
Frederick Buechner (Telling Secrets , 1991)
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...... wanting to share a pic of my Mother who lived for about ten years using a wheel chair having had both legs amputated.
She died about ten years ago in beautiful peace with her four sons at her bed.
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.... it is in a YMCA World magazine and even though I have not seen it yet ..... it is out there doing it's stuff ..... kicking off like this;
Young people - not only human beings, but humans becoming
Pip Wilson is an independent Facilitator, Trainer and Group Worker following 25 years of service for the YMCA in England. He is the author of four books and designer of many developmental exercises and games used world wide. Here he gives his views on the importance of strategically preparing young people for leadership.
Above the Reception of the YMCA I led for eighteen years is a large sign in bold letters: "Young people are not only our present - they are our future."
When I was fifteen, I was as bad as a member of a youth group. I was just about to be rejected as a member - but - the leaders gave me another option. They asked me if I would take responsibility for a group of young teenagers. Accepting that was the beginning of a lifetime of leadership.
..... catch the whole article and others on the subject written by humans around the planet .....
www.ymca.int
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....... yes Charlie was outside the BBC on Friday to see this special 30 minute gig and not only that - Tomek and Anita went to a recording for CDUK on Saturday and saw the band doing a unique 30 minute set ..... touching the stage he said ...... wowee .......
....... in Church this morning the traditional fifty strong choir did it for me ........ music touches the soul and I need it ..... amen
FIVE WORDS
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to describe my life at the moment;
stretch
excited
sleeplessness
insideweeping
.......... and you?
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........ did you see the Vertigo track live on TV?
Tomorrow the bootleg will be on sale on Romford Market ........... love it love it .....
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..........@ I guess about eight - do you think?
A pic of this, + showing my legs and three brothers, is on the new a beautifully new 'charlie dun it' - web-site launched today. See the photo click button.
I love the new pic section and with new and recent photos.
ALSO - if you are not on the list to get my e-Newsletter - or you have changed your email ad in the last two years, could you click my buttons on the web-site and subscribe PLEASE?
If you can recommend to anyone else to subscribe - I will love you more ............ er - NO ....... that stands at 100% ...........
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...... I still have the eternal Taxi Man running through my soul and the little video playing of that special few moments of interaction with a BHP.
If you missed it or want to re-read ....... just type the key words in the search feature above - kindly provided by blogger do com.
I believe it is so vital for you and me to be convinced of our beauty,
It is not about your face.
It is not about your behaviour
It is not about your feelings
It is not about your broken-ness
It is not about your faith - less
.... it is simply about your depth of beauty as a human and as a human made by God.
And being like him .......... SO - thank you for showing me what God is like ...........
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...... here we are at the first Greenbelt mtg post festival ....... on the left Paul Chambers, then Andy vice Chairman Andy Turner and on your right Mr Geordie man Big John ......... having a local pub-drink after a tough old mtg - not really - it was great ........... a joy to be to be to become among these beautiful humans who form the core of a wider community of 17500 humans called Greenbelt.
Thanx Eternal Taxi Man for looking after these precious humans ...............
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.... have a great life and do great things ..........
Remember the first three words in the book;
"The Road Less Travelled"
These three words are
"Life is difficult ........"
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.... was good to be in a modern church with a decent rig and a service with some meaning and momentum.
I will post more pix on my new sponnee web-site come the end of the week but for now I will add one more.
Enjoyed talking with Janet and Charlie, Kevin and Sherly, Ian Bitta, seeing Julia and Gary and Gill Steve Mo and David ........ so many people to mention ...
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.... this is the wedding of the day today.
It was great to see two beautiful humans married in front of friends family an the eternal Taxi Man too.
Several standouts ........ one was seeing so many humans who I knew in the past - old members of the ymca and staff from all over the nation now - all once Romford - now changing the world.
One group was a whole bunch of the old Rolling Magazine Crew - all now around 32 years old. We were the ones who ran the RM at Greenbelt year on year and also took the show on the road - I loved the interactions ......... it is so wondrous to see so many ..... I will have to blog some more after I have posted this first pic ..... whew ......
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...... this is my favourite title and I have so much more content - not the least being the new Blob drawings from the pen of Ian Long.
...... I need to find some time to crack it ....
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....... this is gary who works in Northern Ireland in a fantastic work loving people.
He was pictured by me in Czech Republic at a YMCA conference.
I was conducting workshops and also drinking the fine beeer there with Gary.
He is a great man and I ask you to remember him .......
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....... here we are in the midst of horror at home and abroad ....... it is so important that we know that we are special and precious ... that creates a climate of understanding that all human kind are the same as me ....... you ........
bless you today ....
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.... of brantchristopher.com ........ at the end of my camera at the aftershow - Greenbelt 2004
And what a beautiful human he is .....
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..... this is Ola at the wedding of Anita and Tomek in Poland ...... it was beautiful and I wanted to show you more pix .....
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... just a reminder to you whatever you are doing,thinking, reflecting, hoping or maybe .....
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........ yes Blackpool Tower and we are at Place De La Concorde which is on an island south of England ........ unlike me the are all very clever here ...... they can all speak French - even the children!
Last night we had a nice meal out.
I did not go for the Frog Fritters or the Snails in Puff pastry - but I usually go for the stretch marks courses when I am out for a meal. Sometimes I am disappointed in what it tastes like ...... but I don't often play safe.
How do yo eat out?
safe?
same?
new?
bold?
risk?
adventure?
Maybe we eat just how we live?
Maybe we live our principles out like we eat?
risky/safe/routine/stretch?
What do you think?
www.pipwilson.com
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........ here we are in central Paris and tasting the delight for the eyes and the taste buds ....
enjoying .....
"non, je ne regrete riene" ..... would be the theme ..... it is certainly the song running through my head all the time ....... can you guess the singer of the famous version?
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....... here we are in Paris France and loving it LOVING IT .........