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.......... I like that - seeing that at least 80% of communication is non verbal ......

Could I draw your attention to the item below as boring as it may sound zzzzzzzz

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....... soon - so very soon I will be sending out my eNews ....... some 3600 .... and I beg you to check you have clicked in your email to my website here;


If your email has changed over the last two years I would appreciate you unsubscribing the old one and inputting the new because ...... the old ones bounce back at me and are a pain to handle in quantity.

ALSO ...... if you feel ok about it ..... I would be happy for you /if you recommend my web-site or/and blog to others.

ENDOFADMINISTRATIONHQNEWSANDNOWBACKTOREALLIFE

bhp

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...YMCA .. Week ...

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.... below is something I clicked for the met Region of the ymca ......... there is a new one every day this week from a different person ....

bhp

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YMCA & YMCA
INTERNATIONAL WEEK OF PRAYER

14th – 20th Nov 2004
A Week of Prayer item prepared by Pip Wilson formerly of Romford YMCA and currently supporting Kingston and Wimbledon YMCA and Welwyn YMCA amongst others.


"do something everyday that scares you"
my favourite fridge magnet
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"I slashed my arm to the bone"
A statement to me from a young man who I had 'known' for six months - but these were the first ever words spoken to me.
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"I am a spiritual person"
I am an alcoholic"
Two separate statements from a young man which were separated, proceeded, followed by nasal noises, grunts and unheard stutterings of a drunken soul.
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I cannot survive my work without reflecting.
Four books have come out of this.
I need to do it - even if nobody clicks those keys to read my reflections.
I need to put my soul through the shredder daily - and then put it back together in a new way to be able to move the next fat leg, the next step along 'the Road less Travelled'.
As I do this bit of reflecting - I will insert a few links below so, if you wish and have time, you yourself can go deeper ..........

I do my reflective practice on a weblog now http://pipwilsonbhp.blogspot.com/ sometimes called a "blog".
After years of paper trailing my reflections I want to say 'how it is' in public. Also I want to do something practical which comes from my favourite book ever:- 'Why am I afraid to tell you who I am'
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0883473232/104-1434854-8311935?v=glance
I want to tell anyone who wants to read 'who I am' and in that journey of discovery - how it is working out.
The truth is - I don't know who I am unless I take the mask off and examine the human behind the behaviour - I need to take my clothes off my soul.

Someone asked me recently - where do I get my wisdom.
Don't laugh!
My first thought was - get lost - you are asking the wrong person. Then I thought differently. I went deeper - I tried the 'eyes wide open' trick.
We all have wisdom - all have had unique lives AND still having ......
So I answered the question. http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/insight/page.php?id=260
In short - I said - I get what I yearn for by working - being - and becoming by feeling those who are fragile, hurting, damaged, homeless ............. because in that environment I myself discover who I am.
That is my take on 'wisdom'.

This 'week-of-prayer theme is about "Leading Change' and I love the title. Believing that we need to change all the time. That is why I yearn for disorder, dissatisfaction, unease, incompleteness and by pressing the refresh button often. Refresh the unease.

So the man with the slashed arm http://pipwilsonbhp.blogspot.com/2003_05_01_pipwilsonbhp_archive.html



I offer my all to him.

And the groups I lead .........
This risk stretches me – too.
This risk troubles me.
This risk hurts when I fail to do what I aimed for.
This risk hurts sometimes.
This risk is sometimes failure.
This risk fantastic at it’s best and better than that so often.
I never fail to be impressed at how humans can respond to challenge.
http://pipwilsonbhp.blogspot.com/2004_03_01_pipwilsonbhp_archive.html

And I am reminded that the greatest of us humans ...........
nothing in my hands I bring ......
it is not so much as what is in 'the hand'
- IT IS 'the hand',
the leg,
the body,
the heart
- the ...........
.................. every thing.

"God want what we have not what we haven't" - as is says in the Living Bible.

When I friend died during the last year I blogged about him.
About how great he was.
He was even more honest than that - read my blog about him:-
http://pipwilsonbhp.blogspot.com/2003_10_01_pipwilsonbhp_archive.html

..... and remember you are special and unique .....

bhp

www.pipwilson.com

Dance like no-one is watching
Sing like no-one is listening
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Love like you have never been hurt.



daily online diary/blog
http://pipwilsonbhp.blogspot.com/
................... I encourage you to subscribe to my regular e-newsletter here:-


http://www.pipwilson.com/Pages/E-Newsletter%20Page.html



The YMCA & YWCA Week of Prayer is marked in around
120 countries.

This year’s them is Leading Change.

Issued by:
David Myles
Regional Secretary
Metropolitan Region of YMCAs

07831 760658

david.myles@england.ymca.org.uk

.... it felt like ....

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......... Michael my friend has sent me these words .. ..... and I tink it is beautiful ....... for your soul ..... I offer ..........


THE FIRST OF THE GANG ......... MORRISSEY


you have never been in love
untill you've seen the stars
reflect in the reservoirs

and you have never been in love
until you've seen the dawn rise
behind the home for the blind

we are the pretty petty thieves
and your standing on our streets
where Hector was the first of the gang
with a gun in his hand
and the first to time
the first of the gang to die/oh my
Hector was the first of the gang
with gun in his hand
and the first to do time
the first of the gang to die/oh my

you have never been in love
until you've seen sunlight thrown
over smashed human bone

we are the pretty petty thieves
and your standing on our streets
where Hector was the first of the gang
with a gun in his hand
and the first to do time
the first of the gang to die
such a silly boy
Hector was the first of the gang
with a gun in his hand
and a bullet in his gullet
the first lost lad under the sod

and he stole from the rich and the poor
and the not-very-rich
and the very poor
and he stole all hearts away


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..I made one ..

maslow
Originally uploaded by Pip Wilson.

... of these out of a muesli box measure scoop - M&S actually .... but too tired to talk tonight so will see you tomorrow ...... is that a date?

Got caught up in the M25 shut down today - an oil tanker had overturned on Friday and there is four day clean up ...... a two hour journey turned - twisted - sad - tired - slow - into a nearly 5 hour journey through urban London ...... through Croydon, Streatham, Brixton, and the Tower Bridge ........ and home to lager lager Romford ....... stink ....... see you tomorrow.

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..Can Opener ...

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...... I am at the 'Can Opener' conference in Dunford House in Midhurst, W Sussex ............ we are opening the Can ...... it is a conference looking at the Christian and Spiritual issues within the ymca in England ........ funny .... I was born and always lived in England and yet I feel NOT English but of the world.

It was a slow day at first as I was in recovery from a busy week and then a slow drive here around the M25 which could be described as a 'car park' rather than a freeway!

We are opening the can in terms of looking at the issues around a Christian Movement which struggles to be and live out a distinctive faith.

I heard here that you can buy a shirt for £3 at a/s-da ..... confusing google .... who are owned by W-all stinking mart who rip off the poor around the world so you can buy trousers for £8 too.

Anita Rodick told us at Greenbelt that to shop at that supermarket ........ means we rob the poorest of the world so we get cheap clothes or/and food!

Working in hostels with homeless humans I am hearing constant words like these;

"I hate Christmas ......... "

It does me good to hear things like this and feel it.

I feel ok ....... but a little angry and yearning about life ...... I suppose it is about the rich and the poor and I am rich and feel the poor ........

He who was rich became poor .........

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..... excellent stuff on the Greenbelt website ....... the talk at the Sunday morning sevice which certainly inspired me enough to buy the cd's by Ched Myers .....
.......... read it when you have a moment ...... here


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...BEANS means ...

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Originally uploaded by Pip Wilson.

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..... here I am listening to U2 and prepping for a late-ish night tonight ...... and then into a week-end and I wonder if I will need to take the four big pair of knickers and the eight pair of womens tights ...... often come in handy at a week-end ........... don't let your imagination go too wild now ...... they are games equipment and I will take the 'Rizla Race' equipment - new game which will be a certainty for the week-end.

U2 wise ...... I will be recording all the live stuff on radio one next Tuesday as my Audio Hijack system comes into it's own and does the job of an old fashioned cassette tapex10!
I will then keep the recording for eternity (take to heaven with me! - or I guess - second thoughts ...... the band will be there playing non-stop eh? .......Yahwey)
I will then have it on/off my iPod at anytime I wish hey hey.

Last night I was tired and enjoyed two Czech beers of excellent quality and only one cigar. Too tired to blog - unusual for me ......... I usually cannot stop myself ..... I need to unload - record - reflect.

Yesterday I met with Martin/friend/book advisor/inspiration-originator of great things ..... we met in a Fair Trade Coffee shop in Covent Garden as I travelled home from work.
It is a High quality Fairtrade coffee shop in the Thomas Neal Centre, Earlham Street, London, WC2H 9LD from 10am to 7pm daily. By name Progreso.
Note this in you 'always with you note book'.

All Progreso coffees are certified Fairtrade and organic as well as approved by the Rainforest Alliance, which protects wildlife and natural resources.
I had one with a flavour ....... hmmm.
First and foremost, Progreso serves fantastic speciality coffee in an honest and soulful environment. It is indoors in a well amongst some trendy shops.
If you prefer there are Organic teas and Fairtrade fruit smoothies as well as pastries, sandwiches, soup, cold drinks, Fairtrade chocolate and yogurt with Fairtrade honey.
Why not give it a whirl if you are ever in the London Town? I could bumb into you because it will become ........ a regular meeting place. Because ......
..........Coffee growers are suffering through prices that have fallen 70 per cent since 1997. Millions of farmers have had their livelihoods destroyed but Fairtrade offers a solution. Certified Fairtrade coffee is already the fastest growing segment of the UK coffee market with consumers purchasing 2306 tonnes from shops and supermarkets in 2003. Progreso pricing is competitive. A regular latte or cappuccino is £1.90 and a single espresso costs £1.20.

Still cannot remember the flavour I had .......

My boots are on and feel a bit heavy after a summer of trainers ......

Yesterday, lastly, I created another new activity using an M&S scoop from a muesli box.
The group was fantastic and the debate and level 5 sharing of the soul was moving and life stretching/changing.
I will try to get these stubby fingers to type it out for you ........

..... thanx for being there AND ......... remember it is good that you are being there but better to be ............. 'becoming' there! :-)


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