ONE AND TWO AND CLICK .......

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... are you a bit- or a lot- like this?

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............. well ........ what can I say?
Have been spending time with workers who work with humans in need. Some are really under pressure dealing with humans in need and line managing staff working under pressure.
At the same time ......
I feel I am valued and appreciated.

Being a Consultant, sounds grand and not 'me' really, I am on the fringe of an organisation. I am not a manager but I bring all of me- including experience of such work AND current practice.
The passion too.
I do feel passionate and I have no need to pretend.

Commuting like a rat in tunnels under London :) - is not my ideal - four hours today hey hey.

If you live in the UK ...... I hope you will get out and stinking vote.

see you tomorrow ............. and stay forever beautiful .....


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Richard leaves to go back to India on Saturday ....

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.... I remember ......

He was kissed 27 times at the YMCA festival in Prague IN 2003!
Seven thousand young souls ....

I was running a dance music based wild session in a big top called 'rolling magazine worship' and one item of fun, mixed in the magazine of many deep and fun items, was an opportunity for someone to be kissed because it was the persons birthday.

It could have been a young thirteen year old teenager BUT
we had a line of 27 girls and boys all giving Richard a kiss.

Love it!

He is a great man.

See you back here soon Richard - we hope and pray ...... and do things .....


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2nd May 2005

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..... this is my favourite birthday card - from Joan ..... may well be consumed when on holiday next week .......

As holidays loom ......... I will be pausing to look at the rest of my human life ........... when something is on my mind I need to examine it.
Unpack the soul.
Yearn into the future.
Not just live for the day .......

My Mission remains the same .............
Mission is not my employment.
But my employment and other things I do is always changing.

1 I want to continue to work closely in contact with those who are at the bottom end of society. I believe I have something to offer and I love the challenge because it stretches me in my becoming.

2 I want to facilitate those workers who work with them.
I have training abilities and I buzz with the interaction among such humans.

3 I am not a teacher.
I am a facilitator.
Informal educator.

4 I am currently employed by NGO's and the other work I do is regularly or as one off.

5 I intend to publish soon so keep your eyes here to find out first.

6 Life is uncertain ...... but I yearn for that .....

..... and I appreciate that you have taken the trouble to click this way - it is like someone joining you on part of a journey ............ and I don't want to journey alone ...... so appreciation to you - and liveinwonder

bhp

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.... CAN YOU CONSIDER GOING TO GREENBELT ?

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..... I think it is the best thing on earth ....... it could be a great step in your life ........ it is that for me everyday ....... not just every year ....

www.greenbelt.org.uk


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A YEAR AGO TODAY - A YEAR AGO TODAY ..

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.......... I am in an 'end of the w/e feeling' ...... it has been a good w/e and today has been catching up with inbox and domestics.
The other three days I have been out and doing.

Come Saturday we will be going on our annual holiday to, hopefully, the sun. Music - books - time together - texts to the Sheilas - swimming - nothing ........
So strange a week it is however - and it will be strange to move from winter clothes to a summer attire?
I still have my winter boots on and a tee under my shirt.
Roll on the shorts.

I am feeling ok but a bit strange as I approach a break. So much of my life is focused on mission and my non working time is always fused with my yearning to live and learn. I will enjoy a great break but am aware it will be a turnaround of the lifestyle. Love it love it ...

Leaving you with .....

Man, do you think yours is the only soul?
Look around you.
Everything that you see quivers with being.
Though your thoughts are free,
one thing you do not think about;
the whole.
GÃ'rard de Nerval


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.... OBSESSIVE .........

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..... I snapped these two today ....

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..... .. people who know me - know I am a snapper.
I take photos.

Today I snapped these two attractive young women walking down Piccadilly in Central London Town.
I followed them taking pictures.
I have about ten ....................

These beautiful women are the daughters of Joan my wife.
And me!
Hard to believe eh?

I love em.
I have asked them to forgive me for not being the sort of Father I would have liked to be.
They said yes.

We had a great meal out today and a bottle of Champagne of course - a day of celebration.

loveitloveitloveit love em

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TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ....

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............. twenty years ago today I started work at Romford YMCA which was to my job and mission for 18 years and a home to for four of us -Joan, Joy and Ann.

We had been at the Mayflower Family Centre in East London for ten years. The toughest job I have ever done. I was battered and resilience was low. Still had lots of passion and imagination.
EXAMPLE;
I asked before I started that a cupboard right next to the Y's Diner, which I considered to be the heart of this big YMCA, to be turned into an office so I can be amongst people - at the heart.

This project was an 11 story tower block housing 150 young people and extensive activity, sports and youth programme space on the ground floor. Our Flat was on the second floor. I remember standing with Joan and looking through the window of our Flat Lounge - facing us was a brick wall - the outside wall of the sports hall which went higher than the second floor. If we stood close to the glass and looked left - we could see a patch of green grass and a canal type cutting which was the River Rom. We were delighted to be in such an open environment because we had come from a tough urban environment which was all concrete. We hardly had a tree around to display the changing seasons.

Lots of memories flood ....... I will recall only two at this moment.

I used to work mornings and evenings. Regularly Joan and I used to walk into Romford town centre in the afternoon. We talked about the feeling of liberation.

I soon started a regular Monday night programme. At eleven pm every Monday I set up a corner of the lounge with TV and showed a short 5 minute video with view to starting a discussion. It did. It run and run ......... many fine relationships began and developed there.

I always worked to make this a community with a climate of trust. A place of becoming .....

NOT
..... a community like a jar full of marbles.
(If you put your hand in and remove one marble - the rest rattle into place and the removal is hardly noticed).

BUT
...... a community like a honeycomb.
( .... if you remove one module of a honeycomb the removal damages at least six others and it hurts.)
That is the sort of community I have had as my mission.
Beautiful but feeling the hurts.
Everyone matters.
All valuable.
Unique ............


hmmm ........ a reflection I did not intend but the feelings are deep but positive .....

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