3rd April we planted a bird table in our garden at Wilson Mansions.
No birds.
Nuts, seeds, coconut, bath, shower, soap, helter-skelter, spectators and .....
no birds
NO BIRDS

One week in, we had the squirrel eating the nuts.
Today
TODAY
we saw birds enter into the food zone.
Blue Tit
Robin
another tit,
(........I am not good with birds.)
The all landed and pecked a little hey hey.
Perhaps there has been positive word of mouth in the community?
Positive word of beak?
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Hello you beautiful human.
Do you feel beautiful?
Just pause here and place a word alongside your current feeling.
If it is a big one - you will know it, feel it and be able to name it.
If it is just simmering below the surface - more difficult.


I am really keen on this Emotional Literacy stuff.
It is so vital.
Being illiterate is not a good thing.
Especially with our emotions.
They are so close to our spirituality.
So close, therefore, to our soul.
The heart of the matter.

Me?
You ask ...........

Felt a bit low key tonight.
Feel a bit disturbed/troubled/restless.
I am prepping a gig and it churns the soul.
Creatively
but also I have to dig deep on resources.
Scratch the soul.
I have felt full of energy today.
Now .......................
I also feel focused - in tiredness.

Met with my friend Martin today in a Kosovan Cafe in the heart of London.
If you ever want to meet me in London.
That is the place.
It is a hop skip and a jump from Leicester Square.

We talked and talked and flowed and flowed.
He is a great man.
I respect him deeply.
We have done things together,
shows at Greenbelt, meetings - lots,
prayed over crumbling financial concerns
struggled to apply faith and life into reality.
It has been months since we met - last year in fact.
loveitloveitloveit ...............

I didn't tell you about my visit to the Homeopothist.
She asked me questions for one and a half hours.
I loved it
Some have never been asked of me before.
That was Tuesday and by Saturday I had some medicine.
Two drops of 'whatever it is' on my tongue every bedtime
and some v small, tiny, pills to take if I ever get an attack.
I have more faith here than in the Doctors.
I need to return after four weeks.

Joy, Sheila, texted me tonight and asked me to go to New York City for a few days while she is there.
As if.
She goes Sunday - I laughed but also hit by her generosity.
She is a Dad lover.
The other Sheila, Ann, started a new TV job today - some new concept.
Great to have two Dad lovers ........
It is great talking to the Sheilas when they 'phone.

The Jigsaw Blob new idea - Steve is working on a wooden version and I am excited.
Would love to show you - maybe in a Kosovan Cafe?

I am rambling ................ but I don't care.
I am getting it all out of the system.

Hope you are listening to my Blog Music?
Hope you have good speakers plugged in?
Hope you are plugged in to great vibes which impact life?
Hope you are plugged in ..............

Met with Ian Long, my Blob Tree partner, - we climb it together.
He was telling me we now have about 400 blob tools now - wow.
All of them used all over the world - only small pockets of knowledge of their existence.
All on my iPhone and it is fab to see them portable.

There are loads of books existing::
The Big Book of Blobs.
Blob Feelings.
Little Book of Blob Questions
Blob Spirituality
You are a beautiful human person
and more ............

And we have posters big/massive
laminated and colour!!
I hope we will have Ball to throw around soon - all with Blobs and great for fun and opening up humans.
Also a Jigsaw Puzzle!!
Publishers are Incentive Plus and Lulu dot com.

We had a great meeting and loads of new ideas coming out of Ian,
who works in a School, and myself from a Training and Group work context.
We are going for a Blob Bible, a Blob Training Manual, Big Book of Blob Youthwork, Blob Emotional Literacy, Blob Questions and more and more.

If you are user, fan, Educationalist, Informal Educator, Counsellor, Trainer, Qualitative Researcher, People Person, Psychologist, Group Worker/Leader, Team Leader - any or more than these - please feel free to mention these tools in your Blog/Web-site or any situation you feel able. I would love it if these tools became better known around the globe. I can send you a pile of leaflets if you can leave them hanging out somewhere.

I had sixteen ideas in my little Life Book. We talked and talked and yearned and become ..................... continued in the process of becoming .....



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Angel Sarkis has departed from the top job in YMCA England

I clicked about her appointment in 2006::

8th June 2006
Angela Sarkis
..... has just been appointed as The National Secretary of YMCA England. That means she is CEO of the Central body which about 200 autonomous YMCA's affiliate to.
She is CEO of the head* - but not the body ......... that is why every human who has ever done the job has ............
......... needed to breathe deeply - often!



"I am an independent consultant with particular interest in organisational management, leadership development and diversity.

I have worked in many voluntary organisations, the public sector, faith communities and charitable trusts, including stints at the Probation Service and Family Service Units, around five years as Chief Executive of the Church Urban Fund and as a founding member of the Social Exclusion Unit.

Heavily involved in urban regeneration programmes, I have been trustee to BBC Children in Need, Youth Net UK and the King's Fund, and contributed in various ways to various Government and other committees and advisory groups, including the Home Office's Correctional Services Board and Active Community Unit Advisory Panel, the House Of Lords Appointments Commission, the Department for Education and Skills, the NCVO Diversity Project, and the African Caribbean Evangelical Alliance."

* ...... it could be she will be the CEO of the heart - or the soul - or the mouth ...... maybe only what the movement wishes.
So - it is a big job!!

So - the YMCA, in these parts, is left with an issue x more::

Why are leaders leaving the job/pushed/jumped?
Does the YMCA in England need a National body?
Does it need a small, two humans and a desk type of structure - or a multi faceted structure?

I am much removed from the scene now. Used to be a National Board member for a few years. Still concerned about the profile/image/national work including it's connectivity with the World YMCA.


bBlessed Angela
bBlessed all YMCA humans ....... there is a great job to be done by all .......

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The Little Book of Blob Questions

by Pip Wilson
Ian Long

Share This Report this item Preview this book View Back Cover Publisher: ian long Copyright: © 2006 Standard Copyright License Language: English Country: United Kingdom

Download £2.76 Paperback book £5.56 (1303 kb) Download: 1 documents, 1303 KB Printed: 28 pages, 6.14" x 9.21", saddle-stitch binding, black and white interior ink Description: The Little Book of Blobs is the companion book to the Big Book of Blobs (available from www.blobtree.com) and explains how to use questions effectively with others. Using the Blob Tree visual it crosses all boundaries of gender, culture, and language. Small at 28 pages, but beautiful.

powerfull
massive
radical
spiritual
passionate
emotional .......

Nina Simone returning to play live after a 10 year break.
She had left the USA, who gave her a rough time because of her politcal/civil right passion, and she went to live in Africa.

Buy it
watch it loud
in a dark room
I weep ..........

Nina Simone made four appearances at the Montreux Festival
between 1968 and 1990. This DVD features the whole performance
from 1976 as the main feature and is supplemented by bonus
features of two tracks from her concert in 1987 and four from her
final show in 1990.
This is the definitive Nina Simone Live At Montreux DVD.
Tracklisting
1976
1. Little Girl Blue
2. Backlash Blues
3. Be My Husband
4. I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel to be Free)
5. Stars / Feelings
6. African Mailman
Bonus Tracks
1987
7. Someone to Watch Over Me
8. My Baby Just Cares For Me
1990
9. I Loves You Porgy
10. Liberian Calypso
11. Four Women / Mississippi Goddam
12. Ne Me Quitte Pas (Don't Leave Me)

.... going to zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ............

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I have 183 messages in my inbox
certainly not boasting.
It is because I was sick/ill/outofsorts/gastromad last week
I apologize to all the beautiful humans who have emailed me
like pouring water into sand
apologies
I am in tomorrow so I will get a chance to click ........

Fantastic article HERE about
John O'Donohue.

I feel Greenbelt in it .....