two strange days. i remenber leaving for school friday, 0600 h. woke up too late & had to cut the fresh baked bread too fast. at 1800 h i started to head for the ferry. heavy weather made a slow drive, dangerous too. i felt at ease nevertheless ; going for a visit to the starting up pm guilt in herne bay. i remember the empty ferry port site surrounded by 3 metres high barbed wire. the strange feeling that gave me. no mans land, a transfer zone, a no-place. i wandered in canterbury looking out for something to eat. at 0030 i arrived in herne bay and slept in my car. i woke up early, drank some tea and went to meet the sea.
we were 6. and most of us just did the pdc like some months ago. we talked about the vision and the mission of the group. i met with jo.
i went with no expectations, empty of what was to come. driving back to my place and looking back to what happened there is this feeling that we all talked from a different context. which is enriching. the formation of a group, the looking for its roots is a process which i like to observe. it is difficult to keep it simple. but maybe thats only my idea, maybe its me making it difficult. near the end of our meeting i proposed to do a workshop on website building. driving home i realized that every drive to the guilt costs me 70 pounds and 24 hours of precious time. and it struck me : the thirth principle – obtain a yield. why did i propose to do a workshop that costs me a lot ? i must admit i dont know. what i do know is that a website is an important thing for a group ,like this guilt to organize itself and the data it gathers. the past year i helped several transition towns and other organizations in the neighbourhood with their. that didnt cost them anything nor me. i think will propose the guilt to share my travelling cost. i learned a valuable lesson. thank you bert, thank you jo.