I
scribbled these thoughts down to try and shut up my over-whirring
mind over several nights! It is addressed to myself as much as anyone
else. I hope it will be read as positive and constructive, and of
course, as just one view amongst many in a dynamic community. I also
hope that the line about antithesis makes sense – the bit after the
'not' isn't (necessarily) negated, rather the bit before is given
emphasis (to different degrees!) Life, for example, can also be
lovely!
Community: tea not I-commune
Barns: ploughs not
furniture
Resilience store:
people not stuff
Visitors: people not
profit
Vision: now not then
Mess: less not more
Energy: low not
draining
Influence: pull not
push
Intelligence: emotional
not quotient
Sustainability: shoots
not loans
Communication: ears not
mouth
Budget: Micawber's
words not actions
Land: anyone's actions
not words
Courses: inspection not
instruction
Question: enquiry not
inquisition
Decisions: consensual
not contrived
Mistakes: digested not
repeated
Leaders: none not some
Animals: welfare not
none
Talk: small not schemes
Trelay: real not be all
Me: sorry not cross
Antithesis: synthesis
not anti
Love: empathise not
emphasize
Kindness: warmth not
wisdom
Life: learning not
lovely
Death: beginnings not
end
Hope: better not worse
Truth: all will be well
not everything's sweet
27/3/2013
