Self-Organization For Sure

[Carol Hiltner]

How thrilling, Gail! Congratulations!
Carol

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Gail West <icataiw at ms69.hinet.net> wrote:

> Shu-fang and I spent a cold but sunny weekend in Taitung, south eastern
> Taiwan doing one of series of open space events in an on-going series for a
> county-wide community development project.   A participant in one of the
> earlier OS events decided to have one in his own community before Chinese
> New Year.  Memorable moments for me:
> - Several consultants doing research for future planning for the county
> attended.  When one of them gave some ideas in one of the discussion groups,
> the reply was "we've already done that - and more."
> - In another discussion a suggestion was made to put up a sign to help
> tourists find where they want to go.  As we began the closing circle several
> people ran outside to meet a truck that just drove up outside delivering
> just such a sign that had been ordered earlier. Their message - "we know
> what to do (not just talk).  All we need is more participation and the time
> to get things done."
> - The venue was the Elders Center so there was some coming and going all
> day.  Two quite elderly ladies came with a caretaker for their Sunday foot
> massage and stayed long enough to sit in on one session and add further
> comments to the newswall report on the topic of "How to care for elders".
>
> A great day which ended with visiting the sponsor's family organic farm,
> picking passion and starfruit and coming home loaded with fruit and
> vegetables - and eagerly awaiting the next event.
>
> Gail
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Best regards,

Carol Hiltner
Founder, Altai Mir University
206-525-2101 (US)
913-462-6912 (Novosibirsk)
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