How thrilling, Gail! Congratulations!<br>Carol<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Gail West <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:icataiw@ms69.hinet.net">icataiw@ms69.hinet.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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:<br>
- 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."<br>
- 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."<br>
- 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".<br>
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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.<br>
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Gail<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Best regards,<br><br>Carol Hiltner<br>Founder, Altai Mir University<br>206-525-2101 (US)<br>913-462-6912 (Novosibirsk)<br><a href="mailto:carol.hiltner@gmail.com">carol.hiltner@gmail.com</a><br>
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