From Retirement courses, Findhorn New Story Community, Joanna Macy, and The Work That Reconnects
In the Parker Palmer online course I had an excellent experience in the homework. I clearly identified the “Tragic Gap” that I wanted to live into. My note at the time says “It is the gap between the out-of-control industrial growth society we live in and a sustainable way going forward for humans to relate to the earth.” Then on 5/31/13 I wrote this note. “After writing the above I discovered Joanna Macy’s most recent book, Active Hope.
It’s precisely about finding one’s specific place to work from in dealing with the global crisis. I sent for the book, it came today. While waiting for it, I looked it up online and found out they are doing an online course in September. Perfect! That will give me time to read the book before the course.”
I loved the course, which was hosted by Chris Johnstone, Joanna’s co-author, and Barbara Ford. An added bonus was the technology was much better for integrating me into the community. I came out of it with a project to start a blog, which I called the Active Hope Support Group blog.
#7.3 of SA7. Retirement