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How can I best serve my community?
This is a question that I have asked myself wherever I live. It brings up many interesting answers. It also invites me to ask people in the community how I can best serve it or rather, them.
As I am new to this site and this village (even though I am physically living just outside Forest Row, my head and heart are most definitely in it and our intention is to move in when the time is right), I thought I would write down some of my thoughts to give you a better idea of where I am coming from. I write them in bullet points so that you can take in the ideas more easily. (I find that prose requires more commitment of a reader).
At this stage, it is my intention simply to find out about this village....talk to people...see if there's an action research project that I can undertake that will simultaneously help the people in the village and help me
# This form of online blogging and investigative writing is often called autoethnography in acadamic terms and is practised by many independent thinkers and investigators throughout the world (see www.ms.lt)
# I am open to expressing who I am in the public domain
# By expressing who I am in the public domain, then perhaps others will feel more comfortable in doing so
# I am fascinated by questions and where they lead us
# I have many questions
# When I lived in Guildford, I spent a few weeks walking around town, saying 'hello' to people and asking where I could find the wise people
# They sent me to the university and the MP
# Where do the wise people of Forest Row live?
# Is it right to even ask the question, as we are all wise and dumb in our own unique ways?
# Someone entering a community from the 'outside' who is asking questions can be perceived as an agitator, a fly in the ointment, and therefore be rejected by that community
# Someone who lives in the community and is established or known can ask difficult questions and be accepted, even praised for it
# One plays the role of a catalyst and the other is an enzyme
# I look forward to meeting and talking with many of you in person
As I am new to this site and this village (even though I am physically living just outside Forest Row, my head and heart are most definitely in it and our intention is to move in when the time is right), I thought I would write down some of my thoughts to give you a better idea of where I am coming from. I write them in bullet points so that you can take in the ideas more easily. (I find that prose requires more commitment of a reader).
At this stage, it is my intention simply to find out about this village....talk to people...see if there's an action research project that I can undertake that will simultaneously help the people in the village and help me
# This form of online blogging and investigative writing is often called autoethnography in acadamic terms and is practised by many independent thinkers and investigators throughout the world (see www.ms.lt)
# I am open to expressing who I am in the public domain
# By expressing who I am in the public domain, then perhaps others will feel more comfortable in doing so
# I am fascinated by questions and where they lead us
# I have many questions
# When I lived in Guildford, I spent a few weeks walking around town, saying 'hello' to people and asking where I could find the wise people
# They sent me to the university and the MP
# Where do the wise people of Forest Row live?
# Is it right to even ask the question, as we are all wise and dumb in our own unique ways?
# Someone entering a community from the 'outside' who is asking questions can be perceived as an agitator, a fly in the ointment, and therefore be rejected by that community
# Someone who lives in the community and is established or known can ask difficult questions and be accepted, even praised for it
# One plays the role of a catalyst and the other is an enzyme
# I look forward to meeting and talking with many of you in person
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Comment by Rowena on May 8, 2009 at 1:52pm - Thoroughly enjoyed our chat yesterday - please drop round any time - and if you are dressed for muck spreading also so much the better!
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