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Dear {usertag:name}
Please welcome Chris Wright as a new member. Chris makes a continuous and on-going contribution to the development of the Transition movement in this North-West region of Brisbane and is one of the inspirational people for having the heart to go forward through the steep learning journey we are all on together.
Chris says: We have walked the path toward awareness sustainability and resilience for the past forty years. Established Transition The Gap a few years ago and have been inspired by Anne and John since then. Thank you for inviting us to join!
Chris has put himself down for the Energy and The Heart subgroups.
The Energy Subgroup is thriving. Meeting this Thursday evening 7:00pm at the Ferny Grove State High School in the Resource Centre.
Maybe we should be thinking about The Heart group as the next group to having community gatherings together. We really need people who want to be part of organising something for it to come forward. It would help if you would email me your interest preferably giving permission to share your email directly with others who are also prepared to be organisers then I can ‘hand you over to each other’ to get planning and making the magic happen
We have been given permission to share the attached poem by its author Neil Davidson. Hope you like it.
Brinkmanship
Brinkmanship
The art of holding your nerve
Longer
Longer than those who thought you would baulk;
Longer than those who love you will wait?
Resisting the urge to throw in the towel
To become one more failed environmentalist
Forced to give in to the system trap
Dont swerve as the lights get brighter
Wait for it the moment when the new path is first seen.
Bide your time read the lie of the land; find the patterns join the dots
Design a new way and use the incandescence of this civilisations final burst
to light the way for the next.
Resilience stretched taut til it snaps
Can you really just give-in; one more human weight to add to the masses?
One more soul closer to tipping point joining a dominant paradigm bent on destruction?
Is knowing a benefit or a burden?
Is resistance futile as nature is turned to poison?
If you can just hold your nerve
keep your head as others lose theirs
Is there really something you dont know?
Or is it something you know we all know but most darent believe?
Neil Davidson April 2011
Welcome to the journey together
Anne Tennock
Subgroup coordinator
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