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Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

I don’t often quote preachers but Thurman is a bit special and this advice went straight to the nub of my thinking today.
I’d applied for a job and convinced myself it was perfect for me - to cut a long story short I didn’t get it. It was worthwhile and interesting but I’m not at all sure I would have been doing that which makes me ‘come alive’.
Thurman had a lot to say about the importance of community and for me that’s one area that makes me come alive. Too much of my life has been standing on the brink watching slightly baffled by others’ ease in communities. On-line and off over the last 3 years I finally learned how to take part, contribute and even nurture communities. More of that has to be part of where I’m going next and what little there would have been in that job wouldn’t have been enough for me.

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Tell me a story
The Lakes

Debbie sat on the grey stone wall, lit a cigarette and looked into the sheep pen.
“It’s supposed to be art, right? All those leaves and twigs woven into a wreath and balanced on here? I don’t get it.”
Richard sighed. She was becoming a real pain. She’d done nothing but moan all week. The hills were too steep, the sun was too hot, the pubs were boring. Nothing was to her taste.

I decided to start publishing my short stories hosted on a wordpress.com blog. Am I bored this weekend? You think?!!!! Anyway it’s about time I started to do more with these stories than just leave them on my computer. I’m very impressed with the wordpress.com blog service. Slick and easy to use with several customisable themes.

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2005/6
BACHELOR OF ARTS WITH HONOURS
LEARNING, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH (ULTRAVERSITY)
FIRST CLASS

Confirmed today on e-vision.

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Andy has set up an instalation of Drupal on DARnet to explore how it might be used by communities and I’ve been playing around with it. At first it seemed quite counter-intuitive and annoying. Of course I always feel a bit like that about new software :-). First I get grumpy and hate it, then I start to wonder why it won’t do all the things I want it to straight away. Finally I realise I’m having quite a lot of fun playing around with it seeing what it can do.
Andy’s set it up so that anyone who wants to try out Drupal can create themselves a log in and have a play. Why not join in?

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