Comments on: A cautionary tale http://www.windgrove.com/blog/a-cautionary-tale/ Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Inga Molzen http://www.windgrove.com/blog/a-cautionary-tale/comment-page-1/#comment-535 Inga Molzen Sun, 02 May 2010 10:24:54 +0000 http://www.windgrove.com/blog/?p=1703#comment-535 Peter. I love that sculpture and social transformation potential. It reminds me of some buxom woman riding the tidal waves of the earth and of ecstasy: her strong calves, bottom back and head and arms engaged and reaching out for a pile of precious flotsam jetsam that represent her life now. I wish you inspiriation too with the sculpture one day and for your forthcoming course at Schumacher College. I have a dream to visit Tasmania - such a beautiful wilderness. I am emigrating to Senegal for a while, where I wish to explore ways of bringing together visionary facilitators to protect the coastline, find sustainable employment within their communities, celebrate the rich local cultural heritage of craft and art and agriculture and freedom lived out. I hope to partner with other organisations and employ diverse systems and eminent social entrepreneurship community training colleges to do this. I wish to use social justice work of Manfred Max Neef, a personal mentor of mine, also Biodanza, the expressive resources in dance and life movement and well-being developed by Rolando Torro. I am intrigued by your own vision and also work of Schumacher College and would like to invite your input and friendship to support my own vision to address the "heritage of enslavement / s " from my new home-base, in Senegal. And, I have also a narrative-based social health Masters Degree called to be completed somewhere / somehow amidst the chaos of home and the world. Send you greetings from my still home in Southern Africa. Sorry to make a potentially un-ecofriendly suggestion - the bench reminds me of a flotsam jetsam surfboard - could it be reconstituted and preserved back into an living art-piece - moulded into a piece of all-weathering undulating fibreglass bench sculpture perhaps? Peter. I love that sculpture and social transformation potential. It reminds me of some buxom woman riding the tidal waves of the earth and of ecstasy: her strong calves, bottom back and head and arms engaged and reaching out for a pile of precious flotsam jetsam that represent her life now. I wish you inspiriation too with the sculpture one day and for your forthcoming course at Schumacher College. I have a dream to visit Tasmania – such a beautiful wilderness. I am emigrating to Senegal for a while, where I wish to explore ways of bringing together visionary facilitators to protect the coastline, find sustainable employment within their communities, celebrate the rich local cultural heritage of craft and art and agriculture and freedom lived out. I hope to partner with other organisations and employ diverse systems and eminent social entrepreneurship community training colleges to do this. I wish to use social justice work of Manfred Max Neef, a personal mentor of mine, also Biodanza, the expressive resources in dance and life movement and well-being developed by Rolando Torro. I am intrigued by your own vision and also work of Schumacher College and would like to invite your input and friendship to support my own vision to address the “heritage of enslavement / s ” from my new home-base, in Senegal. And, I have also a narrative-based social health Masters Degree called to be completed somewhere / somehow amidst the chaos of home and the world. Send you greetings from my still home in Southern Africa. Sorry to make a potentially un-ecofriendly suggestion – the bench reminds me of a flotsam jetsam surfboard – could it be reconstituted and preserved back into an living art-piece – moulded into a piece of all-weathering undulating fibreglass bench sculpture perhaps?

]]> By: Donald http://www.windgrove.com/blog/a-cautionary-tale/comment-page-1/#comment-361 Donald Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:21:18 +0000 http://www.windgrove.com/blog/?p=1703#comment-361 Peter, This puts me in mind of how much humanity has produced and then lost over the millennia. How many wonderful glorious and irreplaceable objects and other evanescent aspects of human culture (poems, languages, memories) have eroded away, been recycled (by us or the elements), or simply 'lost' (misplaced, overlooked, ruined)? We have both lived long enough on this planet Peter that the things we have created are rotting, breaking, falling away. Its bittersweet but as you say in your post implicate in life. Thanks for sharing the Shakespeare Bench's passing with us. Maybe it should simply be allowed to rot away entirely at the spot and a new piece made to replace it. Perhaps this is another form of maintenance? Peter,
This puts me in mind of how much humanity has produced and then lost over the millennia. How many wonderful glorious and irreplaceable objects and other evanescent aspects of human culture (poems, languages, memories) have eroded away, been recycled (by us or the elements), or simply ‘lost’ (misplaced, overlooked, ruined)?

We have both lived long enough on this planet Peter that the things we have created are rotting, breaking, falling away. Its bittersweet but as you say in your post implicate in life.

Thanks for sharing the Shakespeare Bench’s passing with us. Maybe it should simply be allowed to rot away entirely at the spot and a new piece made to replace it. Perhaps this is another form of maintenance?

]]> By: Caroline Flood http://www.windgrove.com/blog/a-cautionary-tale/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Caroline Flood Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:28:53 +0000 http://www.windgrove.com/blog/?p=1703#comment-55 Oh sadness. I loved sitting on that bench. I look forward to seeing its reincarnation. Oh sadness. I loved sitting on that bench. I look forward to seeing its reincarnation.

]]> By: Kate MacNicol http://www.windgrove.com/blog/a-cautionary-tale/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Kate MacNicol Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:48:44 +0000 http://www.windgrove.com/blog/?p=1703#comment-54 Nice One Pete..Love feeling Roaring emerge thur the ethers via your blog. What a magnificant treasure in which you dwell!! Where the picture of you'r bald top covered in red kisses?? Fun party Nice One Pete..Love feeling Roaring emerge thur the ethers via your blog. What a magnificant treasure in which you dwell!! Where the picture of you’r bald top covered in red kisses?? Fun party

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