Sunday, April 02, 2006
To moot community blog or not to moot community blog
To echo the conversation about community blogs in other places, I want to say that I really value the thoughts and issues raised on this blog, which challenge and bring insights from different perspectives that help me and I hope 'us' grow.
However, it is often an Ian & Gareth show, and is sometimes impoverished by not containing the thoughts and content of other members of moot's diverse perspectives. To be frank, we need more voices here that reflect the moot community. Women especially. There are no rules about what is in and what is out - except the focus on the spiritual - but that can be interpreted very widely, and there is no censor.
So this communal space, a rare space, and for me a treasured space is open to the contributions of any and all in or on the margins of this little thing called moot, and for the whole world to respond to these contributions.
As a communal space - a point of connection in all our buisness and dislocation, provides a creative space of connection to challenge, inspire and connect in a somewhat counter-cultural way about our shared-ness.
So please do no self-censor for fear that your stuff is boring or they will be fed up with a b or c, or ridiculous thoughts of not being 'cool enough'. If you are passionate about something, or have written an essay or as Mike has done recently, written poetry - infact what ever, I for one would really appreciate the love and attention to sharing such stuff. The I and I think we, can then grow and get beyond the things that swirl in our own heads that often become a little self-directed, but instead, experience other thoughts that bring challenge and often the presence of the divine in interaction with individuals - that resource all ourselves, and if I maybe so bold to say, our shared spiritual stories.
In so doing we all benefit, and we all grow - and that the Moot blog, can then truly reflect the sometimes numinous of God's presence in the cyber - through the gathered communal honesty of the hopes, dreams and questions of those on a spiritual journey....
However, it is often an Ian & Gareth show, and is sometimes impoverished by not containing the thoughts and content of other members of moot's diverse perspectives. To be frank, we need more voices here that reflect the moot community. Women especially. There are no rules about what is in and what is out - except the focus on the spiritual - but that can be interpreted very widely, and there is no censor.
So this communal space, a rare space, and for me a treasured space is open to the contributions of any and all in or on the margins of this little thing called moot, and for the whole world to respond to these contributions.
As a communal space - a point of connection in all our buisness and dislocation, provides a creative space of connection to challenge, inspire and connect in a somewhat counter-cultural way about our shared-ness.
So please do no self-censor for fear that your stuff is boring or they will be fed up with a b or c, or ridiculous thoughts of not being 'cool enough'. If you are passionate about something, or have written an essay or as Mike has done recently, written poetry - infact what ever, I for one would really appreciate the love and attention to sharing such stuff. The I and I think we, can then grow and get beyond the things that swirl in our own heads that often become a little self-directed, but instead, experience other thoughts that bring challenge and often the presence of the divine in interaction with individuals - that resource all ourselves, and if I maybe so bold to say, our shared spiritual stories.
In so doing we all benefit, and we all grow - and that the Moot blog, can then truly reflect the sometimes numinous of God's presence in the cyber - through the gathered communal honesty of the hopes, dreams and questions of those on a spiritual journey....
