What I find inspiring about the Transition Movement is that it’s about “doing it for ourselves”. Not waiting, theorising, despairing, but getting on with it.
There is danger here. I worry about us creating parallel communities rather than engaging with existing ones. I try to apply a test to what I get involved in socially and work-wise: are we looking out rather than in, are we reaching out rather than sticking to the familiar pattern, which inevitably looks inward?
We are trying to co-opt new directors to our local community trust from a wide range of backgrounds. (I have been recently brought in as part of this process). We are having another DIY Health and Wellbeing day at Tarbert Health Centre on Saturday 29th November where we’ll be making our own Christmas/Solstice decorations from locally gathered materials. These two distinct but linked activities “feel” right: they pass the test.
So – come along on the 29th, or think with us and make your own celebratory object. I’ll actually be teaching on a permaculture course at Kilmartin, but I’ll be making contribution prior to the event. Happy “do it ourselving”…DIO
