This weekend was filled with inspiration. On Saturday, Dani and I met with our good friend, Wendy and her husband, Olivier. We have known Wendy for three years now, through INSPIRIT's work for her in supporting the facilitation of a meeting of communities from Salahutu in Maluku. The meeting itself was a challenging one, and I can still vividly remember the events of that occasion as if it had just happened last week.
A long story for a different blog entry, what I remember most from that event was walking behind Wendy as we went to the hall where she was going to announce to the participants that the meeting was going to be "postponed indefinitely". I can still see her carrying this enormous weight on her shoulders, physically as well as emotionally. Then just before she was about to enter the hall, she took a deep breath, straightened her back, and holding her chin up walked confidently into the hall. The rest of her team, following her example, mustered as much strength as possible to do the same...but we all knew how we were all emotionally shaking inside. Not due to fear, though there was probably some element of that as well. But mostly due to disappointment in what was supposed to have been a celebration of reconciliation was tainted by negative energy.
A bond was created that day between us. One that will always...simply...be.
It took three years for us to meet up again, but happily Wendy and Olivier are back living in Indonesia. And we met yesterday, and were re-energized by simply being together!!
Can you imagine what creative mischief we will come up with!!!!! Watch out...here we come....!!!!
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