Dear Christine,

Very glad you enjoyed it.

Yes, do feel free to get back to me whenever you wish.

Bringing my innermost thoughts and feelings into the open does make me 
apprehensive, knowing the way our culture currently works and pokes fun, if 
not much worse, at what it doesn't like or understand. But I also have the 
prickling feeling, especially as an educator, of 'what is life for, if not 
to share one's experience, even and especially painful experience, for all 
to learn from?' I also think that creativity is not a possession, but what 
flows through our unique local identities from the non-locality of 
everywhere. This makes the kind of creativity and vulnerability that wants 
to hide itself away in a dark corner extremely understandable but 
ultimately self-defeating. Those thoughts and feelings have spurred me on 
to display my work in public. Even if no-one then notices, it brings me 
some relief to know at least that I've tried to make it available.


Warmest

Alan





--On 11 April 2008 09:46 +0100 "STANDING, Christine" <[log in to unmask]> 
wrote:

>
>
>
> Dear Alan - and all,
>
> Thank you for this.  It was very touching, and broke into a difficult
> moment I was having.  Frankly, my response was to think about running
> away from my city dwelling and go back to a more natural way of being.
> (I used to be a Warden in the English Lake District.  My own patch was
> two hundred square miles and I loved it, painted it and relaxed into it.)
> On the other hand I have a thesis to write!
> I loved the Te Ahukaramu Charles Royal piece and I visited
> www.inclusional-reseaarch.org
>
> Suddenly I feel like a child at a party with loads of good things on
> view;  I don't know what to taste first!  The paintings were
> inspirational.  Many of your thoughts had resonance within my 'world' too.
>
> How does it feel to have your thoughts and feelings 'out there'?
> (Because I have some trepidation about doing that myself.)
>
> Can I get back to you once I've absorbed it more?
>
> Best wishes,
> Christine
>
>
> On 10 Apr 2008, at 16:54, Alan Rayner (BU) wrote:
>
> Dear Jack, Christine and All,
>
> 'Coincidentally', a correspondent just sent me the following extract from:
>
> INDIGENOUS WORLDVIEWS
> A Comparative Study
> A Report on Research in progress by
> Te Ahukaramu Charles Royal
> For
> Ngati Kikopiri
> Te Wananga-o-Raukawa
> Te Puni Kokiri-Ministry for Maori Development
> Fulbright New Zealand
> Winston Churchill Memorial Trust
>
>
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