When we think,speak,write,communicate it seems to me that humankind soon begins to explain the complexities and subtleties of thinks as analogy and metaphor,with metaphor probably being the extended form of analogy.The way it comes out is that anything can become anything else,everything is everything else which might,wrongly give the impression that nothing is differentiated,nothings has meaning but then that would miss the subtlety and complexity of what humankind does and is.
From that beginning,for me,it might be said that Life itself can be seen as a long winding,narrow path.I do not see it as a straight wide boulevard or tarmacked road but like a path through the countryside,through the grass across the fields,that many of us have made along with the animal lives we share our planet with across time.These paths are familiar to those who use or know them,but they are not always obvious.Part of living is that we have to rediscover,and sometimes reinvent those ways,and we also have to innovate and develop them.
It seems to me that,that for those of us who have an activist view of the world-that we can make and change it,that we are not simply bystanders,acted on,watching others act on us,then we have a similar situation in relation to our own activism.It includes the remaking and refinement,a re-galvanising and re-energising of our activity.
At present,as an activist in a number of campaigns,it seems to me to apply to my own level of activity in relation to CON/counter olympics network-that is MY problem,and in a different way to the CSFHC/Counihan-Sanchez Family Housing Campaign.
What follows then are MY thoughts.I claim nothing for them beyond that,although i hope they resonate for other people.I have no particular authority in these thoughts.I simply think and write them in the hope that i can continue to make a constructive contribution to the growth and development of the campaign......
(work in progress to be continued)
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