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Fifteen – Breathe In

There’s that mysterious dynamic, which is part fear and part excitement about what’s going to happen.  One of the things I always ask very early on in a workshop is, “Who’s going to create whatever we are going to create here?”  This is to make sure that they know it is they who are going to do it.  The Workshop Interviews  

Today is the day I officially become a pensioner. 43 years ago, way back in the last century, I got a job as an Assistant Playleader on a very rough adventure playground in London. There was an irony to my job title. There was only me working on the playground.

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Fourteen – Mothering Invention

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.  Mark Twain.

“When you get to the Parma Station go to the café just outside such and such exit and wait there where somebody will come and pick you up.” These were the simple instructions. The café in question was the sort of place with a pinball machine that looked like Noah had used it on the ark and where patrons didn’t so much walk to the bar as lurch towards it. People didn’t come in, characters entered.

Two travellers – there are three masks: the one we think we are, the one we really are and the one we have in common.
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