Introduction to the Wise Word Virtual Blog.
Sometimes when you respond to a suggestion, make a commitment, and begin without first really understanding what is likely to happen, the result is surprising. I did just that, commit myself, writing and camera, to a project run by the two Canterbury based Universities named Wise Words. The objective was to involve older and younger people in the same group (for my part) and encourage them to share their own words of wisdom.
The wisdom was to come from the young to the old and from the old to the young in equal measure including, for our group, taking pictures to relate to what we wanted to say. To say that the result was surprising was the least of responses. In effect what happened on my part was that I enjoyed the writing, the company of the group and the revelations emerging not just from the other participants, but from my own virtual pen. The two facilitators added their portion to the exercise which culminated in having a part in the Wise Words Anthology, along with other groups, trainee teachers, and a sound engineering student, and an exhibition of the works and ideas as part of the 2012 Canterbury Festival.
Who would have thought that by responding to an e-mail that I would have embarked on yet another creative journey? Yet here it is: an idea to develop work from the Wise Words project with a view to carrying on a similar project based on the idea, and to put it into action on the Isle of Sheppey.
And as for the title?
Briefly, what happened was that in response to a question posed: write to your sixteen year old self as a person of eighty - what advice or directions would you give them.
I chose to create a hard copy blog - a non-virtual blog - which looked like a blog page, was written in similar fashion, including the inevitable photo, which seemed to work. In these pages I will replicate these pages in electronic form with the originals ready for view, and extend the project further.
Clever, eh?
I hope you will enjoy them.
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