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Hello friends,
Today, March 20, 2012 was a very sunny day with very pleasant temperatures. So we made the most of the day and went for a walk in the park close to home to have tea and take some sun.
At 18h Yüksel and Mustafa came home with 300 books of Silo’s Message in Turkish. It was a very special moment, a milestone and the end of a long period of translations, revisions, re-revisions, etc.
What joy to hold the book in our hands. Furthermore, it is beautiful.
We had chai and sweets with Yüksel and Mustafa and we showed him the poster and the editor’s news in Turkish they had not seen yet. We made sure they knew how to download the file of the poster and we sent it and Publisher News to their emails. Now we are waiting for the file of the press kit so that everything will be printed by tomorrow.
At 19h, Zehra arrived and half an hour later Mehtap, we had a date with them to continue the issue of fairs and tours. Huseyin and Yüksel also came and Huseyin was on the computer to fill in the spreadsheet with the list of bookstores with addresses and phone numbers.
In the meantime, in the kitchen, Mehtap and Zehra were working on the abovementioned issue. We agreed that there will be pictures in the stand in the Ankara fair, together with small tales in Turkish and English for the blog. Zehra, Mehtap and Altug will be at the stand this week end and Zehra also on Friday. During the week, our friends will support whenever they can, because they all work.
They asked how to present the book and we explained that we don’t know, but that there are very beautiful and informative texts in the kit and Publisher News , with information on Silo and more. That it would be wonderful if there could be some kind of testimony of their experiences with the Message and maybe we could suggest to do a ceremony so the people could have an experience themselves.
We also talked about the need of a distance communication so that we can follow how the calendar will fill up with presentation events in various places. Cafés, libraries, cultural centers, etc. Mehtap is willing to take care of this. Zehra will talk to her husband who is active in Ankara’s Alevi center. Well, giving images and interchanging on possibilities. We also said it would be very interesting if all of the friends who have family and friends in other cities, inform them about the tours asking for their help. We know we need translators and we have few and it would be necessary to cover all cities. So this issue is also included in asking friends and family for help.
There was also an interesting proposal. It seems that in August there is a three day Alevi festival in a place called Hacibektas (August 16, 17 and 18) and Mehtap and Zehra want us to do something there as well and are willing to go there. We agreed to give news of this to our friends abroad who can’t come in June or July, but could participate in August. Furthermore, they said, supported by Huseyin, we could organize a mini tour in august, including other interesting festival places. So it was very animated.
In the meantime Altug called to see how we were. Very nice.
At 20:30 we decided to have dinner which Peter had prepared before and the conversations continued while we were eating. Mehtap proposed some ceremonies. So we moved to the salita and Zehra guided the Service and Well being with the printed book. It was a very beautiful and intimate atmosphere, very calm and smooth. At the end there was a lot of happiness, hugs of joy.
Mehtap and Zehra left at 22h and Peter and Yüksel continued with the list of libraries. The first list is ready but many are still missing. Yüksel was not satisfied with the libraries he had on his list and wanted to find better ones.
So he will put more information during the coming days and send back the file.
So, this is it for today. Tomorrow there will be the weekly meeting of experiences and we hope many friends will attend.
Un fuerte abrazo,
Yüksel, Mehtap, Zehra, Huseyin y Peter
Hello friends,
Today, March 20, 2012 was a very sunny day with very pleasant temperatures. So we made the most of the day and went for a walk in the park close to home to have tea and take some sun.
At 18h Yüksel and Mustafa came home with 300 books of Silo’s Message in Turkish. It was a very special moment, a milestone and the end of a long period of translations, revisions, re-revisions, etc.
What joy to hold the book in our hands. Furthermore, it is beautiful.
We had chai and sweets with Yüksel and Mustafa and we showed him the poster and the editor’s news in Turkish they had not seen yet. We made sure they knew how to download the file of the poster and we sent it and Publisher News to their emails. Now we are waiting for the file of the press kit so that everything will be printed by tomorrow.
At 19h, Zehra arrived and half an hour later Mehtap, we had a date with them to continue the issue of fairs and tours. Huseyin and Yüksel also came and Huseyin was on the computer to fill in the spreadsheet with the list of bookstores with addresses and phone numbers.
In the meantime, in the kitchen, Mehtap and Zehra were working on the abovementioned issue. We agreed that there will be pictures in the stand in the Ankara fair, together with small tales in Turkish and English for the blog. Zehra, Mehtap and Altug will be at the stand this week end and Zehra also on Friday. During the week, our friends will support whenever they can, because they all work.
They asked how to present the book and we explained that we don’t know, but that there are very beautiful and informative texts in the kit and Publisher News , with information on Silo and more. That it would be wonderful if there could be some kind of testimony of their experiences with the Message and maybe we could suggest to do a ceremony so the people could have an experience themselves.
We also talked about the need of a distance communication so that we can follow how the calendar will fill up with presentation events in various places. Cafés, libraries, cultural centers, etc. Mehtap is willing to take care of this. Zehra will talk to her husband who is active in Ankara’s Alevi center. Well, giving images and interchanging on possibilities. We also said it would be very interesting if all of the friends who have family and friends in other cities, inform them about the tours asking for their help. We know we need translators and we have few and it would be necessary to cover all cities. So this issue is also included in asking friends and family for help.
There was also an interesting proposal. It seems that in August there is a three day Alevi festival in a place called Hacibektas (August 16, 17 and 18) and Mehtap and Zehra want us to do something there as well and are willing to go there. We agreed to give news of this to our friends abroad who can’t come in June or July, but could participate in August. Furthermore, they said, supported by Huseyin, we could organize a mini tour in august, including other interesting festival places. So it was very animated.
In the meantime Altug called to see how we were. Very nice.
At 20:30 we decided to have dinner which Peter had prepared before and the conversations continued while we were eating. Mehtap proposed some ceremonies. So we moved to the salita and Zehra guided the Service and Well being with the printed book. It was a very beautiful and intimate atmosphere, very calm and smooth. At the end there was a lot of happiness, hugs of joy.
Mehtap and Zehra left at 22h and Peter and Yüksel continued with the list of libraries. The first list is ready but many are still missing. Yüksel was not satisfied with the libraries he had on his list and wanted to find better ones.
So he will put more information during the coming days and send back the file.
So, this is it for today. Tomorrow there will be the weekly meeting of experiences and we hope many friends will attend.
Un fuerte abrazo,
Yüksel, Mehtap, Zehra, Huseyin y Peter
