Hello friends,
Today there was the weekly meeting of the Message and there were 14 Turkish friends as well as us 5. So there were 19 persons. Zehra brought her two sisters Nejla and Lala, Zeynep his friend Özgür, who worked was a clown and in the theatre, Bülent invited a new friend Baris and Borak, Ilker and Ali returned. Then there were Handan, Mehtap, Altug, Yüksel and Zerrin. Zerrin left before the meeting began because she had an appointment. She came more for the issue of the printing of the Book, but next week she wants to participate.
The first persons arrived at 17, Zehra and her sister Lale as well as Borak came earlier. We chatted in the kitchen. At 18:30 the others came a few at a time and Zerrin to talk to Eduardo about the Book's printing, translated by Altug.
Small groups of conversation were formed and everything with a good vibes, accompanied by chai and crackers.
Around 19:00 suddenly, they start preparing in the kitchen something with vegetables and cheese Zehra, Lale and Özgür, and it appears to be pide, a Turkish specialty, which had to be taken to a wood oven in order to be cooked. So we had to wait a little until they finished and Zehra brought it to the oven somewhere close to the house. In the meantime, Handan proposed we reed the book of the Message until everyone was back and ready to begin the ceremonies. And so it was, reading the first chapter which produced some comments. At 20:20 we began with the ceremonies and Zehra and Bülent guided the Service very well, with a principle to meditate upon. It is noteworthy that when the ceremonies begin everyone is quickly silent, even though a moment before there was a lot of noise and jokes and laughter here and there.
After, we continued with the Well Being and we also asked for some of our friends present who have some difficulties in their daily lives. Everything very well and intenses and heartfelt hugs among everyone in the end. Something always happens seemingly outside of the usual and infects everyone with emotions that are more inner, deeper.
Quickly our friends organize the environment, transforming it into a dining room with our two tables and chairs and brought the pide. We ate in the very beautiful and softly happy atmosphere, talking, smokers going to the kitchen once in a while and talking there as well.
At a certain point, we explained how we finance our things and also about the printing and distributing of the Book so that no doubts remained about who finances and that everything is voluntary and that everyone contributes according to his wishes and his capacity. This was very interesting because already they were asking how would it be for Ankara and who collects and to whom they should give what is collected. So we explained that they organize among themselves, who knows, maybe with a box to put their contributions and during each weekly meeting people can put there what they want or can. Very easy and we'll see how it goes.
After this brief explanation Özgür prepares a surpires producing small animals, flowers and crowns with balloons, lots of fun, a real artist and very funny and Zehra's actress sister, Nejla, gives us a small performance, lots of fun and enchanting. In the meantime, Tamas was making pancakes in the kitchen which arrived on plates to the table and everyone very happy with this new surprise. So we were happily there until 22:30 more or less, when the majority of the friends went home. Only Borak stayed a while longer until after 23, talking to Juli and Tamas.
Again, many intangible things happened which, we believe are molding relationships among everyone and strenghtening ties. Something happens, difficult to explain, but this produces some sort of thankfulness in everyone.
Maybe the pictures captured some of this.
Un muy fuerte abrazo desde Ankara,
Juli, Tamas, Judit, Eduardo y Peter
