Hello friends,
Yesterday, Sunday, was a day for rest and Peter stayed at
home reading and studying materials and other things.
Today, October 15th, Aylin came
to pick up Peter at 14:30 so they could go together to Yüksel’s office. Reyhan,
who also works with Yüksel, was there as well. Reyhan was very happy to see us
and we had chai and sweets and talked for 3 hours in a very relaxed and
beautiful atmosphere. It was pratically a learning exchange of Turkish (Peter)
and English (Aylin and Reyhan). A very dynamic exchange where we understood
each other better and better, sometimes helped by the dictionary.
Reyhan is a very nice person and
is an academic ceramics artist. We also talked about that and the big problems
artists of this world have in Turkey, where politicians aren’t very interested
in supporting artists.
At 16:45, Aylin had to go give
another photography class to 20 students and we agreed to see each other later
in Kizilay. We continued talking Reyhan and Peter until 18:00. There were
wonderful books of ancient art of different times and archaelogical objects in Yüksel’s
office. So we looked at some of them and Reyhan explained what they were about.
We left at 18:00 and walked part
of the way together until we reached the big Mosque where Peter headed towards
home.
In the meantime Handan called,
also to meet at Kizilay. So we met at 19:30 in front of the IMGE bookstore.
Handan’s friend, Ayhan, the scientist also came. We went to eat together in a
lovely place further down. Aylian and Ayhan who hadn’t went talked about the
importance of positive thinking because it always leads to good things, whereas
the opposite happens with negative thinking. We also talked about the
importance of an inner change because if not everyone will continue creating
problems for themselves and other, producing suffering and violence. Handan and
Aylin expressed they wanted to change and recognized the importance of growing
in a coherent and unifying direction. We also talked about the presentation of
the Book scheduled for November 3 at the Babil cafe and about the testimonies
we could have.
It was all very beautiful. Again
Ayhan invited us to his home one of these days. We’ll see when it will happen.
At 21:30 we headed towards Kizilay,
Ayhan and Aylin, to take a bus to go home and Handan and Peter continued
towards Kolej. There was lots of joy all the time and a good sense of humor and
lots of laughter. Handan told Peter about a place in Ankara, after a mountain
where there is a lake. We will go there next Sunday.
Talking all the while, Handan
told a very funny story and we all laughed a lot, we arrived to the Kolej metro
and we said our good-byes until tomorrow afternoon.
It was a very happy day and rich
in relationships which are more and more relaxed and at the same time close, we
feel each other reciprocally. Trust grows and opens doors. This makes everyone
happy and everyone feels energized.
Tomorrow we will visit Mehtap’s
office once again and we’ll see how the day goes on filling itself.
A big hug to everyone,
Aylin, Handan and Peter
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