Hello
friends,
Today was a very good day as well. At around
15:30 in the afternoon Hüseyin and Peter, went to the Center of the Federation
of Alevi associations (Alevi cultural associations) to meet with Huseyin, Zehra’s
husband, who is the director of the Federation. Zehra organized this meeting
and she also attended. We were very warmly received and immediately a very nice
lady offered us chai. For a good while we exchanged information about the life
of Alevis and Silo’s Message, reaffirming, there are many things in common,
such as tolerance, nonviolent attitude as a direction in life, etc.
At a certain point we asked Huseyin if it would
be possible to make a book presentation in the center. He explained that this
center is the central office of the federation and not a place for semas or
other kinds of meetings. But, if after reading the book, it seems good to him,
he can send a recommendation to associations which, in turn, through their
boards, can freely decide if they are interested in organizing a presentation. He
promised to give us a list of associations and their contacts. We gave him the
Book and Commentaries so that he could read them and after a little more
conversation between Hüseyin, Huseyin and Zehra we said good-bye warmly, to the
nice lady as well and Hüseyin and Peter went to the same place we had been to
the other day with Zehra, Mehtap and her friend Tayfun and had a long
conversation about interesting issues concerning us.
We went
back home at 19:00 and Hüseyin went to rest for a while because tomorrow very
early he must travel to Konya from where he will be back on the same day. At
20:00 Handan called to say she was coming and we talked until Aylin arrived at
20:30. We continued talking until Yüksel arrived at 21:30 and the four us went
on talking. It was all very lively and in a good mood. At 22:00 Handan proposed
to do ceremonies and we woke up Hüseyin so that he could also participate.
The
ceremonies went very well, Handan and Aylin guiding one ceremony each. During
the Well Being we tried to send well being to every person who is suffering
violence in Syria and between Syria and Turkey and we asked for the end of all
the war-related violence in the region. It was very intense and very beautiful
and at the end we were all very well and happy of having been together in this
wave of well being and asking.
Previously,
while we were talking in the kitchen, Handan invited us to go to her house
tomorrow at 14:00 to eat together. We also talked about possible presentations
and Yüksel and Aylin agreed that Babil cafe is a good place. Tomorrow we will
visit this place, which is in Kizilay, to make contact and feel the atmosphere.
At 22:30,
Handan and Aylin went home and that was the end of a very beautiful day.
Tomorrow we’ll
see how it goes.
A big hug to all,
Hüseyin, Handan, Aylin, Yüksel and Peter
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