A New Beginning

I will not always blog everyday. It has not caused my readership to increase enough to be worth the effort I put into it. 

I have realised my passion to stop a particular development in my local shopping centre is not a distraction from my mission to prevent dangerous Climate Change, but a necessary local manifestation of it. 

It will reduce the use of motor vehicles, if we make our local centre a real hub for satisfying local needs, and, if we keep out developments that serve the city as a whole, we  reduce the number of vehicles driven in from a distance. 

I am part way through a personal growth course run by the Landmark corporation. I found the first day very hard. I could hardly stop myself from falling asleep in my chair. The second day was easier as the day went on. 

Now, at the beginning of the third day I feel full of energy. I woke up after three hours sleep at 3:00 am, and lay in bed for an hour having bold new ideas about what our opposition to the night club could grow into. 

At 4:00 am, after the news, a radio program began, a repeat of the 2005 "Classic Late Night Live", which reports on some talks from the Adelaide Festival of Ideas. It began with a young woman talking about how fear holds us back. She quoted from Winston Churchill "Without courage all other virtues are meaningless". After she spoke a man spoke on the need for 'quiet time'. That's exactly what underlies my personal objection to a nightclub. I cannot even enjoy a noise free ('music' free) cup of coffee in most of this city. 

A major theme of the Landmark course is that we hold ourselves back from a lack of courage.

5:00 am - the program just ended. 

Our forming residents asociation is already looking towards having more community input into the planning process.