I have been thinking in the past few days - how do I get across to others on this journey with me how it feels - the WOW factor I have each day while on - this simple but amazing journey which started with a promise of a better world for a little girl in the year 2000.
A little girl who the other day told her great grandmother - no not me - I'm just a great Granma!!! :-) - No my mum Joey, Caitlin's Great Grandmother who is 83.
"I'm Caitlin Jean Bowden -turning three!!"
Joey had asked her if she was the name printed on her little shirt, I can't remember what it was some logo or design.
I will always remember Caitlin's voice as she corrected her. "I'm Caitlin Jean Bowden - turning three"
Come the 30th of November this little girl will be three - what she already knows amazes me. She is a Global Child, already aware of the internet and other places outside her own little home.
She interacts with far more people, as she is looked after in a week by her dad one day, myself one day, her other Nan and Pop (a step pop at that) one or two days depending on if she is going to play group or not, a day care worker on Fridays and weekends early mornings and late at night belong to her hard working mum.
No matter how many people come in and out of her week - it is still her Mum she clings to.
Each of these people are sharing a different world with her and she loves it all.
Why because she know in each of them she is still loved. So she is thriving.
As her birthday approaches it is time for me to decide on a gift. Lucky for me I have this promise as the dollars are very short that spending money on gifts is very limited.
I have decided to take her on her first train ride, we will catch the train take a picnic lunch and go to a park with swings ( her favourite park equipment as she says
"I can swing up to the sky"
- Caitlin Jean Bowden -turning three
“Science and art share a common mandate—to find surprise in the ordinary by seeing it from an unexpected point of view.” Howard Bloom
My gift to her this year will be helping her see the surprise in the ordinary and sharing her view.
As for Global Children's Alliance, it is coming together so very nicely, I started with an idea, something very ordinary and now am seeing it from many different unexpected views.
It is growing in all directions and I use my intuition to guide me in the right direction.
I now have a working group, and the keys to the Scout's Hall that we will hopefully share with the Loins Club.
I learnt a great lesson when looking at this run down white ant eaten old building. I am sure if I wanted to I could get the building exclusively for our own use. But why would I want to, when others just as important could also use this space.
Sharing will be a win- win situation.
The small hard working local Lion's Club were looking at it, to hold a meeting once a month, a dinner once a month and to store some equipment. They were concerned that they should not be spending their money on doing up something for themselves - as they are a community group. By sharing they can let us have the site - together we can encourage the Noosa community to help us fix it up and they will have somewhere to call HOME.
The meeting with the President (a women) couldn't have been better - turns out she used to be high up in Corrective Service before retiring to Pomona. It also turns out she was thinking she would have to find some work to keep her brain working - then we meet!!
Who needs work when you can have fun!! It also turns out she knows just about every indigenous person I know - who wouldn't through corrective service!! She even knows Bondy, my Soul Mate veryyyyyyyyyyyy well.
We had to stop talking about Cherbourg and indigenous issues long enough to work out how we can work together on the Scout Hall project.
If I could pick a quote which best fits where I am at and how I am feeling it would have to be this one.
"There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come."
- Victor Hugo
Do you know it is now less then a month before I head off to Puerto Rico for the launch of the Alliance for the New Humanity - I think they will like my next idea.
have a nice day - I will as I know the time has come for a Peace Embassy in Pomona, where adults can come to leave their handprints and pledge to work to make it a better world for Caitlin and all children by the year 2015.
Kerry Anne Bowden - turning 58 - but still swinging up to the sky!!
Kerry Bowden
Global Children's Alliance One Mind One Voice.
A Famility of Humanity
PS: Caitlin say
"Send someone you know my
Huggy hug, beats sending a bomb any day."
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