Thursday, March 27, 2014
Dispersed Lent Journal Project 2014 at distance
One of the dispersed Lent Journals 2014 returned today. It has been travelling by post, moving around rural South Australia, among our distance students. It was a great joy to see it return, complete with post paid bag as students decided to pay themselves rather than let College pay.
The story behind the Dispersed Lent Journal Project 2014 is that we at 34 Brooklyn Park are a dispersed community – students, staff, teachers; post-graduates, under-graduates; studying for audit and for credit; face to face and distance.
At the start of Lent, four journals were released into the community – in lectures, in library, in student common room. Folk are invited to journal what Lent means to them, and pass it onto another in the community. (Full description here). We wanted a way to connect our dispersed, mobile community.
Distance students were keen to participate and here is one now returning after being posted around South Australia. Which means it is now able to be handed onto another student. Connections are being created among the dispersed, spirituality nurtured and nourished among those who gather and scatter.
I recieved it with a note from the person passing it on. She lives nearby and wants to connect. It’s great. I’m not so distance maybe after all.
Comment by Nicole Mugford — March 27, 2014 @ 10:42 pm
Now that’s a cool story Nicole. Woop woop for connections 🙂 steve
Comment by steve — March 27, 2014 @ 10:53 pm