tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256050.post111771354743449230..comments2023-09-23T07:46:55.137-04:00Comments on the ashram: the community, the novitiate, and leadershipgeoff and sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02055588922702826766noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256050.post-1117753281160974052005-06-02T19:01:00.000-04:002005-06-02T19:01:00.000-04:00we really need this, ryan. our shrugging might be ...we really need this, ryan. our shrugging might be a nice way of acknowledging a way of community that is 'soft at the edges' (think bonded set/centered set), but we certainly need to valorize belonging and creat ways of marking, as you say, beginnings and endings.<BR/>thanks for adding the question.geoff and sherryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02055588922702826766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256050.post-1117741981981378222005-06-02T15:53:00.000-04:002005-06-02T15:53:00.000-04:00I am also wondering about how to celebrate and mem...I am also wondering about how to celebrate and memorialize beginnings and endings and transitions. There is a sense in which we tend to shrug when asked, "Who belongs here?"ryan khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14476119055849470789noreply@blogger.com