In my previous email I described a session with youth and adults where the question was "How do we increase and strengthen youth/adult collaboration to improve our community?" One session posted by the 85 or so year old man was "beekeeping". Since his retirement 25 years previously he had been keeping bees and that was what he wanted to talk about. I wanted to ask him how that related to our theme and whether he really thought it was appropriate for our session, but I managed to control myself, as well as control the sponsor who was having similar concerns. I have to admit that I was somewhat worried that no one would go to this session and the elderly gentleman would be embarrassed. Much to my surprise, the session was very well attended with about 15 to 20 participants, and went so far into the time for the next session that a convener actually changed his own session to a later time so he could stay to listen to more about beekeeping. On the comments sign posted it was suggested that the next open space be totally on beekeeping. I know it was the highlight of the day for many of the youths and was a real, living example of the mentoring that the O/S was trying to encourage. I'm sure (hope) that as a result of that session, he and other seniors will be invited into the school system to share their stories and wisdom. And to think I might have kept that from happening! Trust the process!
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