Dear Saratoga,

I just wanted to drop you a quick email to let you know that today is my last day at Arup and Arup Associates. It’s been a fantastic four years and I’ve really enjoyed the chance we had to work together here.

From January I’ll be working freelance and focussing on workshops and training, project integration and retrofit &behaviour change.

My new contact details are:

Email: me@saraturnbull.com
Phone: +447972103996
Website: www.saraturnbull.com

I wish you a very happy holiday and look forward to working again with you in the new year.

Best wishes,

Sara

- making fire
- warm when it’s cold / dry when it’s wet
- getting wet when you can get dry / cold when youncan get warm etc
- preparing / sharing flavoursome food
- feasts / festivities (not necessarily as host)
- sharing your mind
- companionship
- being still ( need to learn this ) - better on the ought to be list
- movement and music and song and rythmn
- knowing and using and being at peace with your body
- (leisure)
- cozzziness
- sex (that people want)
- (children)
- animals / plants
- getting sweaty and dirty and getting clean
- being in a team
- challenging yourself
- long views
- working with the natural world / recognizing you are part of the natural world / acting your part on the world
- moving light
- changing of time and season
- potential for random meetings with new people / old people
- making things
- using hand crafted goods that have been made by people not mass produced
- bodies of water
- feeling a part of something / feeling against something (common purpose)
- sun, stars and moon
- tools
- having one or more senses stimulated in a surprising manner

We should also create buildings which create a move to values that allow
- time
- equality ( for everyone’s sake )

under-where:

• Food
• Health
• Family
• Friends
• No drama
• No boredom
• No judgement

Agree in part. Though I’d remove ‘no drama’ and replace with adventure…

Actually, hell, I’ll just post my ‘good stuff’ list as a comparison.

On a first great western train. They’ve added pay per view tv into all the seats. Turned mine off three times to save energy and they keep flicking it back on to advertise things at me.

Waste
Of
Energy

Can’t see anyone watching it, bit yet no one has switched off.

Though guy next to me just did … Yes to him

These people are seriously on the side of good

No probs

Very happy to be your 60th follower!

In the last month things moved from living carefully and frugally and joyfully to just plain simple having no money.

It’s just a pinch point between having no tenants and having not sold the house. In this situation several things helped:
- following advice of a great friend to stick the room on spareroom - have a viewing tomorrow so fingers crossed. Have gone for a rock bottom price for a short term let. Was probably just being greedy before
- following my gut instinct to accept the highest offer on the house. Yes it’s not as high as some of the figures dreamed up, but it’s what someone is willing to pay and its more than we paid. Selling means I have freedom not to be ‘we’ anymore and also to takes steps into freelancing
- the co-op bank being lovely
- bins being full of free food
- work having lots of free food at training sessions
- giving myself a break from saving
- working in a company where I get a (small) share of the profit

But what I’ve realised is that when you’ve already cut back and you already live simply and you’ve already slashed your budget… There just comes a point where you’re actually just hungry and that’s an absurd place to be.

listbutnotleast:

I’ve experienced this too many times

I can hear the birds busting to get going. Have a lovely day ahead so I’m busting to get going too.

Hello there, I just wanted to let you know that I am leading a team of four runners in the Great Gorilla race in September. There will be 1000 people in the race and we will all be dressed as gorillas. Thats more gorillas in London for the day than there are mountain gorillas left in the wild! With the money raised by the sponsored run it will be possible to secure more habitat and more training which will help to protect the mountain gorilla. If you are able to support our team, please do as all the proceeds go to the gorillas. Also, if we can raise £1,000 Arup - will also donate £1,000 and the government will donate £250 from my tax for me… so the gorillas will be rolling in it!! Please help if you can, and let other know about the race through facebook, twitter, linked-in and your blog etc…. Thanks so much and look forward to hearing from you. Sara I’m participating in The Great Gorilla Run 2011. You can help support me and the gorillas by making a secure online donation using your credit or debit card. Click on the link below: http://events.gorillas.org/jollyjunglepirates?SID=333174&Lang=en-CA Why the gorillas need your help For more information on how YOU can participate in The Great Gorilla Run 2011, please visit us at www.greatgorillas.org/ Thanks for your support!