A Quest for Community
Monday, October 27, 2003
Our flight to Taipai is
uneventful, interrupted only by the serving of delicious meals, the
best airline food I've ever had. We have a smooth landing, then are
asked to take all our carry-on baggage off the plane with us while they
clean and refuel the plane during our one-hour layover. I have a quick
lunch of a Won Ton type soup in the airport, and then it's back onboard
to the same seats for the next leg of our flight to Singapore. Our
group has done some seat-shuffling and I find myself sitting next to a
lady in our travel group named Jan, a former school teacher and Guide
for Barbara Marx Hubbard's online Web-based "Gateway" course. Jan turns
out to be the Mother of Teresa Collins, Marshall's Leffert's
Significant Other, and the Co-Director with Marshall of the Santa
Barbara Project, including the online Peace Room, the Gateway Course,
and the new Evolve! website. I've always considered Teresa to be a
remarkable woman, a real modern Goddess, and once asked her how in the
world she got to be so neat. She thought for a moment and then answered
with two words: "My Mom!." So here I was sitting next to her Mom, and
it didn't take long to discover how amazing Jan is.We have a great time talking during our 6-hour flight to Singapore.
