E ku dee de iwoyi
o! meaning, good day!
Wow it`s December!
It’s just like yesterday when we all said Happy New year, wasn`t it? We go
through series of holidays or celebrations from Ileya (Eid al-Adha) Halloween, Thanksgiving
and Christmas to close the year.
It has been a
wonderful year and I`m sure we all have something to thank God for this year.
We want to thank you all for attending our last meeting. We also thank you all
for your contribution especially Mr. Gabriel for sharing his experience on how
to successfully raise children in Japan despite a very short notice. Even
though there was no much questions for that Q & A slot we created which was
a forum to air our opinions, ideas, complaints, concerns etc. We do not want to
assume that everything is fine. We always want us to, like someone put it,” dare
to ask” and “let`s agree to disagree” to give room for creativity in solving
problems in our community. The fact is that most of the biggest catastrophes that
we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes
from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are
willfully blind to, because we can't handle, don't want to handle, the conflict
that it provokes. But when we dare to break that silence, or when we dare to
see or ask, and we create conflict, we enable ourselves and the people around us
to do our very best thinking. It was an example of what we experienced at the last meeting and it is a healthy way of helping the association to grow starting
from each one of us developing habit of being patient, listening more, understanding one another more and to love one another more.
Open information
is fantastic, open networks are essential. But the truth won't set us free
until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage
to use it. Openness isn't the end. It's the beginning to taking our association
to a higher level.
Thank you everyone
once again, wishing you a happy and healthy month as we round up the year
especially if you were born in December.
Segun.
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