How do you know that you are in Community? By experiencing connection and feeling a sense of belonging, by knowing those around you, finding ways to interact, to contribute and to find your place.

For this Equinox 2022 Newsletter we welcome our first guest editor, Marilyn Hamilton. She has recently written articles in the Rainbow Bridge celebrating two heroes who are generating powerful Community Connections: David Robinson and Laura Pasetti. As this Newsletter celebrates the going live of the Community Connections section of our website, we celebrate the synchronicities of this co-creation.

At the beginning of the COVID lockdown in 2020 David Robinson followed his passion for Taize singing and started offering it on Zoom. This made it accessible to many people from all over the world. This article tells us all about it. At the bottom of the article you find a link to a wonderful interview Marilyn did with David, and you get to know a bit more about this remarkable man and his journey from Yorkshire, to South Africa to the Orkneys and eventually to Forres to live in the Findhorn Foundation Community.

David’s wonderful service offering Online Taize singing continues and is listed in our Join In Community Activities.

In 3 articles Marilyn presents Laura Pasetti who created ‘infectious’ community connections during the times of lockdown as founding member of the Volunteers Action Group (VAG). She started the Town Criers, and evolved the Artists Hunt as part of that involvement. Her passion for eco-theatre led to the Red Ball play which opened the Year of Celebrations to honour the Community’s 60th Birthday on 11th March 2022. More information about Marilyn’s interview with Laura is listed at the end of the latter article. It gives a wonderful insight into this creative and thought provoking eco-animateur.

Laura is focalising the events coordination for the 60th Birthday Celebrations in November. She and her team will continue to add information to that section of the website. 

It is people like David, Laura and indeed Marilyn, who weave the connections that make community. Thank you to the three of you, and the many other Community Connection heroes and heroines we have in our One Incredible Family.