Hi everyone,About two years ago the author of the newsletter we subscribed to: Move to Ireland.com, wrote a long piece on always remaining the outsider in Irish life - and one of the things he said was that you could join groups but never plan on leading them. While I think he is right, and equally while I would never want to lead a group here in Kinsale as long as my life equally exists all over the world, last night the Tidy Town group came close to being an exception.
Our group is well run by the Chairman - a man on the council whom Margie and I have come to greatly respect. Charles will be out closing roads and putting up "flooded" signs in the middle of the night rather than inconvenience someone who runs into a bad road. Likewise we see him at every town event and it is ability to be so involved that helps our little committee do as well as we do.
Never the less they honored me last night by voting me in as Vice chair. All I could think about as one of the women who is heartfelt and outspoken called my name was, "but they said this could never happen!" While a figurehead position it honors that I follow through on what I say I will do. It also allows me to feel empowered to do a bit of extra work, with the help of one of our neighbors on the issue of sustainable resources and recycling.
All in all a great night,
Sending love,
Alana
