Did a workshop last Tuesday with the leaders of Het Anker, a church group in my home town Zaltbommel. It was an experimental setup trying out the idea of  ‘thinking with one’s hands’ – accessing other parts of the brain while having a group discussion about the  church community and its future.   I taught the group the  techniques of yarn making, knitting and crochet-ing, and colleague  Lenneke Licht facilitated the discussion. It was a succesful experiment, rather  – lots of energy and perseverance present. I especially liked the part where I got to crochet the Holy Spirit . The red flecks (see detail below) depict the Holy Spirit in a church that has gone from very heavvy (black and dark blue) to more enlightened (light blue to white). The red+orange+pink bit near the upper left hand corner depicts the merger with another Protestant church that is on the books –  the back side equals the process of merging with its bumpses and loose ends, the front side the much smoother situation when the merger will be completed.  I took the pieces home and merged them into a small tapestry that is to be presented to the group next Sunday.