What Happened?

[Guest guest]

Hi Everyone:

 

Thank you all for joining us at our new location. I apologize for

having been away from the club for several days -- my wife has been

away at a professional conference, my mother-in-law (our usual

childcare champion) was ill, and that left me with my hands full! So I

took a few days away from work and the Web, and enjoyed some full-time

hanging out with my kids. It was great -- a much-needed change of

pace!

 

Now, Pintu_Bh asks (as many people have been asking) what happened to

the club? Unfortunately, I cannot say for sure -- at best I could only

speculate, and that would ultimately be an exercise in futility.

Devi's club had many devotees and well-wishers, but also -- as seems

inevitable in the surprisingly political world of Clubs and

Groups -- the usual gaggle of detractors.

 

With Devi's kind grace, the current setup will probably prove more

stable in the long term. As many long-time members know, there was

strife among the founders in the Shakti club and -- as Abraham Lincoln

famously noted -- a house divided against itself cannot stand. Nora

and I worked hard to build the club into a formidable gathering of (at

its height) 575 Shaktas. And the Club was barely six months old! But

without the cooperation and assistance of all founders, the club was a

castle built on sand. And -- I promise this is my last cliched

metaphor -- we were only as strong as our weakest link.

 

But no matter. We are still here, and if Devi wishes us success, then

we shall have it -- in whatever form She chooses. Fortunately, we're

in a position to help things along. I'm grateful and relieved that we

had all of the Shakti Sadhana club material saved offline as well, so

precious little data was lost -- all Club posts, pictures and so on

are intact and will be appearing here in the group over the next few

weeks. We've also got our membership list, so inviations will issue

and then the group should start growing again.

 

In the meantime, we'll be gradually filling our new databases -- book

and music lists, etc. -- and adding Shakta links. Most importantly (in

my mind at least) we'll be embarking on an exciting task that I hope

you'll all participate in: The creation of a Shakti Sadhana FAQ! That

should force us to define basic terms, state a club mission, etc. --

and I hope you'll all participate. I'll draft the basic questions and

some suggested answers and then we can all debate what changes,

additions, subtractions and so on should take place.

 

Lots on the horizon, so let's look forward to the future rather than

cry about the past.

 

Aum Maatangyai Namahe!