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 ===Meditating===
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 At our very first Transiency meeting, I was talking with Maja, Rasa & Nik about my issues of body-mind connection, and my focusing issues I was experiencing since the middle of my studies. At that time, Maja had advised me to go through the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness-based_stress_reduction|Mindfulness 8-weeks course (MBSR)]], she thought it would help me with this. Her Dutch-speaking mindfulness teacher advised me a French-speaking one, and because of affluence & scheduling issues, I could only start with the cycle in May.
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 ===Getting Inspired===
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-In May, I was invited by Eva Bakselett to teach in a workshop at Schumacher College, a mythical teaching place devoted to ecology I had heard of numerous times. It was a wonderful experience, mainly because of the incredible people I have met there.
+In May, I was invited by [[http://www.evabakkelsett.com/|Eva Bakselett]] to teach in a workshop at [[http://schumachercollege.org.uk/|Schumacher College]], a mythical teaching place devoted to ecology I had heard of numerous times. It was a wonderful experience, mainly because of the incredible people I have met there.
 On the picture on top of this section, you can see two people. The guy is a former graphic designer. After three months of work, he found out that working behind a screen was not his way. So he knocked at the nieghboring baker's door and asked for an apprenticeship. He got accepted, and is now a (talented) baker for several years. On the picture, we can see him teaching how to make bread from a grain polyculture flour to a Horticulture apprentice from the College.
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 ====Summer - Experimenting====
+===Researching===
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+In June, my friend [[http://zprod.org/|Paul Granjon]] came over for one week. Paul is an artist who works on co-evolution of humans and machines. Lately, he is has been dealing with e-waste a lot.
+We had a one-week long research workshop, during which we tried to build supercapacitors out of dead PC batteries.
+It was my first "technical" research experiment in a few months. Without having stated it very clearly, I think that I was in the process of escaping "technical" research, for several reasons. Mostly, I found research very frustrating. Trying to make something work for weeks, mostly failing, and having once in a while a bleak enlightment when something worked was not for me.
+However, reasearching with Paul was completely different. We had a very nice week, I learned tons of stuff, and even though we did not manage to have anything working as well as we wish it would, I felt it was very pleasant.
+I think that the combination of five weeks of mindfulness training helped me deal with the frustration inherent to research. But, also, having someone like Paul as a teammate for this project changed everything. We had very nice discussions, for instance on the wider context of the research we were performing.
+After this week, I was no longer sure I wanted to give up on "technical" research.
+===Connecting===
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+Strengthened by the experience with Paul, I headed towards Nantes, and the [[http://summerlabnantes.net/|Summerlab]] organized by [[http://www.pingbase.net/|Ping]].
+This event aims at offering a temporary experimental space to researchers of all kinds, from writers to tailors, including programmers, furniture designers, or musicians.
+During one week, we would meet every morning to discuss what were the ongoing projects, and then we would spend the day working on them. Every night there was a party. Wonderful week.
+I met tons of people from diverse communities, and got people excited on the two projects I proposed: building a dynamo from a printer DC motor, and experimenting with microbial fuel cells.
+This event confirmed that the essence of what I want in this period of my life is: traveling, meeting people with diverse backgrounds & ideas, and doing stuff with them.
+===Wandering===
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+I also spent some holidays with Amélie, and later in the summer with my family. During this period, I just spent time with people I like, contemplated many diverse and beautiful landscapes, walked, played games, and read a few serious books.
+During this period, I could feel the experiments and works of the past few months sediment deep inside, fermenting a little bit maybe, and starting to produce new flavors in my present and potential future life.
+Wandering is also very important. Spending some time far away from the daily routine, loosing some time in between, is vital. It seems that the new stuff I seeded earlier needed this stage for a healthy development.
+====Autumn - Preparing====
+After seeding, letting things develop, experimenting, and getting a few answers, most of the time of the Transiency had flown away. Now has come the time to prepare for the future life, post-Transiency.
+===Replicating===
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+When an experiment is performed once, it brings a few insights. But to confirm these insights, replication is needed.