I became the unofficial achiver of the TOLLS community in Adelaide a while back when I set up our second website… The first website didn’t really change too often and I thought that we could put up something that would change regularly and include some of our thoughts, dreams and liturgies. The website went through a number of changes over time and, up until this year was hosted at tollsonline.org.
The reality is that while we still exist online, and in spirit the community doesn’t meet in person anymore and when it came to renewing the domain name I decided to just let it go. Amusingly enough, the week that the domain died was the week that I started receiving requests for liturgies and images and pieces that we’d earlier written for the community over the last few years.
I have also had requests from other members of the community to archive the stuff “properly” ok, well, a couple of people have suggested that we write books. The truth be told we’ve tried writing books before and it never really worked, we’d write a chapter, open it up for discussion and let it fester for a while until someday a new chapter would be released… kind of like what blogs do. Another thing that was fairly consistant with the TOLLS community was the feeling that we didn’t want our worship to become commercial property, everything was put together in an open sourced commnunity, so it should be shared as such.
We just wanted to share the love.
So, this is what I’m going to do.
Over the next couple of months I’ll go through the TOLLS stuff I have on my computer and gradually clean it up, place it on the blog and open it up to the public again. I’ll be posting poetry, prose, articles, book chapters, liturgies, email conversations, quotes, images and prayers of the TOLLS community from day dot until today. At the moment I’m waiting to receive the go ahead to release one of the cds that our crew made in our studio in 2001 as a series of podcasts for those who like their music.
Consider this my way of sharing our love…
And my way of respecting the past.