ABSTRACT
It has been difficult to write about the experiences of groups in general without appearing to deny the uniqueness and richness of each particular group I was associated with in this work. When we come to the theme of endings the difficulty is increased, because every ending contained in itself a particular group’s early history and development and therefore had its own particular pattern and atmosphere —its own special music, one might say. All the final meetings, I think, contained some sadness, though in some the sadness was discordant and jangling, while in others it was a controlled and positive kind of mourning. All, too, contained some anger or disappointment over lost opportunities. Certainly I could never predict what course the last meeting would follow. Yet there were recurrent themes and images, suggesting a certain universality that, for me, bound the separate experiences together without destroying the uniqueness of any one of them.
