ralph, i red it as if being together with you. gave me a good feeling, good vibration. its only certainty, which makes real things happen, isnĀ“t it. love florian
Ralph Copleman schrieb: > Hi, > > Funny things happen on the road to certainty. > > Over this past weekend, I was in some open space. I've been opening the > damn stuff a lot lately, but being IN it, now that's a rarer treat for me. > It was a one-and-a-half day gig, and the facilitator, to my great delight, > was Birgitt Williams. And the brief tale I want to tell goes like this... > > Birgitt was doing her thing at the start, opening the space, and she came to > the part about the Law of ? what? I expected her to say "Law of Mobility", > but she said "Law of Two Feet", turning as she said it, to give me this big, > semi-conspiratorial smile. I winked back in acknowledgement. There was no > one in the room of about 80 or so who was using a wheelchair, no one to be > offended by the absence of reference to the "otherwise abled" etc.. Birgitt > went on to explain how the Law works, etc. and as she then turned her > attention to the next aspect of things, the woman next to me, a stranger, > whispered to me, "I guess it's too bad for amputees." She was making a tiny > joke at the expense of open space, no harm done. But I was surprised that > someone had chosen to comment on the issue. > > I guess people notice what you say. > > Best bit in the opening was Birgitt's explanation of the obverse side of > "When it's over, it's over." She said that if your formal time period is > coming to an end, and you find you're only about five minutes away from > producing world peace, please DON'T STOP. > > (I suppose we all handle these opening chores a little differently, and I > find lately I digress from my "script" more and more and treat the time as a > bit of open-space-within-structure. I say different things; I move > differently... I have this notion that the whole opening can be done solely > and completely with gestures. Thought I might try that sometime, although I > don't know why. Sure would be a switch for a guy who loves the sound of his > own voice.) > > Birgitt was absolutely on top of her game, of course. She can open space > around me any time, any where she wants. > > -- > Ralph Copleman > http://www.earthdreams.net > 609-895-1629