At 10:09 PM +0200 4/5/01, Florian Fischer wrote: >when the contest is done, i would like to know, >what was your idea about the beginning with a and the volume of 21 words ??
Florian, I hope it is OK to answer your question now. I am standing on the shoulders of the friends who created our previous celebrations/contests. I loved how Ralph invited us into the fun and mystery of using all 26 letters of this alphabet in order. We embark on a creative journey that carries us along like a rushing stream where we find hidden dangers and delights. I hope the letter A invites us to write a few words, which then open up into a few more, and soon a whole experience or insight has come out. But the limit of 21 makes us edit and use different words to shape that raw burst of language. This to me is one of the great joys of writing a poem. I guess my idea is to extend an invitation to try it & share them with each other. Jeff - Jeff Aitken Inverness Ridge, CA USA 415.669.1924 j...@svn.net Trainings in open space process: http://www.openspaceworld.org/wwbb/Forum1/HTML/000022.html * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html =========================================================== osl...@egroups.com To subscribe, 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign up -- provide an email address, and choose a login ID and password 3. Click on "Subscribe" and follow the instructions To unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@egroups.com: 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign in and Proceed
