Hi Chris... from the other part of the world.... I could imagine this picture: your dining table, your family and Aine, saying this simple words in her unchildlishly wise tone... so nice feeling puted in the words....
I still remember her saying in may be just learned new exprassion: I MIGHT hurt you, I don't want to, but I MIGHT hurt you when I'm swinging... She is so pretty, so nice and you is so attantive father, Chris, - do you keep recording her expressions? Sometimes we do remember the frazes of my children... they could be so funny and nice with their unexpectedness and wiseness I'm so proud that the Siberian flowers on a silk still remind you about my visit... Hope it was not very hard for your family. and thank you for your nice Bowen Island... I do keep 'bells' which I heard out of your house ringing on the wind.... on my refregerator.... Happy New Year to you, to your nice family, to your nice daughter Aine, and to .... ... All OS community! Thank you for your being! Let all your dreams come true. The Space is AROUND! the whole Universe is around and we are part of it! I' m reading now Ilya Prigojin (do I spell it recongnazable?) about Order out of Chaos as I'm still thinking of the underground theories of OST... .... I got the book! sorry if it takes me too long and still bothers me. My scientific husband gives a lot of oil to this thought, he still don't believe in magic of it. So do I, I need some more to learn HOW it works. I don't know how to go over the scepticism of people when I talk about circle. and as we have so few places, where we can organize 'empty' space - is it REALLY the necessity? which I believe, but need some 'scientific' proof as I'm also a scientist.... Well, this is just some thoughts, the nest portion is discussed already: is 4 rouls the needed and the enough? and what is the real, 2,5 day of OST meeting as I never be there except OSonOS, but there were no need for any result... So I need to find MY OWN answers to all this question. May be they don't exist, may be the SPACE is the answer as Aine says... Best wishes to all of you and good luck elena marchuk novosibirsk siberia, russia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Corrigan" <cor...@interchange.ubc.ca> To: <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 2:42 PM Subject: New Year's gratitude from my daughter > Happy New Year folks. You remember Aine, my daughter. In September she > said something about feeding monsters that, along with the profound > collective forwarding power of the folks on this list, turned her into > an international celebrity ( http://www.chriscorrigan.com/aine ). Well, > she's back, with a repeat utterance of truth and clarity that shook me > to my socks. > > As we were gathering around our dining room table for the last meal of > last year, adorned as it is by a little Siberian silk painting that > Elena left there in August, we were giving thanks for all that was > important to us and that had happened in 2001. > > Aine usually primes herself for these sorts of instantaneous essays by > uttering her usual beginning: "Thank you for the love, for the trees, > for the rocks..." She uses those words to get going and fill time while > she dreams up the main event. Being a 4.5 year old jazz musician, she > needs to prime the improvisational genius with a ritual recital of the > head. > > So, after her standard vamp on the usual themes, she paused, a pregnant > opening that actually presaged what she was about to say, and said very > simply: "Thank you space, for everything." > > It was a statement that works of so many levels, that I am still reeling > from its significance. > > Anyway, I offer it to all of you in the dark northern early days of > 2002, as a kind of blessing/thank you for all that you, as a community, > continue to be. > > Chris > > -- > CHRIS CORRIGAN > Consultation - Facilitation > Open Space Technology > > http://www.chriscorrigan.com > cor...@interchange.ubc.ca > > RR 1 E-3 > 1172 Miller Road > Bowen Island, BC > Canada, V0N 1G0 > > phone (604) 947-9236 > fax (604) 947-9238 > > * > * > ========================================================== > 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...@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
