If you don't invite him how will the attendees get to discuss all the possibilities?
Also since Brian is in Broome (sunning himself on Australia's far north-west coast) and taking on the enormous task of presuming to speak for him: Trust in the spirit of the people, and Be prepared to be surprised (ie do not have your own pre-determined outcomes) are essential pre-requisites which is no doubt why Ralph also says invite him. On a personal level, if we are to believe in the Spirit, then we MUST allow it to work. For mine Space Invaders are furphies (oz for distracting rumour/myth) Congratulations on the initiative Peace >Hi-- > >How would you handle this? > >I have hand delivered the invitation below to many people in our community. >In a nutshell, this is an OST for folks who want to use 9-11 as an impetus >to create projects in our community to make this a better place, to give us >a better future. The theme is "What Good Can We Make of 9-11?" > >The invitation and the newspaper article both made it clear that the last >thing I want to come out of the meeting is a statue for people to visit: I >want to promote a living memorial, project to involve people. > >This evening we had our first Inviters Meeting. This was a meeting of >people who are going to invite other people to the OST on 2002/09/11. It >was announced by way of a news release published in our local paper, and >personal invitations. > >There were 5 people, plus me. The only one to come solely as a result of >the newspaper article was a person known as influential in our community. > >After I announced the theme of the OST and described a little about the >process of the meeting, he jumped in. > >"Well, I don't want to stop your project, but we have a project to which >many hours and many Dollars have been committed already, and we should not >scatter our resources, but rather concentrate them behind this sculpture of >the Twin Towers we want to erect at one of our park entrances," he said, >proceeding to tell us about all the money raised and efforts in that regard >and the need for memorials so people will remember, etc. > >I thought, "Here is a pure Space Invader." I worried about intervening, so >resolved to keep my mouth shut and see what happened. > >When he started into the details of the kind of steel to be used in the >construction, I said something to the effect that of course we need >memorials and it is a fine project, but people have many different >interests, and those who want memorials can come to your group at the >meeting. > >He said something to the effect that "You can't do any project without >money, so it's fruitless to try," and similar things. > >Needless to say, he brought the energy in the room way down to start. > >Finally, someone else asked a question and started to turn the conversation >back to where we needed to be. It was a fruitful meeting, but I sure am >tempted not to invite him to the next Inviters Meeting! > >How would you handle this sort of invasion, seeing that there was no other >meeting going on to which we could all use the law of two feet? > > :-Doug. Germann > >* >* >========================================================== >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