Chris --thank you for the generous gift of those stories. Thomas King is a favorite of mine as well.
Chris wrote: We can choose in those situations > to look for the answer from above, from some omnipotent deity that will > set things right again, or we can accept the invitation of the animals: > we don't have much, but we have a solid foundation, and with a little > help from everyone, we can create a safe place to live. I offer that perhaps we can do both.... seeing that deity in ourselves, in those in our organizations, and in the animals... asking ourselves throughout the day if we are connected. Chris also wrote > I think we are in a time when our stories about who we are and where we > have come from are changing and paradigms are coming to rub against each > other in deep ways. OST is a process predicated on the fact that all of > us can have a hand in creating the new world. I am seeing stories being dropped and others embraced. Some of the stories we spin that keep us disconnected stand in our face. One of the most generous moments I participated in was year ago July with a group of Elders -- Mayan from El Salvador, Guatelama and Mexico, Hopi, Navajo, Mi'kmaq, Cherokee all sharing their stories of creation and prophecies and raw bravery in embracing collective thought. What you are saying mades great sense. Should I experience dissonance or contrast at "results" people -- it is a gift reflecting back to me. I love the difference or contrast. My purpose here is to evolve -- and contrast or difference is what evolves mankind. If I experience sameness -- where is the desire or discernment? In Toronto last weekend a few of us played with what invitation people answer to unleash "original voice"! The desire to go deeper in an organization, for me, is a maturing. I love the event based OST's and letting go to trust the group will proceed for its higher good. I also love when the group asks me to assist in some way with sustaining meaningful change. It is something that is needed -- deeper conversations with each other, staying even and especially when the dissonance surfaces -- building something greater than ourselves. I find at different times in my life I have had the feeling of something more meaningful emerging - a call to adventure if you will. It is often the joy I experience on this List. Thanks for sparking that thought. I took your stories with me in the woods -- sitting with the chickadees feeding out of my hand. Sitting in a favorite part of the woods -- in the broken trees from hurricane Juan -- in the essence of those trees that passed -- in the emerging energy of the rejuvenating woods, smaller trees now absorbing sun that had been blocked. To the crows sitting in the trees around me. You know which story I prefer as well <grin> with love, J * * ========================================================== 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
