Dear Julie.
When I read your mail I felt touched and have the need to share my caring for you and the other great people you talk about. I know all too well my self, the very feelings you have experienced. I know ,how people who work like all of you get undernutured. ( if thats an english word ) Here is how I get into it.
I get hold of friends, colleges who can support me in changing these feelings. Once I have changed those feelings, once I am nutured myself, can go back to the other perople and hear their needs to being appriciated. From your words, I sense, that most of the people there need to hear appriciation from each other. I am sure you know ways of organazing that. I do hope that these words give you inspiration to go about it in you own way.
Love Inge from Denmark
>From: Julie Smith <jsm...@mosquitonet.com>
>Reply-To: OSLIST <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu>
>To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
>Subject: Re: Opening Space for a Closing World
>Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 00:13:35 -0800
>
>Okay, Harrison. I'll take you up on this one. You said:
>
>"So I thought to myself, thought I, how to open some more space -
>anywhere,
>anyhow, with anyone???? Doing an OS is cool, but surely that represents
>but
>a tiny fraction of the opportunities available. So come on Folks
>(Lurkers
>included) how do we open up some more space? And how are we doing right
>now.
>Perhaps if we shared we cold give each other some really good ideas."
>
>I could use some good ideas about now.
>
>I reported some time ago that I'm now the "executive director" (please,
>anyone, give me a better word to describe what I do!) of our local
>Montessori preschool. I love the Montessori philosophy, and the
>children are blossoming in beautiful, amazing ways. Goodness abounds.
>Trouble is, in spite of many, many wonderful staff and parents, we
>suffer from a lack of cohesion and community between staff, between
>parents, and between staff and parents. Truth is, I often come home
>feeling frayed, frustrated, misunderstood and unappreciated. (Good
>grief! Is that me talking? How did I get here????)
>
>There you have it. I could tell you a longer version, but I doubt the
>telling would add anything significant (and it might resemble whining).
>
>
>And here is my question (remembering now from a brief encounter with the
>I Ching that the framing of the question is as revealing as the
>receiving of the answer)(now feeling even greater pressure to get it
>right): How do I help this community I love make the journey from where
>we are now to a place of mutual understanding, regard, and purpose? How
>do we tap our enormous reservoir of intelligence, love, and intention
>for the greater good of us all? How do we, as a community, engage in
>that energizing, invigorating, inspiring dance on the spiral of
>expanding consciousness?
>
>I release my questions to you, the universe. I look forward with great
>anticipation to all that comes back to me.
>
>(And now I laugh, remembering another time I forgot the answers I
>already knew, and Chris C. sharing a poem that told that old story most
>beautifully. Sometimes I wonder whether we forget not only for
>ourselves, but perhaps for others as well. And so I am willing to reveal
>my forgetting again.)
>
>(And I heard Harrison's question in my soul, asking me to answer. So at
>the same time that I ask the universe for answers, I am the universe
>answering.)
>
>(It's great to be writing here again. Nothing like it, anywhere, for
>me.)
>
>Much love ~~~
>
>Julie
>
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