Lately I have been corresponding with Alan Rayner and his Inclusionist cohorts. I am not totally clear what they are up to, and their language is perhaps a little private. But I do think we are paddling about in the same pond. I did post a letter from ted Lumley who is part of this crew. Anyhow, Alan sent me the following poem. I quite enjoyed it, and thought you might too.
Harrison RECREATIONS OF A PLAYFUL UNIVERSE By Alan Rayner Oh, how we laugh! When Some Thing Touches Our Spirit Tickles Our Imagination Recalling Our Place In a Playful Space A common enjoyment Of a Common Enjoinment Recreations Of an Ever Present Folding Dynamic Boundaries Pivotal Places Incomplete Surfaces That make distinct But Never Discrete Unique and Special Identities Possibilities Realized That Can Never Be Bettered And can never be Severed >>From a Context Within and Beyond That Makes Us Content Belonging Together Adoring Our Differences Inseparable in Our Incompleteness Our Self-Insufficiency That Unites Us in Love A Receptive Space A No Thing Place That Keeps Us Coherent Within and Without Enveloped and Enveloping No Need For Rules No Need For Rulers With Space in Our Hearts To Include Other as Us A Diverse Assembly A Joyous Relief Reciprocating Each Other's Movements Dancing in High Spirits Oh, how we cry! When Made To Deny Our Union With Other No Mother, No Brother No Sister To Assist Our Passage Through Pain But a Father Severe A Tyrant Authority To Cut Us Off Within Fixed Boundaries In Isolation Pretending Independence Making Comparisons Striving To Remove What's Not Good Enough In Pursuit of Perfection, Control, Prediction A rationalistic Ideal A Uniform Whole A Self-Sufficiency Tolerating No Hole No Breathing Space No Place for Grace Demanding Reproduction More of the Same A Perpetual Cloning With No Room to Err No Room to Wander or Wonder A Solid Object With Space Outcast An Infinite Outsider Offering No Possibility Of Excitement or Joy A Purified Presence A Divine Right Freed From Wrong An Unreal Abstraction Motionless Emotionless Random Disunity Divine DisContent A Need For Rules A Need For Rulers No Space in Our Hearts To Include Other as Us A Monoculture A Dull, Flat Field Where Conflict Abounds So, For Heaven's Sake, Father! Take a Look at Your Wife! Isn't She Sexy? Get a Life! Be Your Self! Give Us Guidelines, By All Means But, Please Don't Hold Us Against Them Stop Repeating Yourself! Put Away Your Knife! Or, at the very least Make a Hole that Heals And Recreates - Lets Us Play! Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20845 Phone 301-365-2093 Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com <http://www.openspaceworld.com/> Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives 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: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist