Hello all. I have been on this list for a while listening to all your great self-organizing open spaced turtlevoices. I am an OS turtle wisard my self....and lately I had an extrodinary oppurtunity to watch a big giant Letherback Turtle laying it´s eggs!!!! Magic? Yes!! These creatures are just pure beaty and magic. In their slowness and trance they just do what they have to do - smooth and soft.
Under a rich star sky barefooted in the sand, at a beach in Costa Rica, with the sound of wawes of the Pacific in my ears I was sitting behind - simply reaching out and touching this giants back! Their story is increadible. Each female turtle come up to lay eggs 9 times during a periode of 2-3 months every time the moon is gone. Not 5 times, not 7 times.... It takes all in all 2 hours to move their corpses, dig the whole and laying 60-80 eggs big like tennisballs. The last 20 eggs are fake - in case of predators! They never see the baby turtles again. Knowbody really knows where they mate, they only meet while they mate and how and where the males live is still a mystery. The females might swim from Galapagos to this specific coast line - only 5 km - in the world, but where they go inbetween knowbody really knows. The babies allways come back to the same place where they were born to lay their eggs, first time at age of 15... At the end of this amazing spectacle I saw two shooting stars - at the same time....... Well do I need to say that this was like being in the middle of crazy and healing wisdom comming from beyond and going beyond....and that the universe and I went swinging.... You might all know the story "MOMO" written by the german author Michael Ende - otherwise go and read it! It´s a story about the girl Momo, her friends and the Grey Men stealing the time. One of her friends is the turtle Cassiopeia who has this great ability to know the future 30 minutes in advance..... At some point they are trying to escape the Grey Men, who runs and runs very fast to get them. But at Cassiopeias back is printet with red letters the true Turtle Power: the slower your walk the quicker you get to your point! The slower the girl and the turtle walks, the more behind the Grey Men seems.... And that is a true story... I am an Open Space host too, danish by the way - and just to let you know you will get an invitation very soon to "The Castle Borl Experience 2005"! I am a part of the hosting team this year. Filiz is right - there is some special magic there. Great day to your all Tine Huge HUGE-LØBENDE TANKE (Running Thaught) Enghavevej 9, 2.th. 1674 Copenhagen V. Denmark + 45 2859 6025 h...@loebendetanke.dk www.loebendetanke.dk (not yet in english) -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] På vegne af Harrison Owen Sendt: 16. februar 2005 23:50 Til: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Emne: Re: Management in a World of Turtles And you know what happens when people start talking about The Power of Turtles??? Very strange things! ho Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20845 Phone 301-365-2093 Open Space Training 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 -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Juan Luis Walker B. Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 3:35 PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Re: Management in a World of Turtles In short terms, I would invite him to go and speak to his boss, with the trust and courage of his awareness, and begin to talk about the power of turtles... Juan Luis * * ========================================================== 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 * * ========================================================== 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 * * ========================================================== 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
