The correct address for the notes is http://openspaceworld.net peace, ted
On 11/15/05, 76066....@compuserve.com <76066....@compuserve.com> wrote: > > Joelle and Tree and Koos and Lisa and Zelle and all-- > > Hopefully this will go to the list. Got a lot of good suggestions from you > all and I thank each one of you and all y'all (as I've learned to say here > in San Antonio (and to never say San Antone to someone from San > Antonio!)). > Apparently some of my responses yesterday went just to the people who sent > their ideas to the list rather than to the list as I had intended. I just > do not understand the foreign systems I am having to use while away from > my > computer! So I hope you will forgive me for mis-sent messages! And > espcecially I hope you will know how I thank each one of you for your > contributions. > > So here is what we did (and you will see your influence in the whole): > > Susan Hughes helped me go over to the Alamo and walk around the grounds > and > find an appropriate plant. It was a hummingbird bush (Susan can tell us > the > scientific name and correct what I say here--Susan?). It is indigenous to > Texas and grows wild all around. It attracts butterflies (we saw a few > wonderful swallowtails) and bumblebees. It's seed pod, when ripe, bursts > open and scatters seed on the wind. This sprig we used for our listening > stick. > > We started with a few moments for people to review their notes (reports > are > all on line at http://www.openspaceworld.org ) or to just enjoy the > silence. A few people busily wrote notes, some closed their eyes. > > Then we brought out the listening sprig, Susan explained it, and we placed > it in the center. It never made it back to the center but once or twice, > flitting to and fro like a butterfly, landing in each person's lap by the > time we were done. I had invited singing and one person sang and invited > others to sing with her. > > Earlier in the day I had asked if anyone was good with scissors. Lucy > volunteered and cut out footprints from half sheets of paper. She even > drew > in toes and put polish on the nails! > > So after the listening sprig made it back to the center, I passed around > markers and Lucy's footprints and everyone took one of each. I asked each > person to think of one word to say what they wanted to take from our two > days together and out into the world, reminding us of Sheila's closing and > how Sheila spoke of taking these people in our circle with us out into the > world. I asked that they take the first word to come to mind. When they > had > that, they wrote it on the footprint, got up, took their chair with them, > and put their footprint up on the sticky wall (the wall is an invention > of, > I think, as well as a gracious gift to be able to use from, Diana Lewis > and > La Leche League), and then stacked their chairs along the wall. Perhaps > Ted > Ernst has already posted on the website his pictures of the sticky wall of > footprints and the stacks of chairs. > > With this, our circle was opened, and our possibilities widened beyond our > individual dreams. It was over. > > Except for the feasting and celebrating later that evening at Mi Tierra. > > :-Doug. Germann > With whom would it be fun to converse? What better time than now? > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web - Check your email from the web at > http://mail2web.com/ . > > * > * > ========================================================== > 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 > -- Humanize the Earth! http://tedernst.com * * ========================================================== 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