You beauty, Harrison,
Thank you for that.
Deb Hartman kindly pointed me to the spot for your quote.
My eyes were spinning this morning by the time I tried to find it.
So it was great to have Deb's prompt and your simple suggestion.
Together, you both took all the foof out of my flumox.
Now I feel much more like a self-organising system.
Not sane, however, but then I dropped my aspirations towards sanity
many years ago.
Trying to be sane was too depressing for me.
Its rewards didn't match the effort involved.
Now I allow mainly open space to fill the gap between my ears.
(Except when I misplace a quote, with a deadline looming, of course.)
Allison.
On 20/11/2007, at 9:31 AM, Harrison Owen wrote:
Well you sort of got me. I know the author. Nobody would talk like
that
except me. And you may question the wisdom of all that. But as to the
citation, I am not sure. Given the date, I would say "The Power of
Spirit:
How Organizations Transform" (Berrett-Koehler). On the other hand I
don't
remember saying anything like that in "Spirit" -- But I do recall
something
to the same effect in, "The Practice of Peace"(Human Systems Dynamics
Institute). But in the interest of your sanity (to say nothing of
protecting
me from charges of loosing my own) -- I think you can safely
attribute it to
"Harrison Owen -- personal communication." Always works when I get
into a
tight spot. :-)
Harrison
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