Ralph, This is absolutely beautiful. Like a soothing balm on a day when my heart hurts hearing angry voices of judgment and despair swirling around everywhere, fear-based I'm sure but after a while, it wears on you a bit or a lot. It's all about "opening space" in our lives isn't it and yes, as I've come to experience it, more space is better!
Suzanne Daigle On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Ralph Copleman <rcople...@comcast.net>wrote: > Some suggestions about the impact of snow... and open space. > > You know how we sometimes say that if you're in open space for a brief > time, say 4 to 8 hours, it's a very good, exploratory conversation, and that > if it goes as long as two days, you can get in to action planning, and that > if you go for about 2 1/2 days it becomes all about action planning... > Well... > > Six inches of snow pretty much closes up some spaces, but most stay open. > Twelve inches (in my part of the world) closes everything down for a day, > and 24 inches closes it all down for 2 days or longer. But something > happens at about the 18-inch mark. Conventional spaces may close down, but > new ones open. People gather in groups in their neighbors' homes to share > food and company, and talk with each other perhaps in different ways. One > e-mail I received said 35 inches (nearly a meter) fell and neighbors > organized a communal dinner -- and none had ever been in each other's homes > before. > > Say what you will about the deterioration of local community in America, > the snow storm has opened doors and spaces, and maybe hearts, too, in > memorable ways. > > Ralph Copleman > > * > * > ========================================================== > 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 > -- Suzanne Daigle NuFocus Strategic Group 7159 Victoria Circle University Park, FL 34201 FL 941-359-8877; CT 203-722-2009 www.nufocusgroup.com s.dai...@nufocusgroup.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