Re: [OSList] Lonely

2014-10-03 Thread a...@alanhalford.com.au via OSList
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Re: [OSList] Lonely

2014-10-02 Thread Harold Shinsato
Thank you Peggy, Chris, Annamarie, Rosa, Allie, John, for such a wonderful conversation. I'm adding another word to the list from my Hawaiian heritage (ohana), and the Lakota version of Chris' indinewmaganik (mitkuye oyasin). As virtual note taker - here are all these lovely words & traditions

Re: [OSList] Lonely

2014-10-02 Thread Rosa Zubizarreta via OSList
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Re: [OSList] Lonely

2014-10-02 Thread Peggy Holman via OSList
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Re: [OSList] Lonely

2014-09-30 Thread Allie Middleton
And of course in the Vedic tradition, where we sing the Sanskrit 'so hum' or 'sat nam' mantra together, when chanted with intention it's like the universal sound of OM...joint mind and heart, personal and transpersonal and that practice seems to seal the sense of connection - a practice aka - s

Re: [OSList] Lonely

2014-09-30 Thread Annamarie Pluhar
OMG! I wanted to keep quiet until everyone had a chance to offer their thoughts, (natural facilitator stance) but I must say that these thoughts and offerings are RICH.! Thank you all most heart-feltily/fully. The question remains about opposites to the word "lonely".. Stephane (I can't fin

Re: [OSList] Lonely

2014-09-30 Thread Harold Shinsato
Chris - thanks for the tie back to Cynefin! It does sound like a profound opposite of lonely, 'your places of multiple belongings'. Your explanation of Cynefin stimulated my recollection of the meaning of another possible opposite of lonely, the word Ubuntu, from the African Ngali Bantu langua

Re: [OSList] Lonely

2014-09-30 Thread Chris Corrigan
Although I don't speak Welsh, one word I find very compelling is Cynefin pronounced "kuh-NIV-en". I know the word because it's the name of of complexity framework. But it also means "your places of multiple belonging". That refers to the fact that all of us feel many different homes and many dif

Re: [OSList] Lonely

2014-09-30 Thread John Watkins
And I would add this, a beautiful poem by Raymond Carver, which pretty well defines my sense of the opposite of lonely: Late Fragment - by Raymond Carver And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the ea

[OSList] Lonely

2014-09-30 Thread Harold Shinsato via OSList
Annamarie, Thank you for a lovely question! The opposite of lonely is what I very often experience in Open Space. This theme also resonates to much of what we talked about on the OS Hotline today. I must confess to have used an internet thesaurus to answer your question. http://www.thesaurus