Hello all, First, did you notice that there have been almost 300 messages sent into this list since the morning of 9/11? It looks like an impromptu open space emerged. I am grateful to all of you for holding this space in such a time of need.
There may be people on this list that have lost friends or loved ones in NY, DC, or PA. It's such an unimaginable thing that I don't even know what to say next. If you have experienced a loss, I know there is a lot of love and caring that wants to enfold you. There has to be many of you that had scares concerning people you couldn't contact for days. And I imagine you are still jumpy. My main reason for writing this is to share a couple of things our daughter told us. She has people calling her asking for details. Lisa says it's as though they missed a couple of episodes of their favorite Soap Opera. She says, "Don't they know this is in our back yard and we are living with it moment by moment?" A couple of days ago, someone sent a large PowerPoint File to her. The kind that autoruns. She couldn't get it to stop -- to go away. I suppose it would have been simple to stop it, but she was upset. These images rerun what they're trying to get out of their eyes, ears, and noses. We see a truck on TV. They smell it coming. We saw a building fall. They felt in through the ground. Yesterday, Lisa and a friend exited their building on the way to lunch. As they walked out the door they found themselves in a small crowd of people. Lisa looked up just in time to see a person leap from a building and land practically at their feet. Someone, either unable to bear the stress of the times, or maybe someone realizing their loved one was never coming home. Please be more than sensitive when you talk, write, send. Our experience, I'm sure is mild to what others are going through -- what others can't even talk about. Thanks, John -- John Dicus | CornerStone Consulting Associates - Leadership - Systems Thinking - Teamwork - Open Space - Electric Maze - 2761 Stiegler Road, Valley City, OH 44280 800-773-8017 | 330-725-2728 (2729 fax) mailto:jdi...@ourfuture.com | http://www.ourfuture.com * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
