Re: helping the whole

2009-06-15 Thread douglas germann
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Re: helping the whole

2009-06-15 Thread Wendy Farmer-O'Neil
Associates in Transformation Toronto, Ontario, Canada la...@spiritedorg.com 416.653.4829 http://www.spiritedorg.com From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Wendy Farmer-O'Neil Sent: June-12-09 1:56 AM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: [OSLIST] Fwd: [OSLIST

Re: christopher (was helping the whole)

2009-06-14 Thread douglas germann
Raffi-- You are lucky you have a library which has it. I am lucky I have a friend who has loaned it to me. Alexander does speak of the spiritual several places, but he plays it really low key. Another interesting twist is that he seems to want to show that there can be a mathematics of life, a m

Re: Fwd: [OSLIST] helping the whole

2009-06-14 Thread douglas germann
sestate.edu] On Behalf Of > Wendy Farmer-O'Neil > Sent: June-12-09 1:56 AM > To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > Subject: [OSLIST] Fwd: [OSLIST] helping the whole > > > > > > > > > > >

Re: helping the whole

2009-06-14 Thread douglas germann
Wendy-- Thanks. I am enjoying this book--it is so evocative for me. What he is writing seems so applicable to how people meet. What do you mean by "Circles of Belonging" Wendy? :- Doug. On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 21:28 -0700, Wendy Farmer-O'Neil wrote: > Circles of Belongin

Re: Fwd: [OSLIST] helping the whole

2009-06-12 Thread Larry Peterson
Subject: [OSLIST] Fwd: [OSLIST] helping the whole Circles of Belonging, Doug. Don't we feel most alive when we know we are truly significant? That our existence matters essentially to another? We can only see that truly reflected in the eyes of our community. Explains modern e

helping the whole

2009-06-11 Thread douglas germann
Hi-- Another evocative piece from Christopher Alexander: It is their presence in the whole, and the fact that they are helping the life of the whole, which gives them their individual lifeItalics in original. Christopher Alexander, The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and The

Fwd: [OSLIST] helping the whole

2009-06-11 Thread Wendy Farmer-O'Neil
Circles of Belonging, Doug. Don't we feel most alive when we know we are truly significant? That our existence matters essentially to another? We can only see that truly reflected in the eyes of our community. Explains modern existential angst. Without true community and a way to find o

christopher (was helping the whole)

2009-06-11 Thread Raffi Aftandelian
cher doug (and all), much appreciate you sharing these more-than-tweets about christopher. indeed, those sharings motivated me to trudge down to the local library and also pick up his Nature of Order. I imagine Christopher to be kind of a Harrison of *physical* space, minus the cowboy hat, the s