powerful poem! help me understand it.

2005-08-11 Thread john engle
hi brendan, kairi and others. i've never opened space in a prison but i have participated in a touchstones discussion (http://touchstones.org) with about 25 men serving life sentences. the discussion centered around "power" and not surprisingly, i learned a great deal. great that you are doi

powerful poem! help me understand it.

2005-08-11 Thread john engle
hi brendan, kairi and others. i've never opened space in a prison but i have participated in a touchstones discussion (http://touchstones.org) with about 25 men serving life sentences. the discussion centered around "power" and not surprisingly, i learned a great deal. great that you are doi

FW: powerful poem! help me understand it.

2005-08-11 Thread Karen Sella
aching.com 206.780.2998 -Original Message- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of john engle Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 12:17 PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: powerful poem! help me understand it. hi brendan, kairi and others. i've never op

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2005-08-11 Thread Filiz Telek
Dear John and all... the way I understand the poem is like this... I think hopi elders are using the term struggle as the work we are called to do, to heal ourselves, to heal the world, whatever that means...not necessarily the struggle to survive...struggle brings to mind doing something out o

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2005-08-13 Thread Funda Oral
ot strong or rich enough to end struggle. I guess we need more trembling hearts, more resources and better cooperation for that. Funda - Original Message - From: "john engle" To: Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 10:17 PM Subject: powerful poem! help me understand it. hi bren

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2005-08-13 Thread Harrison Owen
: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 6:40 AM Subject: Re: powerful poem! help me understand it. Dear John and everybody, I live in a city where one can see extreme cases ( richness and poorness, joy and powerty so on...) in a short distance from each other

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2005-08-13 Thread Judith Richardson PONO Consultants International
3, 2005 9:19 AM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Re: powerful poem! help me understand it. Funda -- I am not sure that Opening Space is such a minimal contribution to the lives of those who struggle in whatever way. In fact it may just be the only truly useful one. Physical and social

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2005-08-13 Thread EVERETT813
John, Wonderful to see you again in Halifax. The event was quite moving for me on several occasions. Great that we had 12 countries represented and many first-timers from Canada as well as a few from elsewhere. The Canada OSonOS team did marvelously and I found the setting most appropria