New Sight

[Meg Salter]

Hello Harrison
I hope all is going well post surgery and that the red hot poker is
receeding.
Whatever shall we do when you come at the world with both eyes fully
blazing?
Meg Salter

MegaSpace Consulting
(416) 486-6660
meg at megsalter.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harrison Owen" <hhowen at comcast.net>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 10:05 AM
Subject: Rank and Privilege


Therese - I guess I was too short again. I saw your first paragraph, and my
eyes didn't make it to the second - all about rank and privilege. I suppose
there is a certain privilege that comes with experience, but hopefully it is
earned. I would also hope that a day never comes when it (experience, rank,
and privilege) stand unchallenged. Speaking as the elder, who I suppose I
am, I feel under a great obligation to share what I have experienced. And
when I feel strongly about something, I feel an equal obligation to express
myself as clearly and directly as I am able. Speaking as a participant of
this remarkable LIST, I feel in some way cheated when no conversation
ensues. What I have experienced, what we have all experienced, is only a
starting point. What we are experiencing now, and what we anticipate
experiencing is the growing edge, and that is where the fun happens. In a
very real way, rank and privilege stop in the present moment where we are
all neophytes and co-learners.  I might also say that one of the distinct
disadvantages of OSLIST is that you can't see how folks are doing in the
moment. For myself, I can report that on Monday, some nice doctors at John's
Hopkins Medical Center gave me a new cornea for my right eye. The good news
is that I will probably be able to have the use of that eye when things
heal. The bad news is that right at the moment it feels like somebody stuck
a hot poker in my eye which makes seeing quite difficult and tends to put an
edge on things emotionally. So forgive me if I sounded short. It was not
intentional.

Harrison

Harrison Owen
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Potomac, Maryland   20845
Phone 301-365-2093

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