Opening Space for a Closing World

[Julie Smith]

Okay, Harrison.  I'll take you up on this one.  You said:

"So I thought to myself, thought I, how to open some more space -
anywhere,
anyhow, with anyone???? Doing an OS is cool, but surely that represents
but
a tiny fraction of the opportunities available.  So come on Folks
(Lurkers
included) how do we open up some more space? And how are we doing right
now.
Perhaps if we shared we cold give each other some really good ideas."

I could use some good ideas about now.

I reported some time ago that I'm now the "executive director" (please,
anyone, give me a better word to describe what I do!) of our local
Montessori preschool.  I love the Montessori philosophy, and the
children are blossoming in beautiful, amazing ways. Goodness abounds.
Trouble is, in spite of many, many wonderful staff and parents, we
suffer from a lack of cohesion and community between staff, between
parents, and between staff and parents.  Truth is, I often come home
feeling frayed, frustrated, misunderstood and unappreciated. (Good
grief! Is that me talking? How did I get here????)

There you have it.  I could tell you a longer version, but I doubt the
telling would add anything significant (and it might resemble whining).


And here is my question (remembering now from a brief encounter with the
I Ching that the framing of the question is as revealing as the
receiving of the answer)(now feeling even greater pressure to get it
right): How do I help this community I love make the journey from where
we are now to a place of mutual understanding, regard, and purpose?  How
do we tap our enormous reservoir of intelligence, love, and intention
for the greater good of us all?  How do we, as a community, engage in
that energizing, invigorating, inspiring dance on the spiral of
expanding consciousness?

I release my questions to you, the universe.  I look forward with great
anticipation to all that comes back to me.

(And now I laugh, remembering another time I forgot the answers I
already knew, and Chris C. sharing a poem that told that old story most
beautifully.  Sometimes I wonder whether we forget not only for
ourselves, but perhaps for others as well. And so I am willing to reveal
my forgetting again.)

(And I heard Harrison's question in my soul, asking me to answer. So at
the same time that I ask the universe for answers, I am the universe
answering.)

(It's great to be writing here again.  Nothing like it, anywhere, for
me.)

Much love ~~~

Julie

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