Metaphors for the magic?

Funda Oral fundaokan at superonline.com
Sun Nov 21 12:19:29 PST 2004


another metaphore would be a "cold shower"...it's hard at the beginning but afterwards makes you feel good.
----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Marei Kiele 
  To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU 
  Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 12:30 AM
  Subject: Re: Metaphors for the magic?




  Even if using metaphors has been debunked in the meantime I add this little piece:


  Hi Doug,

  again with delay as I am working my way through hundreds of mails I have saved but not read yet. 

  I like your popcorn methaphor - and the little dirt, a little manure, a few seeds and some rainy days and in no time you get flowers ower all - magic!

  Here is one I used different times: 

  OST is like the Überraschungs-Ei (suprise-egg?), a chocolate-candy for children with a little toy inside sold by Ferrero in Germany and different other countries: you get 3 things for one price. The chocolate-egg-add promises play, fun and chocolate. And in open space one gets extraordinary results, team building and personal developement. And even fun on top.

  Greetings,
  Marei



   "Douglas D. Germann, Sr." <mailto:76066.515 at compuserve.com> schrieb:
  > Dear friends--
  > 
  > In the last few weeks I have been increasingly frustrated by the responses I
  > get from people to my descriptions of a community OST event I am otherwise
  > having fun dis-organizing. <grin>
  > 
  > When I try to describe the magic of OS, I get responses like the one the
  > other day: "Oh, you mean it is a networking event?"
  > 
  > So I have been thinking of what kinds of metaphors might communicate the
  > magic, mystery and awe we find in experience.
  > 
  > What concrete metaphors can you think of for something that produces
  > unexpected results, out of all proportion--quantitatively or
  > qualitatively--to what the initial conditions were (that is, people gathering
  > to converse)?
  > 
  > Here are a couple I have come up with, so far:
  > 
  > This is like shaking a bottle of pop--and then popping the
  > lid. It is like popcorn--a little corn, a little oil, a
  > little heat--soon a reaction gives us enough food for a
  > party! Or who could predict, without knowing humanity, that
  > a party in the back seat of a '56 Chevy would lead to dirty
  > diapers at 4 am? This is a boiling roiling pot; a darkroom
  > where pictures of the future can be developed; a
  > germinating kettle for works new and wonderful. A few seeds
  > in the wind, a collection of moisture, a little time, and
  > soon even the desert blooms. A little dirt, a little
  > manure, a few seeds, some rainy days, and in no time you
  > get flowers all over! A little dollop of batter in the paper
  > becomes an overflowing muffin.
  > 
  > This is a creative group--I am sure you will be able to come up with greater
  > metaphors than these.
  > 
  >                               :-Doug. Germann
  >                               Seeking people making community change.
  > 
  > *


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