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.
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From: Marei Kiele
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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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