Adhocracy

Pannwitz, Michael M mmpanne at boscop.de
Wed Sep 29 13:57:55 PDT 2004


Even if we dont throw a leave into the stream....it is an
everevolving, selforganizing, neverthesame stream...
mmp

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:35:17 -0400, Douglas D. Germann, Sr. wrote:

>To my good friends--
>
>Is it possible that what we are producing with our practice of open space
>is exactly what we need to produce?
>
>Specifically, from time to time we sometimes lament the fact that there is
>nothing "lasting" from an OST meeting--the organization on Monday becomes
>again what it was last Monday, nothing seems to have changed. Yet perhaps
>we did have a lasting impact.
>
>In meditation this morning, this thought came to me: "No as a matter of
>fact we are not after continuing meetings of this group. We are after
>people doing things. That may or may not mean meetings. It certainly does
>not mean creaking organizations."
>
>People in this age have little energy for creating an organization. There
>just is not time enough in the day to take on something that will require
>our involvement for years. We are in the mode of sprinters not marathoners.
>So what? If--1. Whatever Happens does some good and 2. the people do say
>Yes, I remember a day when we did some good--are the only two things that
>are accomplished, have we not done a lasting good?
>
>Any time we throw a leaf into the stream, or a drop of water, is it not a
>new stream?
>
>                              :-Doug. Germann
>                              Seeking people making community change.
>
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