Management in a World of Turtles

Thu Feb 17 03:05:59 PST 2005

Hello all.
I have been on this list for a while listening to all your great
self-organizing open spaced turtlevoices. I am an OS turtle wisard my
self....and lately I had an extrodinary oppurtunity to watch a big giant
Letherback Turtle laying it´s eggs!!!! Magic? Yes!! These creatures are
just pure beaty and magic. In their slowness and trance they just do
what they have to do - smooth and soft.

Under a rich star sky barefooted in the sand, at a beach in Costa Rica,
with the sound of wawes of the Pacific in my ears I was sitting behind -
simply reaching out and touching this giants back! Their story is
increadible. Each female turtle come up to lay eggs 9 times during a
periode of 2-3 months every time the moon is gone. Not 5 times, not 7
times.... It takes all in all 2 hours to move their corpses, dig the
whole and laying 60-80 eggs big like tennisballs. The last 20 eggs are
fake  - in case of predators! They never see the baby turtles again.
Knowbody really knows where they mate, they only meet while they mate
and how and where the males live is still a mystery. The females might
swim from Galapagos to this specific coast line - only 5 km - in the
world, but where they go inbetween knowbody really knows. The babies
allways come back to the same place where they were born to lay their
eggs, first time at age of 15...

At the end of this amazing spectacle I saw two shooting stars - at the
same time....... Well do I need to say that this was like being in the
middle of crazy and healing wisdom comming from beyond and going
beyond....and that the universe and I went swinging....

You might all know the story "MOMO" written by the german author Michael
Ende - otherwise go and read it! It´s a story about the girl Momo, her
friends and the Grey Men stealing the time. One of her friends is the
turtle Cassiopeia who has this great ability to know the future 30
minutes in advance..... At some point they are trying to escape the Grey
Men, who runs and runs very fast to get them. But at Cassiopeias back is
printet with red letters the true Turtle Power: the slower your walk the
quicker you get to your point! The slower the girl and the turtle walks,
the more behind the Grey Men seems....  And that is a true story...

I am an Open Space host too, danish by the way - and just to let you
know you will get an invitation very soon to "The Castle Borl Experience
2005"! I am a part of the hosting team this year. Filiz is right - there
is some special magic there.

Great day to your all

Tine Huge

HUGE-LØBENDE TANKE (Running Thaught)
Enghavevej 9, 2.th.
1674 Copenhagen V.
Denmark
+ 45 2859 6025
huge at loebendetanke.dk
www.loebendetanke.dk (not yet in english)

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Fra: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] På vegne af Harrison
Owen
Sendt: 16. februar 2005 23:50
Til: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Emne: Re: Management in a World of Turtles

And you know what happens when people start talking about The Power of
Turtles??? Very strange things!

ho

Harrison Owen
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Phone 301-365-2093

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Juan
Luis Walker B.
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 3:35 PM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: Management in a World of Turtles

In short terms, I would invite him to go and speak to his boss, with the
trust and courage of his awareness, and begin to talk about the power of
turtles...

Juan Luis

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