location of OSonOSinUS notes Re: Ideas please for a different closing

[Ted Ernst]

The correct address for the notes is http://openspaceworld.net
peace,
ted

On 11/15/05, 76066.515 at compuserve.com <76066.515 at compuserve.com> wrote:
>
> Joelle and Tree and Koos and Lisa and Zelle and all--
>
> Hopefully this will go to the list. Got a lot of good suggestions from you
> all and I thank each one of you and all y'all (as I've learned to say here
> in San Antonio (and to never say San Antone to someone from San
> Antonio!)).
> Apparently some of my responses yesterday went just to the people who sent
> their ideas to the list rather than to the list as I had intended. I just
> do not understand the foreign systems I am having to use while away from
> my
> computer! So I hope you will forgive me for mis-sent messages! And
> espcecially I hope you will know how I thank each one of you for your
> contributions.
>
> So here is what we did (and you will see your influence in the whole):
>
> Susan Hughes helped me go over to the Alamo and walk around the grounds
> and
> find an appropriate plant. It was a hummingbird bush (Susan can tell us
> the
> scientific name and correct what I say here--Susan?). It is indigenous to
> Texas and grows wild all around. It attracts butterflies (we saw a few
> wonderful swallowtails) and bumblebees. It's seed pod, when ripe, bursts
> open and scatters seed on the wind. This sprig we used for our listening
> stick.
>
> We started with a few moments for people to review their notes (reports
> are
> all on line at http://www.openspaceworld.org ) or to just enjoy the
> silence. A few people busily wrote notes, some closed their eyes.
>
> Then we brought out the listening sprig, Susan explained it, and we placed
> it in the center. It never made it back to the center but once or twice,
> flitting to and fro like a butterfly, landing in each person's lap by the
> time we were done. I had invited singing and one person sang and invited
> others to sing with her.
>
> Earlier in the day I had asked if anyone was good with scissors. Lucy
> volunteered and cut out footprints from half sheets of paper. She even
> drew
> in toes and put polish on the nails!
>
> So after the listening sprig made it back to the center, I passed around
> markers and Lucy's footprints and everyone took one of each. I asked each
> person to think of one word to say what they wanted to take from our two
> days together and out into the world, reminding us of Sheila's closing and
> how Sheila spoke of taking these people in our circle with us out into the
> world. I asked that they take the first word to come to mind. When they
> had
> that, they wrote it on the footprint, got up, took their chair with them,
> and put their footprint up on the sticky wall (the wall is an invention
> of,
> I think, as well as a gracious gift to be able to use from, Diana Lewis
> and
> La Leche League), and then stacked their chairs along the wall. Perhaps
> Ted
> Ernst has already posted on the website his pictures of the sticky wall of
> footprints and the stacks of chairs.
>
> With this, our circle was opened, and our possibilities widened beyond our
> individual dreams. It was over.
>
> Except for the feasting and celebrating later that evening at Mi Tierra.
>
> :-Doug. Germann
> With whom would it be fun to converse? What better time than now?
>
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