San Francisco zoo

[Alan Stewart]

Hi Ralph and Matilda

My wife Carmen has a 'thing' about humming birds too. She will go into
absolute ecstacy when I relate my seeing of their doing at the Presidio ...

With love

Alan
www.multimindsolutions.com


On 7/31/08, Phelim McDermott <phelim at mac.com> wrote:
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> Hi Ralph,
>
> The last thing my  girlfriend Matilda and and I saw at Wosonos in SF
> straight after the closing circle was a Beautiful hummingbird doing it's
> nectar thing.. (She had never seen one before) and squirrels.. well don't
> start her on squirrel activity!!
>
>
> Phelimx
>  On 31 Jul 2008, at 09:21, Ralph Copleman wrote:
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>  *On groundhogs and fireflies...*
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>
> My wife and I once spent a delightful afternoon in the San Francisco zoo.
>  Clearly their animal collection is incomplete.
>
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> And I once passed an entire OT symposium as a self-described butterfly,
> sitting in the hotel lobby with my laptop working on a poem that I
> eventually shared during the closing circle.  During all those butterfly
> hours, all sorts of people fluttered by for short visits, some of them more
> than two or three times, and I found that people I had known for years at
> these annual OS events -- well I didn't really know them at all, and at
> least one life-long friendship then developed.  That week I came to deeply
> respect the concept of butterfly-ness, something I hadn't really taken
> seriously until then.
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>
> In New York City, at an OS event I once facilitated, a participant came up
> to me and said I needed to add another insect metaphor.  Butterflies and
> bumblebees were too soft.  New Yorkers love their sharp, colorful,
> rough-and-tumble, take-no-prisoners, style of dialogue, and many in that
> often quirky big city relish sarcasm.  This woman suggested I add hornets to
> the lexicon, because they have more sting.  I haven't, but I remembered the
> idea.  And personally, the more I think of it, the more I want to try out
> the groundhog thing.  Or the firefly.  Perhaps a cricket, or a hummingbird,
> or a flying squirrel...
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>
> I wish I'd been there with you.
>
>
> Ralph
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>   Ralph Copleman
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