San Francisco zoo

[Ralph Copleman]

On groundhogs and fireflies...

My wife and I once spent a delightful afternoon in the San Francisco  
zoo.  Clearly their animal collection is incomplete.

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.

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...

I wish I'd been there with you.

Ralph


Ralph Copleman
44 Titus Avenue
Lawrence Township, NJ 08648
H: 609-896-9714
C: 609-865-3466





*
*
==========================================================
OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
------------------------------
To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options,
view the archives of oslist at listserv.boisestate.edu:
http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html

To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs:
http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20080731/c0c29875/attachment-0015.htm>