San Francisco zoo

Phelim McDermott phelim at mac.com
Thu Jul 31 21:03:07 PDT 2008


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:

> 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
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