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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>
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