Snow and Open Space

[Suzanne Daigle]

Ralph,

This is absolutely beautiful. Like a soothing balm on a day when my heart
hurts hearing  angry voices of judgment and despair swirling around
everywhere, fear-based I'm sure but after a while, it wears on you a bit or
a lot. It's all about "opening space" in our lives isn't it and yes, as I've
come to experience it, more space is better!

Suzanne Daigle

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Ralph Copleman <rcopleman at comcast.net>wrote:

> Some suggestions about the impact of snow... and open space.
>
> You know how we sometimes say that if you're in open space for a brief
> time, say 4 to 8 hours, it's a very good, exploratory conversation, and that
> if it goes as long as two days, you can get in to action planning, and that
> if you go for about 2 1/2 days it becomes all about action planning...
>  Well...
>
> Six inches of snow pretty much closes up some spaces, but most stay open.
>  Twelve inches (in my part of the world) closes everything down for a day,
> and 24 inches closes it all down for 2 days or longer.  But something
> happens at about the 18-inch mark.  Conventional spaces may close down, but
> new ones open.  People gather in groups in their neighbors' homes to share
> food and company, and talk with each other perhaps in different ways.  One
> e-mail I received said 35 inches (nearly a meter) fell and neighbors
> organized a communal dinner -- and none had ever been in each other's homes
> before.
>
> Say what you will about the deterioration of local community in America,
> the snow storm has opened doors and spaces, and maybe hearts, too, in
> memorable ways.
>
> Ralph Copleman
>
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