PRE-INVITATION XIX WOSonOS CHILE 2011 (corrected)

Elisabeth Tepper elitepperk at gmail.com
Sat Oct 16 11:36:14 PDT 2010


Gracias JL!  Por compartir tus emociones y tus impresiones sobre este evento que como bien describes pasará a la historia por muchas razones!  Gracias 
Elisabeth 

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From: JL Walker <jlwalker at terra.cl>
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Date:         Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:54:09 
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Thank you very much again my dear Suzanne for your always loving and
inspiring words and comments.

As a gift that makes sense with all this experience, I am sending you and
all, the Canto XII from The Heights of Macchu Picchu of Pablo Neruda.

A big hug

Juan Luis

http://www.espacioabierto.net 

 

Arise to birth with me, my brother.
Give me your hand out of the depths
sown by your sorrows.
You will not return from these stone fastnesses.
You will not emerge from subterranean time.
Your rasping voice will not come back,
nor your pierced eyes rise from their sockets.

Look at me from the depths of the earth,
tiller of fields, weaver, reticent shepherd,
groom of totemic guanacos,
mason high on your treacherous scaffolding,
iceman of Andean tears,
jeweler with crushed fingers,
farmer anxious among his seedlings,
potter wasted among his clays--
bring to the cup of this new life
your ancient buried sorrows.
Show me your blood and your furrow;
say to me: here I was scourged
because a gem was dull or because the earth
failed to give up in time its tithe of corn or stone.
Point out to me the rock on which you stumbled,
the wood they used to crucify your body.
Strike the old flints
to kindle ancient lamps, light up the whips
glued to your wounds throughout the centuries
and light the axes gleaming with your blood.

I come to speak for your dead mouths.

Throughout the earth
let dead lips congregate,
out of the depths spin this long night to me
as if I rode at anchor here with you.

And tell me everything, tell chain by chain,
and link by link, and step by step;
sharpen the knives you kept hidden away,
thrust them into my breast, into my hands,
like a torrent of sunbursts,
an Amazon of buried jaguars,
and leave me cry: hours, days and years,
blind ages, stellar centuries.

And give me silence, give me water, hope.

Give me the struggle, the iron, the volcanoes.

Let bodies cling like magnets to my body.

Come quickly to my veins and to my mouth.

Speak through my speech, and through my blood. 

Pablo Neruda

 

De: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] En nombre de Suzanne
Daigle
Enviado el: miércoles, 13 de octubre de 2010 10:38
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Asunto: Re: [OSLIST] PRE-INVITATION XIX WOSonOS CHILE 2011 (corrected)

And as an old song says over here:“Y veras como quieren en Chile al amigo
cuando es forastero”.

Juan Luis

Translation "And you will know how in Chile they love friends that are
strangers."   

  Today more than ever Juan Luis, we are no longer strangers, we are all
friends. 

Juan Luis, as I was  watching the miners, one by one, being welcomed by
their family, their country and the world, listening to the passionate chant
of "Chile" being repeated over and over again, remembering you doing the
same in Berlin when you invited us to the 2011 WOSonOS , I felt I had to
reach out in collective celebration of life and our common humanity.  

And then to hear the story of how a white butterfly is what probably saved
the lives of a few of those miners just moments before the mine collapsed,
how could I not think of Open Space, the work that we do and our wonderful
international community.  It appears the miners had slowed down their truck
to admire in wonder this beautiful creature rarely if ever seen in the depth
of a mine and as they did, rocks came crashing down right in front of them.
By doing nothing, being still to admire this beautiful butterfly, it opened
space for life and new beginnings. 

Friendship from us to you and all of Chile on this special day!







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