[OSList] Friendships, purpose and meaning

[Suzanne Daigle]

Has it ever happened where you know that the most amazing conversation is
going on (i.e. The 5th Principle) but in that moment you are choosing not to
be part? Here and there you catch a word, a phrase, a thought or a concept.
You’re excited because you know that later you’ll get a chance to engage or
not engage. Indeed the postings on the OS list will always be there waiting
so that you can pour yourself into the depth of those discussions.  In the
meantime, you feel the vibes and the energy as if you were actively
participating. That energy is in fact infusing itself into your own
conversations and you experience a warm glow from those dynamic exchanges.
In that moment you feel so very connected. You pause, in awe, knowing that
you are in a non local virtual Open Space.  A butterfly, who may become a
bumble bee?

Here I was travelling from Connecticut through Maine with a new and  dear
Open Space friend Ralph Fink who will be joining my colleagues and me for
our annual Open Space summit in New Brunswick Canada.  We had left on our
long journey after a delicious breakfast prepared by Clair, Ralph’s wife who
I had just met.

Yesterday, I was a guest in another home with another new and special Open
Space colleague and friend Chuni Li.  The two of us have been working with
an incredible group preparing a major Open Space event that will take place
in mid June in New Jersey.  Again I am in awe because the Li family has
welcomed me like family on more than one occasion.

Yes I revel in these new found friendships and the purposeful work that is
emerging-- friendships and projects that would never have happened had it
not been for Open Space which we are all so very passionate about. And then
I read Christine Whitney Sanchez’s note inviting us to check out the
upcoming OS event called: Vibrant Phoenix. So in the scheme of things, I
conclude that space is being opened on a small scale and a much larger
scale, each important and significant in their own way.  And what I marvel
at also is how connected we all are, directly and indirectly.

Suzanne (en route to Canada, now in Maine)

-- 
Suzanne Daigle
NuFocus Strategic Group
7159 Victoria Circle
University Park, FL 34201
FL 941-359-8877;
CT 203-722-2009
www.nufocusgroup.com
s.daigle at nufocusgroup.com
twitter @suzannedaigle
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