[OSList] Lonely

Chris Corrigan via OSList oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
Tue Sep 30 16:29:08 PDT 2014


Although I don't speak Welsh, one word I find very compelling is Cynefin pronounced "kuh-NIV-en". I know the word because it's the name of of complexity framework. But it also means "your places of multiple belonging". That refers to the fact that all of us feel many different homes and many different places where we feel connected in the world in English there's no word that can capture this sense of multiple belonging but I do like the idea that such a sentiment need to name. 

In Anishnabemowin which is the language of Ojibway and related peoples of North America, the word indinewmaganik means "all my relations" but is actually better translated as "I belong to everything." That's as good an opposite of "lonely" as I can think of. 
 



-- 
CHRIS CORRIGAN
Harvest Moon Consultants
Facilitation, Open Space Technology and process design 

Check www.chriscorrigan.com for upcoming workshops, blog posts and free resources. 



> On Sep 30, 2014, at 2:19 PM, John Watkins via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
> 
> And I would add this, a beautiful poem by Raymond Carver, which pretty well defines my sense of the opposite of lonely:
> 
> Late Fragment - by Raymond Carver
> And did you get what
> you wanted from this life, even so?
> I did.
> And what did you want?
> To call myself beloved, to feel myself
> beloved on the earth.
> 
> John
> 
>> On Sep 30, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Harold Shinsato via OSList wrote:
>> 
>> Annamarie,
>> 
>> Thank you for a lovely question! The opposite of lonely is what I very often experience in Open Space. This theme also resonates to much of what we talked about on the OS Hotline today.
>> 
>> I must confess to have used an internet thesaurus to answer your question. http://www.thesaurus.com. In English at least, some opposites of lonely are (the emphasis in bold is my own):
>> 
>> * populated
>> * sociable
>> * befriended 
>> * close
>> * frequented
>> * inhabited 
>> * loved
>> * unlonely 
>> 
>>     Warm Regards,
>>     Harold
>> 
>>> On 9/30/14 4:54 AM, Annamarie Pluhar via OSList wrote:
>>> Hi all, 
>>> 
>>> For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because there are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I hope that you will forgive me for asking an off topic question. 
>>> 
>>> For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not English....  Does your language have a word that is the opposite of "lonely"? 
>>> 
>>> Feel free to respond to me off list.. 
>>> 
>>> annamarie at pluharconsulting.com 
>>> 
>>> Thanks! 
>>> 
>>> Annamarie Pluhar 
>>> 
>>> Pluhar Consulting 
>>> http://www.pluharconsulting.com 
>>> 802.451.1941 
>>> 802.579.5975 (cell) 
>>> _______________________________________________ 
>>> OSList mailing list 
>>> To post send emails to OSList at lists.openspacetech.org 
>>> To unsubscribe send an email to OSList-leave at lists.openspacetech.org 
>>> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: 
>>> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Harold Shinsato
>> harold at shinsato.com
>> http://shinsato.com
>> twitter: @hajush
>> _______________________________________________
>> OSList mailing list
>> To post send emails to OSList at lists.openspacetech.org
>> To unsubscribe send an email to OSList-leave at lists.openspacetech.org
>> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:
>> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
> 
> _______________________________________________
> OSList mailing list
> To post send emails to OSList at lists.openspacetech.org
> To unsubscribe send an email to OSList-leave at lists.openspacetech.org
> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:
> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20140930/e439e719/attachment-0003.htm>


More information about the OSList mailing list