[OSList] Lonely

Tue Sep 30 16:54:11 PDT 2014

Chris - thanks for the tie back to Cynefin! It does sound like a 
profound opposite of lonely, 'your places of multiple belongings'.

Your explanation of Cynefin stimulated my recollection of the meaning of 
another possible opposite of lonely, the word Ubuntu, from the African 
Ngali Bantu language meaning 'I am what I am because of who we all are'.

On 9/30/14 5:29 PM, Chris Corrigan wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
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> On Sep 30, 2014, at 2:19 PM, John Watkins via OSList 
> <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org 
> <mailto: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 <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
>>>>
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