[OSList] Please describe your experience of silence in Open Space events and Happy New Year!

[Shobha Kumar via OSList]

This so beautiful Carmela!! Thank you so much for sharing this precious gift for 2015!  I have read it through a number of times! So much wisdom!!

Happy and blessed 2015!

Shobha

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On Dec 31, 2014, at 11:57 PM, "Carmela Ariza via OSList" <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org<mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>> wrote:

Dear colleagues

Happy new year to all!

I would like to ask all about your experience of silence in OST - please describe your experience of silence while facilitating or as a participant in an open space event. I will put together all responses and share it again with the rest of the OSList subscribers...

I would also like to share with you a poem I wrote yesterday on the Many Faces of Silence...(see below). You may also read this on my poetry blogspot: Carmela's Poems and Prayers: THE MANY FACES OF SILENCE<http://carmela-poems-and-prayers.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-many-faces-of-silence.html>




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THE MANY FACES OF SILENCE
by: Carmela Ariza
31 December 2015, Panglao, Bohol, 10:22AM

INTENTIONAL SILENCE

I seek the woods
And the woods find me
I listen to the log
Lying, waiting
Eventual decay
In the offing

PUNCTUATED SILENCE

Storms
Bring me to a standstill
Blood
Rushing through my viens
Dread
Anxiously anticipating

DEAFENING SILENCE

Whirring thoughts
In a constant refrain
Burying oneself
In work or laughter
This is a sentence
Without reprieve

VEXED SILENCE

Incensed
Enraged
Outraged
Furious
!*@#^)(>$@
I walk away

PENSIVE SILENCE

Lost in deep thought
Questioning
Deliberate pondering
Wistful longing
Freefalling insights
Plucking wisdom

MOONSTRUCK SILENCE

Nervous but ecstatic
Consumed with desire
Smitten kitten
Tickled teakettle
Frolicking in the rapids
Restless, definitely not loveless

HEARTBROKEN SILENCE

Exposed
Vulnerable
Pricked
Betrayed
Inconsolable
Silent

EMERGENT SILENCE

Nine months in waiting
Coming out
Being true to oneself
Release and deliverance
Reaping, fruiting
Healing, in the fullness of time

SACRED SILENCE

In deep sorrow or deep pain
A child's embrace gives comfort
In contemplation
A coming home to the core
In harmony with nature
Oneness

THANKFUL SILENCE

Forbearance in difficult times
Appreciation for what gives rise to my existence
Reaching out to help the needy
Grateful surrender
Accepting the present
Here and now


I wish everyone OPEN SPACES FOR SILENCE THE WHOLE YEAR!

BLESSINGS to all!

Carms


True happiness is a state of mind.
Happiness is not a consequence of things that happen.
Do not pursue happiness - practice it.
Sing, even if you do not sound good.
Smile, even when things go wrong.
Create happiness, and happy you will be.
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