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

[Harold Shinsato via OSList]

Thank you Carmela & Chris for the beautiful and relevant poetry on Silence.

And thank you Lisa for the poetry about Lurking, too. Hmmm - here's a Haiku.


Lurking in silence
The pregnancy of pauses
Waiting to engage


     A Happy 2015 to all!
     Warmest Regards from Snowy Montana

P.S. Hope to see you in NYC, 15-18 January, 
http://osius.org/content/opening-space-peace-and-high-performance-2015



On 1/1/15 2:04 PM, Chris Corrigan via OSList wrote:
> Silence and space are
> a place to receive
> what is subtly perceived
>
> and need to be held with the terror of not knowing
> that causes the error
> of filling space to show that
>
> you are certain this will work
> and you know what will happen
> but what lurks in this shadow
>
> is a stealing
> of potential
> because you can never know
>
> what will be essential
> to every group in any context
> so don’t stoop to the base level
>
> of stopping evolution
> because you afraid that you don’t have
> the solution
>
> that you think we need -
> silence and space is the way
> we will feed ourselves.
>
> Chris.
>
>
>> On Dec 31, 2014, at 8:56 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>
>>
>> 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
>>

-- 
Harold Shinsato
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