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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN class=230431022-11042000>Dear
Ralph</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN class=230431022-11042000>Thank you for comments
and your sharing of your time in Open Space - appreciated and enjoyed as
always. Virginia</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]<B>On Behalf Of </B>glory
ressler<BR><B>Sent:</B> April 10, 2000 7:17 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: More on The
Law<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>Dear Ralph and Florian <BR>I don't know the two of you
and you don't know me <U>but</U> I know Birgitt and having been in a space she
opened and having read all the discourse on the 'Law of ....' I thank the both
of you for keeping the good vibe happening and sharing it on the
listserve. Thanks to Birgitt. Thanks to Harrison. Thanks to
Open Space. <BR>Glory Ressler
<P>Florian Fischer wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE">ralph, <BR>i red it as if being together with you.
<BR>gave me a good feeling, good vibration. <BR>its only certainty, which
makes real things happen, <BR>isnīt it. <BR>love <BR>florian
<P>Ralph Copleman schrieb:
<P>> Hi, <BR>> <BR>> Funny things happen on the road to certainty.
<BR>> <BR>> Over this past weekend, I was in some open space.
I've been opening the <BR>> damn stuff a lot lately, but being IN it, now
that's a rarer treat for me. <BR>> It was a one-and-a-half day gig, and
the facilitator, to my great delight, <BR>> was Birgitt Williams.
And the brief tale I want to tell goes like this... <BR>> <BR>>
Birgitt was doing her thing at the start, opening the space, and she came to
<BR>> the part about the Law of ? what? I expected her to say "Law
of Mobility", <BR>> but she said "Law of Two Feet", turning as she said
it, to give me this big, <BR>> semi-conspiratorial smile. I winked
back in acknowledgement. There was no <BR>> one in the room of
about 80 or so who was using a wheelchair, no one to be <BR>> offended by
the absence of reference to the "otherwise abled" etc.. Birgitt
<BR>> went on to explain how the Law works, etc. and as she then turned
her <BR>> attention to the next aspect of things, the woman next to me, a
stranger, <BR>> whispered to me, "I guess it's too bad for
amputees." She was making a tiny <BR>> joke at the expense of open
space, no harm done. But I was surprised that <BR>> someone had
chosen to comment on the issue. <BR>> <BR>> I guess people notice what
you say. <BR>> <BR>> Best bit in the opening was Birgitt's explanation
of the obverse side of <BR>> "When it's over, it's over." She said
that if your formal time period is <BR>> coming to an end, and you find
you're only about five minutes away from <BR>> producing world peace,
please DON'T STOP. <BR>> <BR>> (I suppose we all handle these opening
chores a little differently, and I <BR>> find lately I digress from my
"script" more and more and treat the time as a <BR>> bit of
open-space-within-structure. I say different things; I move <BR>>
differently... I have this notion that the whole opening can be done
solely <BR>> and completely with gestures. Thought I might try that
sometime, although I <BR>> don't know why. Sure would be a switch
for a guy who loves the sound of his <BR>> own voice.) <BR>> <BR>>
Birgitt was absolutely on top of her game, of course. She can open
space <BR>> around me any time, any where she wants. <BR>> <BR>> --
<BR>> Ralph Copleman <BR>> <A
href="http://www.earthdreams.net">http://www.earthdreams.net</A> <BR>>
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