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<DIV><FONT face=Garamond color=#800080 size=4>Peggy, this is SO beautiful and
especially in view of the fact that I just finished watching a home video of a
man who passed last October whom I knew well. One of his habits was to sit
where squirrels were and be so still that they would eventually crawl all over
him (I witnessed this). Just before his death, he went on a vision quest
with the Blackfoot Indians. At his funeral, in the very front of the
altar, was a big picture of his ultimate accomplishment. Standing so still
with his hand outreached that a dove had landed in his hand. And so, too,
the butterflies who hover around us waiting for the outreached
hand.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Garamond color=#800080 size=4>Blessings,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Garamond color=#800080 size=4>Toni Sar'h</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=peggy@opencirclecompany.com
href="mailto:peggy@opencirclecompany.com">Peggy Holman</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 08, 2002 1:11
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Butterflies</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This weekend was the quarterly gathering of
Spirited Work, an open space learning community that meets 4 times a year
using an archetype from Angeles Arrien's Four Fold Way as the focus for each
season. (This was the season of the visionary.)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>While there I uncovered an aspect of
butterflies that was new to me and want to reflect on with you.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>First, a little background. The way I have
always seen butterflies relates to the description of predicting weather
patterns, that is, a butterfly flapping its wings in one part of the world
creates storms in another. In other words, small actions can have large
consequences. In OS terms, a conversation in the hallway with someone
who doesn't seem to be in breakout sessions very often can lead to great
insights. Those insights are taken into the breakout rooms by the people
the butterflies touch and spread, having broad impact. I still believe
this to be the case. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The additional perspective on butterflies comes
from several conversations that took place with people, who for reasons of
race or temperment see themselves as outsiders. These were folks
who didn't post in the marketplace either because they didn't yet feel safe
(e.g., what if my views are so foreign that I get rejected or my ideas
are rejected?) or they couldn't yet formulate what they were trying to say
well enough to post it (e.g., I have this uncomfortable feeling but don't
quite know how to express it.) In these cases, the butterflies found a
person or people who spent time with them, listening, talking. In
neither case did it lead to a posting in the marketplace. In both
cases their experiences are now in the field and since Spirited Work has the
luxury of continued gatherings, my hope is that at some point the perspectives
they bring will move from the margins into the consciousness of the
whole. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Because OS has always felt so welcoming to me,
it was hard for me to understand the very different experience these
folks had. I see these butterflies as beautiful and wary of their
surroundings. What they bring are gifts of increased awareness of who we
are collectively that by being still enough to invite one to land nearby I can
touch.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Peggy</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>_______________________________<BR>Peggy
Holman<BR>The Open Circle Company<BR>15347 SE 49th Place<BR>Bellevue, WA
98006<BR>425.746.6274<BR><A
href="http://www.opencirclecompany.com">www.opencirclecompany.com</A></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>