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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi All!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>THANK you for you wise ideas, as for me, I've just
read one by one two books which I brough with me from US - Synchronicity -
recomended by Birgitt, and Servant, presented me by a Rotarian friend, bouth
though on different levels promote the idea of leader-servant, though the
Synchronicity propose also to start doing something while... being... so I'm in
a real deep thouhgt, as one of the ideas is just to stay... in being, waiting
for the flow... </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>is it a good thing to do right now - waiting? and
how long to wait? and for what?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>also it sounds as oxumoron for me: leader-servant,
and it is not what our leaders want to hear, so how could we work on
it?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>sorry, if I'm in dissonance...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>meanwhile I'm woring on a workshop with the
community. is will be a sort of try to gather people on a whole system in a room
forum on a topic "A Town in a 2008"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>as we have a sort of a decade of vacations starting
May,1st, we decided to do it on the next week between 14-16 th, so hope it will
work. otherwise it is really difficult to think what our big guys at the head of
countries could do next...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>best wishes</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>elena</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
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<A title=owenhh@MINDSPRING.COM href="mailto:owenhh@MINDSPRING.COM">Harrison
Owen</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 25, 2003 4:36
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Testing</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>At 06:44 PM 4/24/2003 +0200, Eva P Svensson wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">So quiet - just have to test that
I'm still connected to you all!</BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>The silence is in fact
deafening. And particularly noticeable for this group. When silences come I
find the reasons are usually three: a) Nothing to say. b) Nothing need be
said. c) What could, or should, be said takes people to a place they don't
want to go. I vote for c)<BR><BR>The events of the past month are, indeed, a
little overwhelming. The US invades Iraq, SARS breaks out. And now North Korea
threatens to do a nuclear demonstration -- whatever that might mean.
Sufficient to take your breath away. Forget about talking. And the prospects
for the immediate future are hardly encouraging. Speaking just for myself, I
can say that at such times, space becomes claustrophobically small. And my
daily activities verge on the irrelevant. Silence. Very quiet.<BR><BR>It is
quite possible that we are really in the midst of very, very, deep doo-doo,
from which there is no easy or obvious escape. Under the circumstances it is
always nice to have somebody to beat on and blame. George the Shrub comes
immediately to mind. But regardless of what he did do that he shouldn't have
-- or didn't do and should have, the situation is probably well beyond him.
From where I sit, he remains what he has always been -- an embarrassment. As
Birgitt might be tempted to say -- We have a lot of Dead Moose. <BR><BR>And
yet in such moments, there is the possibility of enormous learning. For
ourselves, how do we open our personal space so that in this present moment we
can be fully here -- fully alive? And for our neighbors, colleagues, clients
and friends, how can we open that communal space so breath (and meaningful
conversation) becomes a possibility? Opening this sort of space is rather
different, I think, from filling the air with trite platitudes and the power
of positive thinking. It goes to a deeper place.<BR><BR>Slightly less than a
year ago, I was privileged to work with a group of Palestinians and Israelis
in Rome. Relatively speaking, the world at that point (compared to the present
moment) seemed almost idyllic -- but for those coming from The Middle East it
appeared something other than a rose garden. And in their presence, I could
only share something of the brittle fatalism reflected in the forced smiles,
and nervous laughter with which we began our gathering. Knowing full well that
I could never be fully where they were, I nevertheless felt compelled to share
my own vulnerability -- In my opening of the circle on that first day I said
something like...<I>"<FONT face="Arial, Helvetica">I had come because I cared
for my friends in Palestine and Israel, and also for myself and my children.
And although the people in that circle may feel themselves isolated and alone
in their own private Hell with their own agonizing story, that story was also
the story of our world. Like it or not they were in the hot crucible of the
future of humankind. The future of all of us is being created in that strange
place known as the Holy Land, even as it has been for millennia. So I cared,
but I was also on the edge of despair or beyond. I could not think of any way
out. The issues were so deep and intractable that movement appeared denied.
Space was closed. But still I came, and still I cared – as I presumed was true
for each of them as well."<BR><BR></I>My learning during those days in Rome
was profound. It became startling clear that neither I, nor any single person
there, had the wisdom, courage, strength or perseverance to get us where we
needed to go. But none of us were called upon to do that -- we all were -- and
all rose to the challenge. In that rich space which contained all of our
hopes, fears, frustrations and anxieties, we collectively found a
collegiality which included and transcended them all. Needless to say,
we did not bring peace to The Middle East, but we surely experienced peace in
that moment. And that was a moment we will never forget.<BR><BR>So maybe it is
time to break our silence here on good old OSLIST -- share what we are, and
what we are learning.
<BR><BR><BR>Harrison<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></FONT><X-SIGSEP>
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