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size=3>G’day All</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
size=3>Seeing as the decision to go to Goa for the 12<SUP>th</SUP> OSonOS is
likely to be confirmed at the great assembly in Bramstrup next month
you may wish to know how this wondrous gift emerged. At least this is my recall
of how it happened. </FONT></P>
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face="Comic Sans MS"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS">The germ of the idea arose in a conversation between Janet
Pinto and me just before dinner one night during OSonOSinOZ (10<SUP>th</SUP>) at
Marysville. In this, our first encounter, I asked Janet how long she had been
associated with OST. And when she replied ‘Since the 1980s’ I enquired ‘Were you
in Goa when Harrison and Anne Stadler first went there?'<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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face="Comic Sans MS"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
size=3>Janet responded ‘No, it was a couple of years later, but now that I think
about it, it seems to me that there is a great opportunity to have another
gathering there.’ </FONT></P>
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face="Comic Sans MS"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
size=3>In the next day or two Janet reportedly spoke to others about the idea
and an ‘in principle’ agreement to proceed was expressed in the closing circle.
As she subsequently noted in her lovely joint invitation with Malay Biswas on
our list (10 July, 2003): </FONT></P>
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face="Comic Sans MS"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
size=3>“Malay and I have been reliving a moment at the OSonOSinOZ when we stood
in a Circle with Harrison and Peggy and knew in our hearts that the 12th OSonOS
the event would come full circle in Goa in 2004. And we said ‘Yes’”. </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS">Janet has related that '<SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">what was also coincidental was that I am a
native of Goa, and Malay belongs to the Taj Group of Hotels that originally
hosted the Open Space event, those many years ago! Like we say -- it all
seems to be coming full Circle!'</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">How’s
that for a nice example of what emerges from conversing, of what can happen when
people come together to treat each other well?
<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
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style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">With
love<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS">Alan<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
size=3>Adelaide</FONT></SPAN></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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