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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi All </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This was NOT 'test 3'! </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It's part of life's mystery why the
posting materialised again. Maybe it is important to someone who missed it
the first - and second - time??</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Perhaps Florian would have a 'musing' on
such matters :-) </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>With love</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alan</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Adelaide</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=alan.stewart@SENET.COM.AU
href="mailto:alan.stewart@SENET.COM.AU">Alan Stewart</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> Tuesday, July 22, 2003 2:56
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Origins of OSonOSinGOA - An
Invitation</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
size=3>G’day All</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 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>
<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">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>
<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 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>
<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 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>
<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 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>
<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">With love<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"> <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">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>* *
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