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<P>Dear Julie.</P>
<P>When I read your mail I felt touched and have the need to share my caring for you and the other great people you talk about. I know all too well my self, the very feelings you have experienced. I know ,how people who work like all of you get undernutured. ( if thats an english word ) Here is how I get into it. </P>
<P>I get hold of friends, colleges who can support me in changing these feelings. Once I have changed those feelings, once I am nutured myself, can go back to the other perople and hear their needs to being appriciated. From your words, I sense, that most of the people there need to hear appriciation from each other. I am sure you know ways of organazing that. I do hope that these words give you inspiration to go about it in you own way.</P>
<P>Love Inge from Denmark</P></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>>From: Julie Smith <jsmith@MOSQUITONET.COM>
<DIV></DIV>>Reply-To: OSLIST <OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
<DIV></DIV>>To: OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
<DIV></DIV>>Subject: Re: Opening Space for a Closing World
<DIV></DIV>>Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 00:13:35 -0800
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Okay, Harrison. I'll take you up on this one. You said:
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>"So I thought to myself, thought I, how to open some more space -
<DIV></DIV>>anywhere,
<DIV></DIV>>anyhow, with anyone???? Doing an OS is cool, but surely that represents
<DIV></DIV>>but
<DIV></DIV>>a tiny fraction of the opportunities available. So come on Folks
<DIV></DIV>>(Lurkers
<DIV></DIV>>included) how do we open up some more space? And how are we doing right
<DIV></DIV>>now.
<DIV></DIV>>Perhaps if we shared we cold give each other some really good ideas."
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>I could use some good ideas about now.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>I reported some time ago that I'm now the "executive director" (please,
<DIV></DIV>>anyone, give me a better word to describe what I do!) of our local
<DIV></DIV>>Montessori preschool. I love the Montessori philosophy, and the
<DIV></DIV>>children are blossoming in beautiful, amazing ways. Goodness abounds.
<DIV></DIV>>Trouble is, in spite of many, many wonderful staff and parents, we
<DIV></DIV>>suffer from a lack of cohesion and community between staff, between
<DIV></DIV>>parents, and between staff and parents. Truth is, I often come home
<DIV></DIV>>feeling frayed, frustrated, misunderstood and unappreciated. (Good
<DIV></DIV>>grief! Is that me talking? How did I get here????)
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>There you have it. I could tell you a longer version, but I doubt the
<DIV></DIV>>telling would add anything significant (and it might resemble whining).
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>And here is my question (remembering now from a brief encounter with the
<DIV></DIV>>I Ching that the framing of the question is as revealing as the
<DIV></DIV>>receiving of the answer)(now feeling even greater pressure to get it
<DIV></DIV>>right): How do I help this community I love make the journey from where
<DIV></DIV>>we are now to a place of mutual understanding, regard, and purpose? How
<DIV></DIV>>do we tap our enormous reservoir of intelligence, love, and intention
<DIV></DIV>>for the greater good of us all? How do we, as a community, engage in
<DIV></DIV>>that energizing, invigorating, inspiring dance on the spiral of
<DIV></DIV>>expanding consciousness?
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>I release my questions to you, the universe. I look forward with great
<DIV></DIV>>anticipation to all that comes back to me.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>(And now I laugh, remembering another time I forgot the answers I
<DIV></DIV>>already knew, and Chris C. sharing a poem that told that old story most
<DIV></DIV>>beautifully. Sometimes I wonder whether we forget not only for
<DIV></DIV>>ourselves, but perhaps for others as well. And so I am willing to reveal
<DIV></DIV>>my forgetting again.)
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>(And I heard Harrison's question in my soul, asking me to answer. So at
<DIV></DIV>>the same time that I ask the universe for answers, I am the universe
<DIV></DIV>>answering.)
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>(It's great to be writing here again. Nothing like it, anywhere, for
<DIV></DIV>>me.)
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Much love ~~~
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Julie
<DIV></DIV>>
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