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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Cyr" size=2>Dear colleagues,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Thank you much for your supportive and thoughtful
replies (onlist and offlist) regarding my recent post on getting started in
consulting. It means so much to me when I hear and see replies written from the
heart. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>There is that part of me that forgets that life does not
simply happen in a linear fashion. Just need to keep on muddling
through.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>I also struggle with how to balance following my dream (in
many ways connected with OS) and paying the bills. Yes, there are skills I have
that can pay the bills, but that's time spent not doing OS. I know the
resolution will come, just need to trust Spirit!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>And also want to thank OSI USA for their generous
donation to cover cost of travel expenses to Goa! That was very pleasant
news.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>On a sadder note, some of you may have read the recent news
about the attack by Chechen rebels in Ingushetia several days back. To get an
idea of how we are connected to these world events:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>I get an sms text message from my close friend in Nazran:
"there's this awful shooting. people are in a panic." I called her on her
mobile, and I could hear the shots over the phone as well as explosions. One of
the people killed in the raid, the city prosecutor for Nazran (Ingushetia's
largest city), I knew personally. It's hard to believe that he is no longer with
us. About a 100 people died in that raid.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>And I do want to bring OS there as a means of figuring out how
to deal with the situation there...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Warmly and in sadness,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Raffi</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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