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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Chris Corrigan
[mailto:chris@chriscorrigan.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 5 October 2006
3:24 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: Craig--Open Space
Poem</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>There once was a woman
called Birch<br>
Who was invited to work with a church<br>
She knew all the rules, <br>
And could use all the tools<br>
And finally chose Future Search.<br>
<br>
She did well but felt that the place<br>
Might use a little more grace <br>
So she threw out the rules<br>
And sat and retooled<br>
And finally just opened some space;.<br>
<br>
Chris<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmailquote><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 10/4/06, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Harrison
Owen</span></b> <<a href="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net"> hhowen@verizon.net</a>>
wrote:</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Craig -- Love the poem. And I find the serendipitous ridiculousness of <br>
writing poems about a "meeting methodology" particularly appealing.
Maybe<br>
somebody has done it, but I have yet to see an "Ode to Real Time Strategic<br>
Change," A Sonnet in honor of Appreciative Inquiry, or blank verse
charting <br>
a Future Search. But then again it may not be about a "meeting
methodology?"<br>
<br>
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From: OSLIST [mailto:<a href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a>]
On Behalf Of Craig<br>
Gilliam<br>
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:16 AM <br>
To: <a href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a><br>
Subject: Craig--Open Space Poem<br>
<br>
Below is a poem I offer that emerged from my experiences of Open Space.<br>
This is the world it creates for me and in me. I hope you enjoy the
sense <br>
and nonsense of it. Thanks, Craig<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
A Poem of Open Space<br>
Craig
Gilliam<br>
10/3/06 <br>
<br>
<br>
The dance of nonsense,<br>
in and out of time,<br>
the
swirling mass matters,<br>
the
deep rhythms,<br>
no
one knows, but all know, unspoken, <br>
rising
waters, sinking tides,<br>
the
Spirit moving<br>
over the deep,<br>
order
from <br>
chaos,<br>
<br>
chaos from order,<br>
<br>
silence,<br>
out<br>
of the whirlwind,<br>
out
of the fragments of <br>
disconnects,<br>
a
subtle voice emerges,<br>
whispers,<br>
shouts,<br>
a
new song,<br>
a new order,<br>
new
connections,<br>
playing
with and through us;<br>
Is
it all for naught,<br>
or is it naught that opens the
way?<br>
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