Wow...what a cool collection that was.<br><br>Congrats Jeff...and thank you Karen for hosting another beautiful offering.<br><br>Chris<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/3/17 Karen Sella <<a href="mailto:karen@luminacoaching.com">karen@luminacoaching.com</a>>:<br>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Greetings All,</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">First, a poem offering in gratitude:</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">Being a Person</span></font></b></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><i><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;">Be a person here.
Stand by the river; invoke</span></font></i></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><i><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;">the owls. Invoke
winter; then spring.</span></font></i></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><i><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;">Let any season
that wants to come here to make its own</span></font></i></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><i><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;">call. After that
sound goes away, wait.</span></font></i></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><i><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;"> </span></font></i></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><i><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;">A slow bubble
rises through the earth</span></font></i></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><i><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;">and begins to
include sky, stars, all space,</span></font></i></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><i><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;">even the
outracing, expanding thought.</span></font></i></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><i><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;">Come back and hear
the little sound again.</span></font></i></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><i><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;"> </span></font></i></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><i><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;">Suddenly this
dream you are having matches</span></font></i></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><i><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;">everyone's
dream, and the result is the world.</span></font></i></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><i><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;">If a different
call came there wouldn't be any</span></font></i></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><i><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;">world, or you, or
the river; or the owls calling.</span></font></i></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><i><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;"> </span></font></i></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><i><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;">How you stand here
is important. How you</span></font></i></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><i><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;">listen for the next
things to happen. How you breathe.</span></font></i></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">~ William Stafford</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">And now, it is my great honor to announce our new Poet
Laureate.</span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Mr. </span></font><b><font color="#006666" face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 102, 102); font-weight: bold;">Jeff Aitken</span></font></b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> is the author of poem <font color="#006666"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 102);">#4</span></font> and the new Poet
Laureate of our OSLIST community</span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial;">. </span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Jeff</span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">will hold this title for the next
six months or so, holding space for poetry on the list by inviting, noticing,
inspiring, offering poetry…as he is inspired. And at the end of
that six months or so he will host another restricted form poetry contest
…and so the tradition continues.</span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">We pass the leafy crown to you, Mr. Aitken, with the deepest
of bows.</span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Here again
are the amazing poems inspired by the inner Open Space with their authors
revealed. Thank you to all the muses…</span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><b><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;">#1 <font color="black"><span style="color: black;"> </span></font></span></font></b></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">ODE TO MY BREATH</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">HOURS SLIP BY</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">DAYS RUN OFF</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">YEARS PILE UP</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">GOOD TIMES</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">SAD TIMES</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">MEMORABLE MOMENTS</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">GLIMPSES OF BLISS</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">ALL COME AND GO</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">IN THEIR OWN RHYTHM</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU"> WHAT WILL BE NEXT?</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">YES, I KNOW WHAT'S NEXT</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">WITH UNFAILING SURETY</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">IT IS MY BREATH</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">HERE IT COMES</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">IN,HOLD, THEN OUT</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">LET GO</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">MAKE IT DEEP</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">EMBRACE OT FULLY</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">THEN LET IT FLY</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">SOON THE CYCLE BEGINS AGAIN</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">NEVER CEASING, ON AND ON</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">UNTILL THE END OF MY TIME IN
THIS SWIRLING UNIVERSE</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">~ Trudie Richman</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;">#2</span></font></b></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">the duck floats by</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">nonchalantly</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">oblivious to breaking the
ripples in the water quack!</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">~ </span></font><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">Raffi
Aftandelian</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">#3</span></font></b></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">NO POEM</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">NO POEM TODAY</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">NOT MUCH TO SAY</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">THOUGHTS COME AND GO</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">IMAGES DRIFT FAST AND SLOW</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">SADNESS CREEPS IN</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">WORRIES LOOP AND SPIN</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">TRY TO GET BACK TO HERE AND
NOW</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">LET THIS MOMENT SHOW ME HOW</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">WASH AWAY FEARS AND PAIN</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">CONFIDENCE COME UP AGAIN</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">NOW I SEE A BUTTERFLY</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">SPREADING WINGS, CIRCLING HIGH</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">COURAGE SPREADS THROUGH ME
LIKE LIGHT</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial CYR" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="RU">COME STAY WITH ME ALL DAY AND
NIGHT</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">~ Trudie Richman</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><b><font color="#006666" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 102, 102); font-weight: bold;">#4</span></font></b></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="#006666" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 102, 102);">When my father
died I grieved all year. </span></font></p>
<p><font color="#006666" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 102, 102);">But Michael
Stipe was right that sweetness follows.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="#006666" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 102, 102);"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="#006666" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 102, 102);">When it's
over,</span></font></p>
<p><font color="#006666" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 102, 102);">A cloud of
feeling lingers, calls up memories, shows me the world with eyes more raw, more
open to this stark, leafless maple growing in the sidewalk.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="#006666" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 102, 102);">And shows me
to the work that's next to do.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="#006666" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 102, 102);"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="#006666" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 102, 102);">When it's
over,</span></font></p>
<p><font color="#006666" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 102, 102);">We might start
that lovely, awkward dance of hugs, and wait our turn to hug Ralph, and Chris,
Karen, Joelle, and Lisa, everyone who won and wrote and read, and lay a wreath
for Laurel on
the earth.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="#006666" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 102, 102);"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="#006666" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 102, 102);">When it's
over,</span></font></p>
<p><font color="#006666" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 102, 102);">we might stand
in Harrison's circle with hands joined and
faces outward, hearts burst open to the horizon and the mystery of walking
toward it, alone and together, finding spaces snapping open like poppies.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="#006666" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 102, 102);"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="#006666" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 102, 102);">~ Jeff Aitken</span></font></p>
<p><font color="#006666" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 102, 102);"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><b><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;">#5</span></font></b></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Can we live in a larger world</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Than ever we have before?</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The world that we can think about</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Is puny by comparison</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">To what can happen if we let it</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Thinking opens doors to only ordinary things</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Bumping's the trick of the nothing in between </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Where living lives & giving gives</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">& Everything in nothing is</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">What grows a larger living world</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">~ Doug Germann</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><b><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold;">#6</span></font></b></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Open space is not empty</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Instead fertile fecund bumpy</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Inviting</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We go to it not empty but overflowing</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Seeking to give without control</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Willing to receive without expecting</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Expecting limits us & we are without limits</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">To live in open space is to</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Invite</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">—</span></font><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">help</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">—</span></font><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">engagement</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">—</span></font><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">meeting</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Be invited</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">—</span></font><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">to
help</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">—</span></font><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">to
leave</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Be inviting</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Help before you're invited</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Let invitations come and go</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">& not count the difference</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Live it before you know it</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Live it to know it</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Open space gently takes your hand</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Splash some on your face and body</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Listen</span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">—</span></font><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">give
voice</span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">—</span></font><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">listen</span></font><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">—</span></font><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">live</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">~ Doug Germann</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">#7</span></font></b></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I am a dreamer</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">My dreams start a journey</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">A road sparked by Spirit</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Spirit is the fuel that propels me</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Without it there is no forward motion</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">No hope of betterment</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Space is the place dreams are born</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">It is not sleep that produces them</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">It is the open and clear field of possibility</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">When I am in Open Space</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Spirit is always present</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Here the dream begins and so does my travel I travel
in good company </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Keep your Spirit</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I am dreaming with you</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">~ </span></font><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Elwin
Guild</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">#8</span></font></b></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Palatino" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino;">
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">breathing</span></b></span></font></p>
<p><b><font face="Palatino" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino; font-weight: bold;">
connecting
opening</span></font></b></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><b><font face="Palatino" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino; font-weight: bold;">
breathing
breathing</span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font face="Palatino" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino; font-weight: bold;">
</span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font face="Palatino" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino; font-weight: bold;">
witnessing
inviting</span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font face="Palatino" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino; font-weight: bold;">
</span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font face="Palatino" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino; font-weight: bold;">
breathing
breathing</span></font></b></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><b><font face="Palatino" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino; font-weight: bold;">
letting
go
co-creating</span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font face="Palatino" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino; font-weight: bold;">
</span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font face="Palatino" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino; font-weight: bold;">
breathing
breathing</span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font face="Palatino" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino; font-weight: bold;">
</span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font face="Palatino" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino; font-weight: bold;">
naming
emerging</span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font face="Palatino" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino; font-weight: bold;">
breathing</span></font></b></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">~ Lisa Heft</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Appreciatively,</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Karen</span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="#409f9d" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(64, 159, 157);">Karen Sella </span></font></p>
<p><font color="#409f9d" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(64, 159, 157);">Coaching: </span></font><font color="#408080" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(64, 128, 128);"><a href="http://www.luminacoaching.com" target="_blank">www.luminacoaching.com</a></span></font></p>
<p><font color="#409f9d" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(64, 159, 157);">Consulting: </span></font><font color="#408080" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(64, 128, 128);"><a href="http://www.integralventures.com" target="_blank">www.integralventures.com</a></span></font></p>
<p><font color="#409f9d" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(64, 159, 157);">Blog: </span></font><font color="#408080" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(64, 128, 128);"><a href="http://www.lumina.typepad.com" target="_blank">www.lumina.typepad.com</a></span></font></p>
<p><font color="#409f9d" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(64, 159, 157);">Phone: 1.206.780.2998</span></font></p>
<p><font color="#409f9d" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(64, 159, 157);">Skype: karensella</span></font></p>
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