<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Ralph,<div><br></div><div>The last thing my girlfriend Matilda and and I saw at Wosonos in SF straight after the closing circle was a Beautiful hummingbird doing it's nectar thing.. (She had never seen one before) and squirrels.. well don't start her on squirrel activity!!</div><div><br></div><div>Phelimx<br><div><div>On 31 Jul 2008, at 09:21, Ralph Copleman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><i>On groundhogs and fireflies...</i></div><div><br></div><div>My wife and I once spent a delightful afternoon in the San Francisco zoo. Clearly their animal collection is incomplete.</div><div><br></div><div>And I once passed an entire OT symposium as a self-described butterfly, sitting in the hotel lobby with my laptop working on a poem that I eventually shared during the closing circle. During all those butterfly hours, all sorts of people fluttered by for short visits, some of them more than two or three times, and I found that people I had known for years at these annual OS events -- well I didn't really know them at all, and at least one life-long friendship then developed. That week I came to deeply respect the concept of butterfly-ness, something I hadn't really taken seriously until then.</div><div><br></div><div>In New York City, at an OS event I once facilitated, a participant came up to me and said I needed to add another insect metaphor. Butterflies and bumblebees were too soft. New Yorkers love their sharp, colorful, rough-and-tumble, take-no-prisoners, style of dialogue, and many in that often quirky big city relish sarcasm. This woman suggested I add hornets to the lexicon, because they have more sting. I haven't, but I remembered the idea. And personally, the more I think of it, the more I want to try out the groundhog thing. Or the firefly. Perhaps a cricket, or a hummingbird, or a flying squirrel...</div><div><br></div><div>I wish I'd been there with you.</div><div><br></div><div>Ralph</div><div><br></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Ralph Copleman</div><div>44 Titus Avenue</div><div>Lawrence Township, NJ 08648</div><div>H: 609-896-9714</div><div>C: 609-865-3466</div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div>* * ========================================================== OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu: <a href="http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html">http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html</a> To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: <a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist">http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist</a></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>*
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