<div>Hi Ralph and Matilda</div>
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<div>My wife Carmen has a 'thing' about humming birds too. She will go into absolute ecstacy when I relate my seeing of their doing at the Presidio ...</div>
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<div>With love</div>
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<div>Alan</div>
<div><a href="http://www.multimindsolutions.com">www.multimindsolutions.com</a><br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/31/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Phelim McDermott</b> <<a href="mailto:phelim@mac.com">phelim@mac.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word">Hi Ralph,
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<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>
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<div>Phelimx
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<div>On 31 Jul 2008, at 09:21, Ralph Copleman wrote:</div><br>
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<div><i>On groundhogs and fireflies...</i></div>
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<div>My wife and I once spent a delightful afternoon in the San Francisco zoo. Clearly their animal collection is incomplete.</div>
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<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>
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<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>
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<div>I wish I'd been there with you.</div>
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<div>Ralph</div>
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