<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89">Diane,</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89">Thank you for sharing Max's poem and your own story of opening space. I am reading this at the end of the second day of an inner leadership retreat I'm co-facilitating. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89">Please tell Max that I will share his beautiful words in the circle tomorrow because many of the participants are experiencing the profound polarities of their own grief. Max seems to get that along with his understanding of how complicated his mom was. We began today with grief work. The participants decided to add "forgiveness" to Elizabeth Kübler-Ross's grief cycle. Max seems to get that too.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89">Christy, I read "One Heart" to the facilitators last night. Thank you, Dear Heart.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89">Michael, thank you for "Fire". It has helped me talk to my family about my experience of Source.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89">With appreciation, feeling our oneness,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89">Christine</font><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; 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><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0); font-family: Webdings; font-size: 32px; "><b><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: Arial; color: green; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; "><span><span><span><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 128, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; 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; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Christine Whitney Sanchez</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89"><i>Collaborative Wisdom & Strategy</i><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">480.759.0262 </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89"><a href="http://www.christinewhitneysanchez.com">www.christinewhitneysanchez.com</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0); font-family: Webdings; font-size: 32px; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Webdings; color: green; "></span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89">Skype: christinewhitneysanchez</font></div></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Webdings; font-size: 32px; font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Webdings; color: green; ">P</span><b><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: green; "> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: Arial; color: green; ">Please consider the environment before printing this email</span></b></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#260E89"><b></b></font></span></div><br><div><div>On May 1, 2009, at 6:50 AM, Diane Cline wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> OS friends,<br> You have no idea how important it has been for me to read these poems and feel the calling of Open Space at a time like this. Harrison Owen met with me in January 2008 when I was transitioning out of my tight narrow secretive job as an intelligence officer and resigned to become a graphic recorder and go back to teaching Classics (Greek and Roman stuff). <br> We buried my sister-in-law on Monday April 27 (Google "Sausalito homicide" for details - huge story in Marin). <br> Her son, Max, 12, has been living with us for two years now. Below is the poem he read (choked out) at the service which he wrote the morning after I told him the news last Sunday (April 19). She was a complicated person, and he got that. The funeral was a short 30 minute Jewish service at the cemetery. <br> Creating Open Space: I took on the responsibility of organizing the funeral, buying the plot, arranging for her body to come to Maryland from Petaluma, etc. But on Sunday before the Monday service the Rabbi came to firm up the order of the service pick the psalms and readings and I put the two brothers "in charge", the two brothers being my husband and his 9 years younger brother, who loved and fought with their sister. I gardened. <br> The Rabbi comes over, sits down, and 3 hours later is still listening to their stories. Marathon pastoral counseling session for the two brothers. Finally they close the open space, he leaves, the little brother leaves, and I ask my husband, "so, how was it"? and my husband says to me, "It was wonderful, but I still don't get why the Rabbi needed so much information about her when it is only a 30 minute service?"<br> Sigh...........................................<br> <br> Mom <br> By Max Clary <br> <br> I remember your touch, <br> like the sun right after winter, <br> I remember your face, <br> wrinkled, <br> like a warn out road, <br> I remember your voice, <br> soft like a spring breeze, <br> but scratchy, <br> like a branch against a window, <br> I remember your love, <br> like a blanket wrapped, <br> around a new born, <br> I remember your hair, <br> golden, <br> like a butterflies wings, <br> curly, <br> like ribbons, <br> i remember your hands, <br> soft like and angel wing, <br> but bony like bark, <br> I remember your jewelry, <br> colorful like a meadow of wild flowers. <br> <span class="moz-txt-tag">-- </span><br> Christy Lee-Engel wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:38e8612b0904302137p923f074r278d5287f650cf35@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Hi Michael,</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> <br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">That is indeed a lovely poem, attending to the open "spaces in between"</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> <br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Today was "Put a Poem in Your Pocket Day" here and the poem I carried around to read to people also puts me somehow in mind of open space:</span><br> <br> <div align="center"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">One Heart</font></div> <div> </div> <div align="center"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">Look at the birds. Even flying<br> is born</font></div> <div> </div> <div align="center"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">out of nothing. The first sky<br> is inside you, friend, open</font></div> <div> </div> <div align="center"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">at either end of day.<br> The work of wings</font></div> <div> </div> <div align="center"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">was always freedom, fastening<br> one heart to every falling thing. </font></div> <div align="center"> <font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><br> ~ Li-Young Lee ~</font></div> <br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Christy</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> <br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" clear="all"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Christy Lee-Engel, ND, LAc</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">206.399.0868</span><br> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://oneskywellness.com/" target="_blank">http://oneskywellness.com</a><br> <br> <br> <br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Michael Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:mjwood@admin.uwa.edu.au" target="_blank">mjwood@admin.uwa.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div link="blue" vlink="blue" lang="EN-AU"> <div><p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Check out this lovely poem by Judy Brown, called “Fire”</span></font></p><div><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.judysorumbrown.com/resources/poems.html" target="_blank">http://www.judysorumbrown.com/resources/poems.html</a></span></font></p><div><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Michael Wood</span></font></p> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> <br> * * ========================================================== <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a> ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu:">oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu:</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html">http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html</a> To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist">http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist</a> </blockquote> <br> <br> <div class="moz-signature">-- <br> <img src="cid:part1.02020508.01000704@othconsulting.com" border="0"></div> </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></div><br></div></body></html>*
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