<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Karolina:</div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Karolina Iwa <karolina.iwa@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Mon, May 17, 2010 5:46:05 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [OSLIST] WOSONOS - feeling of a missed opportunity.<br></font><br><div><div>(...)</div><div><br></div><div>i had this visualisation of us standing in a circle, shoulder to shoulder, facing inside,</div>
<div>feeling the power, the confusion, the energy, the movement. focused on the centre and its content.</div><div>maybe feeling / sensing the world outside, but neither relating to it a lot nor taking common actions in its direction.</div>
<div>there were so many people, so much energy and emotions</div>
<div>and i guess i just miss us turning our backs to the centre of the circle,</div><div>turning our faces and fronts to the world outside,</div><div>feeling the energy behind our backs </div><div>and with it feeling empowered to take common action and send a message to the world,</div>
<div>use the resources we have and see how we can use what we are blessed to be experiencing and having.</div><div>(...)</div><div>------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 191); ">Karolina</span></div></div></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">I think that all the last day was badly planned just from the start. Beginning with the "personal reflexions" to share with the person seated next to us (half an hour lost with something that is not - as far as I know - OST, and it is one more thing </font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">not</font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"> to do), continuing with more than 20 Action
Plans that in some cases were only done by one person, and to the fact that there was</font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"> no provision of time for talking about where the next WOSonOS would take place</font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">, ending with the fact that most people were hungry and leaved to eat something before the closing circle and quite a few did not return, and the staff was removing things interrupting the circle, and some people had to leave early, and a lot of others were standing outside, it happens that </font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">at the end there was no circle at all</font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">. </font></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times,
serif;font-size:12pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">I do not know if "turning out" was planned or not, but, anyhow, in these conditions, it would not work at all.</font></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">But I am glad that you and many of us have been able to "turn the circle out" in the plane back home. Even with some disturbances, it always works!</font></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Regards</font></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new
york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Artur</font></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br></div></div><div style="position:fixed"></div>
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