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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Eleder – Lovely! And just for your information (at least as far as my life experience goes), Letting Go is not an option – for the very simple reason that you never had “it” under control in the first place. There may have been some degree of illusion, perhaps delusion – but the fact of the matter is that the world is too complex, interconnected, and fast moving to even “think it”, let alone “manage the process.” So letting go of what we never had should be a “no brainer.” And definitely not an “option.” Or something…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Harrison<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Harrison Owen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>7808 River Falls Dr.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Potomac, MD 20854<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Camden, Maine 20854<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Phone 301-365-2093<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>(summer) 207-763-3261<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>www.openspaceworld.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>www.ho-image.com (Personal Website)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D'>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org"><span style='color:blue'>http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>ELEDER AURTENETXE PILDAIN<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, July 09, 2011 11:44 AM<br><b>To:</b> World wide Open Space Technology email list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSList] A Quote<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>so true, Bhav, thanks for this insightful spark!<br>I come from a month full of OS events (a first 2'5 days on the future of education; a 1'5 hours succesful experiment; and an underground experience in a quite closed work environment among them) and I realize that sometimes it is quite difficult for me to let go. On the other hand, I wonder: is it possible to let go too much? The story, very briefly: it happened in this 2'5 days open space on the future of education (closed last Wednesday). I spent 4 days in San Sebastian, met a very special person and I found life opening space profoundly out of the OS event. Less sleep, more vulnerable, some doubts whether I was letting go too much,... Reading Donella's quote makes me believe that definetely not. <br>Thanks so much, Bhav!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#006600;background:#CCCCCC'>Eleder</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:#CCCCCC'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:#CCCCCC'>B</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#CC0000;background:#CCCCCC'>u</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:#CCCCCC'>M</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background:#CCCCCC'>31 </span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000099;background:#CCCCCC'>Mind Mapping-</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#009900;background:#CCCCCC'>Open Space Technology</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:#CCCCCC'>-</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#B45F06;background:#CCCCCC'>Creativity</span></b><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='margin-left:30.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#CCCCCC'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a href="http://www.burumapak.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#CC0000'>www.burumapak.blogspot.com</span></a> (eus) <a href="http://twitter.com/Eleder_BuM" target="_blank">@Eleder_BuM</a> (Twitter)<br><a href="http://www.in-fluyendo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#CC0000'>www.in-fluyendo.blogspot.com</span></a> (esp) <a href="http://www.flowandshow.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#CC0000'>www.flowandshow.blogspot.com</span></a> (eng)</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br>pd: the event was great and the holi-afternoons brought among other a great gift. I tried and learned first time in my life jumping and diving into the sea arms-and-head-first, from a three meter height :-)! Sure, fruit of having let go<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>