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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dearest Christy, a beloved poet of life,<o:p></o:p></span></b></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><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003300'>Thank you, Carol and Tova, for sharing your work and what you are learning, and for your beautiful differences which embody such deep likeness…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003300'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003300'>"a difference that embodies a likeness".</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD'>This is one name for “hope” for me.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD'>Thank you so very much for creating beauty by capturing it<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#4F81BD'>And for reminding a tipping Point in my personal life in POP gathering on Whidbey Island 2003<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Gratefully <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tova<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></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 align=right style='text-align:right'><b><span lang=HE dir=RTL style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#8064A2'>ááøëä,</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#8064A2'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><b><span lang=HE dir=RTL style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#8064A2'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><b><span lang=HE dir=RTL style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#8064A2'>èåáä<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=HE dir=RTL style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#8064A2'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#8064A2'>Tova Averbuch </span></b><span dir=RTL></span><b><span lang=HE dir=RTL style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#8064A2'><span dir=RTL></span> èåáä àåøáåê</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#8064A2'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=HE dir=RTL style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#8064A2'>éåòöú áëéøä ìôéúåç àøâåðé</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#8064A2'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="tova.averbuch@gmail.com"><span style='color:blue'>tova.averbuch@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#8064A2'>972-3-5523476<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#8064A2'>972-52-8305343<o:p></o:p></span></b></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>Christy Lee-Engel<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 09, 2011 12:53 AM<br><b>To:</b> World wide Open Space Technology email list<br><b>Cc:</b> Rabbi Ted Falcon<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSList] Crossing borders -- Coming to the circle -- Update<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003300'>I have just watched Tova's and Carol's very moving, very eloquent, spirited talks back to back (that is: side by side? face to face?) and could feel as if I were there in Jaffa. </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003300'>I think about the good luck of meeting Tova and Carol and their colleague Avner in 2003, when the three of them came with other colleagues from around the world to participate in the Practice of Peace here, to share powerful, difficult, stories about opening space in areas of conflict. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003300'>Compared to then, the work is still very challenging, with no guarantee of anything, but now it seems like the long and devoted effort of opening the space in very hard, rocky, closed-up places has contributed to liberating a lot of fertility and creativity and aliveness (1000 tables of conversation in Tel Aviv and all over Israel! Israelis and Palestinians visiting each others' homes, let alone their towns!)</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003300'>And I am struck by the fact that Tova and Carol are both so eloquent and poetic in English, which is not either of their first languages - their fluency is an embodied aspect of the theme of this TEDxJaffa, "Desire To Know the Other" - the willingness to do the work necessary to speak the language of another embodies the desire to know the other. Last week, Seattle Arts and Lectures presented an evening with three translators of poetry. One of them, Peter Cole, is an American who translates Arabic and Hebrew poetry into English, and he said that a good translation of a poem, which can seem impossible, is "a difference that embodies a likeness".</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003300'>Thank you, Carol and Tova, for sharing your work and what you are learning, and for your beautiful differences which embody such deep likeness, openness, willingness, and love.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003300'>Christy</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003300'><br clear=all></span><span style='color:#003300'>Christy Lee-Engel, ND, LAc<br><i>Please visit my new private practice location, <a href="http://corechiropracticseattle.com" target="_blank">Core Chiropractic and Wellness</a></i></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003300'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#003300'>Director, Bastyr University <a href="http://cssm.bastyr.edu" target="_blank">Center for Spirituality, Science, and Medicine</a></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003300'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#003300'>My cache of <a href="http://lifecultivatinglife.posterous.com" target="_blank">inspirations and reflections</a></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003300'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#003300'>206.399.0868</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003300'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><div><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003300'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#993399'>Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin</span><span style='color:#993399'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 5:20 AM, Harrison Owen <<a href="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net">hhowen@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Turns out I was right – Carol was speaking at the same conference with Tova. It also turns out, Tova tells me, that Carol had been asked to organize the conference and invited Tova. Wheels within wheels – or something. If you haven’t listened to Carol’s talk, I urge you to do so. There is absolutely no mention of Open Space Technology – but her language is familiar, and straight from the Open Space experience that I know she has had. For me this is wonderful – and if nothing else – a demonstration of the 5<sup>th</sup> Principle at work. “Wherever it happens is the right place.” Over the last 10 years Carol has been opening space all over the Middle East, sometimes in the form that we would all recognize as OST, and doubtless more times where that is not the case, but space was opened for different and differing people. They were invited to come to the circle if they cared to come -- no questions asked. Those aren’t quite Carol’s words, but close and I love them.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Many years ago, somebody asked me what my vision for OST might be. I said I hoped it might just disappear as a special thing because it had become such a part of our lives that it needed no special name. It was just what we did. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Harrison</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Harrison Owen</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>7808 River Falls Dr.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Potomac, MD 20854</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>USA</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Camden, Maine 20854</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Phone <a href="tel:301-365-2093" target="_blank">301-365-2093</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>(summer) <a href="tel:207-763-3261" target="_blank">207-763-3261</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.openspaceworld.com" target="_blank">www.openspaceworld.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.ho-image.com" target="_blank">www.ho-image.com</a> (Personal Website)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><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" target="_blank">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Harrison Owen<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 03, 2011 3:38 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'World wide Open Space Technology email list'<br><b>Subject:</b> [OSList] Crossing borders -- Coming to the circle</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Carol Kasbari is a Palestinian, an old friend and “Open Spacer.” I first met her in Israel while doing a program with Tova. Carol was very young and afraid. The 2<sup>nd</sup> Infatada had broken out and a suicide bombing had just occurred in the city and as we did our program at a mountain retreat overlooking the road to Jerusalem. We could see the ambulances moving along. Suddenly Carol’s phone rang. It was her husband, Osama, and he was right in the middle of things. You could feel Carol’s terror. Our program went on. Mostly Open Space. At the end Carol came to me with the most elegant thank you I think I have ever received. She said, “You have reborned my hope.” Since that time, Carol has been doing many things including opening space for many people. Her TED talk (at the same conference Tova spoke to, I think) is powerful, to say the least. Once again she brought tears to my eyes (seems to happen a lot) – and it is clear that her hope is alive and well. Listen for yourself.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWiZMXEK_E8&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWiZMXEK_E8&feature=youtu.be</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Harrison<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Harrison Owen<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>7808 River Falls Dr.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Potomac, MD 20854<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Camden, Maine 20854<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Phone <a href="tel:301-365-2093" target="_blank">301-365-2093</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>(summer) <a href="tel:207-763-3261" target="_blank">207-763-3261</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a href="http://www.openspaceworld.com" target="_blank">www.openspaceworld.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a href="http://www.ho-image.com" target="_blank">www.ho-image.com</a> (Personal Website)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>