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<br><div><div>On 24 Nov 2012, at 21:04, <a href="mailto:oslist-request@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist-request@lists.openspacetech.org</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Send OSList mailing list submissions to<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org<br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>oslist-request@lists.openspacetech.org<br><br>You can reach the person managing the list at<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>oslist-owner@lists.openspacetech.org<br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of OSList digest..."<br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. Re: Beginnings, Middles and Ends... Where are we? (JL Walker)<br> 2. The Joys of Grief -- With Thanks to Harold (Harrison Owen)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 22:39:47 -0300<br>From: "JL Walker" <jlwalker@terra.cl><br>To: "'World wide Open Space Technology email list'"<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><oslist@lists.openspacetech.org><br>Subject: Re: [OSList] Beginnings, Middles and Ends... Where are we?<br>Message-ID: <009901cdc9e4$99573c50$cc05b4f0$@cl><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>I also think is a beautiful poem Mikk that as you have said has emerged<br>naturally, and from my part I have received the original just in time. All<br>of that is a real gift!<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Juan Luis<br><br><br><br>De: oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org<br>[mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org] En nombre de Mikk Sarv<br>Enviado el: viernes, 23 de noviembre de 2012 17:59<br>Para: Artur Silva; World wide Open Space Technology email list<br>Asunto: Re: [OSList] Beginnings, Middles and Ends... Where are we?<br><br><br><br>Dear Artur,<br><br><br><br>I haven't seen it on OS list either, I don't know why. Sometimes it just<br>happens with my e-mails to list. :-( <br><br>I am lucky that at least some people can receive and spread them.<br><br>With this message I actually did not intended to make a poem, I wrote what I<br>thought. But reading it over now - it is really like a poem!<br><br>Thank you and Koos and Doug for nice words! I am happy that you liked it.<br><br><br><br>With greetings,<br><br><br><br>Mikk<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>On Nov 23, 2012, at 5:34 PM, Artur Silva wrote:<br><br><br><br><br><br>I have not seen your initial message, Mikk, until Koos answered it. It did<br>not came to me L<br><br><br><br><br><br>But it is excellent! Thank you!<br><br><br><br><br><br>Artur<br><br><br><br> _____ <br><br>From: Koos de Heer <koos@auryn.nl><br>To: World wide Open Space Technology email list<br><oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>; World wide Open Space Technology email<br>list <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> <br>Sent: Friday, November 23, 2012 8:26 AM<br>Subject: Re: [OSList] Beginnings, Middles and Ends... Where are we?<br><br><br><br>Beautiful Mikk, Thank you!<br><br>Made my day.<br><br>Koos<br><br>At 17:57 22-11-2012, Mikk Sarv wrote:<br><br><br><br>I think opening space is also creation of structure. <br>The structure is like a body, where Spirit can live. <br>When the body gets old, it dies and Spirit leaves the body. <br>But Spirit needs the body or structure. <br><br>Long moments of silence at the beginning are like pain of birth. <br>After OS event everybody often feels like newborn. <br>People, who like Structure, might feel Spirit as something evil, what<br>destroys everything. <br>People who like Spirit may feel the Structure as evil. <br>But they both are just sides of the same dance. <br>Opening Space is giving birth. It offers for Spirit a new body/structure to<br>go on with dance.<br><br>With greetings,<br><br>Mikk Sarv<br><br><br>On Nov 22, 2012, at 4:45 PM, JL Walker wrote:<br><br><br><br><br>Dear Arno,<br>Anticipating the response of HO, I can take the risk to say that the<br>structures of management are always part of the map and the structure of the<br>principles and the law of OS is always part of the territory.<br>Make sense for you this?<br>Hugs,<br>Juan Luis<br><br>De: oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org<br>[mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org] En nombre deArno Baltin<br>Enviado el: jueves, 22 de noviembre de 2012 4:51<br>Para: World wide Open Space Technology email list<br>Asunto: Re: [OSList] Beginnings, Middles and Ends... Where are we?<br><br>Dear Harrisson!<br><br>Could you please elaborate on the difference between creating a structure<br>and opening space. When facilitating OS meeting I also create a structure by<br>setting the space and introducing the rules and law (isn't it?). And at the<br>end of OS I leave the space opened as inviting to take the structure (of<br>mind - some attitudes based on the OS experience, ther rules and law) with. <br><br>Be well,<br><br> Arno <br><br>Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn<br> Eesti Vabariik<br><br><br><br>2012/11/21 Harrison Owen <hhowen@verizon.net><br>Juan Luis ? Always nice to hear from you! And my answer to your question is<br>something like this: Only create structure when you have to, and then create<br>as little as you possibly can. Structure is useful in organizations, but it<br>certainly can get in the way. So don?t overdo it. Ask yourself, ?What is the<br>minimal amount of structure necessary to get the job done.? It is always<br>easy to add if you need it, but once some structure is created (committee,<br>procedure, etc) it seems to stay around forever, even when nobody can<br>remember what it was for?<br><br>Harrison<br><br>Harrison Owen<br>7808 River Falls Dr.<br>Potomac, MD 20854<br>USA<br><br>189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer)<br>Camden, Maine 20854<br><br>Phone 301-365-2093 <x-msg://1335/> <br>(summer) 207-763-3261 <x-msg://1335/> <br><br>www.openspaceworld.com <http://www.openspaceworld.com%20/> <br>www.ho-image.com (Personal <http://www.ho-image.com%20%28personal/><br>Website)<br>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST<br>Go to: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org<br><http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org> <br><br>From: oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:<br>oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org<br><mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org> ] On Behalf OfJL Walker<br>Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 1:53 PM<br>To: 'World wide Open Space Technology email list'<br>Subject: Re: [OSList] Beginnings, Middles and Ends... Where are we?<br><br>Many thanks Harrison. Just now I could give me time to read everything about<br>your email slowly.<br>Makes me much sense for the moment that we are living here in Chile with our<br>CDIC project (Centro de Desarrollo de la Inteligencia Colectiva), when we<br>started to give us account that would be necessary some structure.<br>The question is how we can move forward without that decays the Spirit and<br>what could be the structure that would allow that purpose?<br>Hugs,<br>Juan Luis<br><br>De: oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org [<br>mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org<br><mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org> ] En nombre deHarrison Owen<br>Enviado el: lunes, 19 de noviembre de 2012 21:27<br>Para: 'World wide Open Space Technology email list'<br>Asunto: [OSList] Beginnings, Middles and Ends... Where are we?<br><br>I?ve been thinking about us, or should I say OS?.<br><br>It seems to be a truth of life that everything (us included) has a<br>beginning, middle and an end. The separation between beginning and end can<br>be quite various (longer or shorter), but one thing is for certain. For<br>every beginning, there is an end. Along the way it is inevitable that people<br>ask, how are they doing, and what next?<br><br>What is true for life in general seems to be true for organizations of all<br>sorts, including ours, by which I mean the Good Old OS Community. Perhaps<br>you never thought of the OS Community as an organization, and certainly if<br>you understand organization to be what might be called The Standard Model<br>(The Leader, Board of Directors, and all the Rest) the OS Community doesn?t<br>qualify. On the other hand, were you to look at what OS Inc. has done, that<br>assessment changes, I think. As a matter of fact there are loads of Standard<br>Model organizations that don?t even come close to our accomplishments. First<br>of all we have been around for 27 years with thousands of ?members? all over<br>the world. Each year ?we? produce global gatherings in multiple places,<br>along with training programs and consultations. And when it comes to the end<br>product, Opening Space, the numbers get a little mind boggling. Not bad at<br>all ? just don?t look too closely at how it all gets done. J So how are we<br>doing? Well past the Beginning for sure, but what now, and where next?<br><br>Quite a while ago, I found myself thinking and writing a lot about the<br>natural life cycle of organizations (?Spirit: Transformation and Development<br>in Organizations? and ?The Power of Spirit?). Beginnings, middles and ends<br>were pretty central to this ? but there was more. All about what seemed to<br>be happening along the way, and what, if anything, we might do about that.<br><br>To represent my understanding of the natural history of organizations, I<br>came up with a simple graph which, for lack of a better term, became known<br>as The Spirit Chart. Unfortunately we cannot do graphics here on OSLIST, but<br>the graph is simplicity itself, and so I am sure that you can quickly draw<br>it, or imagine it in your mind?s eye. The vertical axis is titled ?level?<br>and the horizontal axis is ?time.? On the chart, there are two lines, one<br>called ?Spirit? and the other ?Structure.? At Time 1 (the beginning) Spirit<br>is high and Structure is low. Over time (moving from left to right) the<br>lines cross in the middle, and at the end -- Spirit is low, and Structure is<br>high. And there you have it: Beginning, Middle, and End.<br><br>As you might suspect, I did not gather masses of data in order to construct<br>my chart. Indeed I really can?t imagine precisely what that data might be or<br>how to gather it. All that said, common sense and experience supports the<br>story that the graph seeks to tell? All organizations start out with High<br>Spirit(s) ? and virtually no Structure. At the moment of creation it is all<br>potential, a wonderful idea, a gigantic WOW! The good news is that something<br>is moving and shaking. Excitement and optimism rule the day. But there is a<br>price. Orderly procedures simply do not exist, massive amounts of energy is<br>burned for minimal results, the Wheel is constantly re-invented.<br><br>But then things change. Rules and Structures are created to focus and direct<br>all that wonderful Spirit. Initially there is resistance from some Free<br>Spirited Folks, but the net result is positive and beneficial. Work gets<br>done, schedules are kept, product goes out the door. And best of all there<br>is plenty of Free Spirit around to creatively explore new opportunities, new<br>ways of doing business.<br><br>But over time, the lines cross. The Spirit Line and the Structure Line<br>intersect and then separate, with Structure rising and Spirit falling, being<br>constrained in smaller and smaller spaces by the overburden of Structure.<br>For a while nobody notices, for the organization is doing the business in<br>productive and orderly ways, and who could complain about that? But there<br>comes a time when the organization is defined and imprisoned by its<br>structure and rules. Spirit is in evidence mostly by its absence ? except in<br>the stories and memories of how it ?used to be.? When you are out of Spirit,<br>you are out of business. At least that is the story.<br><br>But there could be a different ending. Were it somehow possible to release<br>the Spirit from its prison, renewal might happen. But for that to occur,<br>the prison walls must break. Or to put it in slightly different terms, the<br>confining structure must shatter so that the Spirit may reform in new ways.<br>This, I think, is an accurate, albeit metaphorical picture of<br>Transformation: Spirit breaking loose to take on new form (trans-form).<br><br>So where are we? Clearly we have had our initial WOW! And although it is<br>certainly true that each time some new person joins our happy Tribe, having<br>just experienced the opening of space for some group of people ? that WOW is<br>heard once more. It is also true that for a large (and increasing) number of<br>our band the experience is no longer a strange one. We?ve been there before,<br>and while it is always a delight, it really becomes quite predictable. I<br>would never say boring, but predictable for sure. Sit in a circle, create a<br>bulletin board, open a market place, and the folks will go to work. Every<br>time.<br><br>The curious thing is that 27 years into our adventure, our organization is<br>still as lively and spirit filled as it is ? a status that just about<br>everybody recognizes in all of our common gatherings, as for example the<br>recent WOSONOS in London. In my own experience of organizational life, this<br>record is pretty remarkable. In every other organization I have known, or<br>been a part of, by the time it reached its 27thyear, an awful lot of the<br>original Spirit, enthusiasm, to say nothing of agility and flexibility had<br>disappeared. People talk about ?mature organizations? -- when they finally<br>got beyond the ?wild days in the garage? (computer start-ups, for example)<br>and settled down into a more orderly mode of being. Think of Amazon, Apple,<br>Microsoft, et al. Somehow we seem to have escaped some of that, and how<br>could that be?<br><br>I think part of the answer comes from the nature of our ?product? and what<br>we do. The truth of the matter is that every time we think we have it all<br>figured out, and have ?finally? arrived at the ?right? way of doing things ?<br>we are in for some surprises. It turns out that we really didn?t know what<br>we were talking about. Somehow, Open Space was/is so much more than we ever<br>thought, and what we do/did, so much less. What starts out looking like just<br>another approach to better meetings or group technique subtly morphs into<br>the story of the cosmos (self organization). And we really don?t DO anything<br>at all. We simply offer an invitation, and then get out of the way.<br><br>To be sure, there has been a developmental process in our approach as we<br>have gone along, but it apparently moves in the diametrically opposite<br>direction from similar processes found with other approaches. Put it all<br>under the heading of ?Thinking of one more thing NOT to do? and pretty soon<br>(well maybe someday) ? we?ll end up with nothing. No approach at all!<br><br>Of course, there have been a few signs of approaching Middle Age. You might<br>call it hardening of the organizational arteries ? conversations about the<br>?right? way to conduct an Open Space, usually accompanied by an expanding<br>list of critical details with attendant Do?s and Don?ts. Fortunately we then<br>receive a marvelous report (Sandy Gee, being the latest) how just about<br>everything was ?wrong? ? but surprisingly ? it all worked just perfectly.<br><br>To be sure I have heard some chatter about ?guidelines? (Thomas H. J) ? but<br>no proposal that we ?get ourselves organized? ? and certainly nothing as<br>forbidding as a governmental structure with appropriate Boards and Bylaws!<br>So we seem to be dodging the bullet, at least for the moment. And it may be<br>that we have some distance to go before the end. I doubt, however, that our<br>longevity will ever have anything to do with what might be called The<br>Standard Organizational Approach, usually characterized as<br>?institutionalization.? Indeed I more than suspect that once again we will<br>find success by going in the opposite direction. Rather than building<br>durable structures that might last for the ages (none do ? so far) ? it will<br>be a story of the constant shattering of structures and procedures to<br>release the Spirit in new and vital directions. Transformation, I believe it<br>is called.<br><br>But there will come an end, of that I have no doubt. But I hope that the end<br>of OS Inc might occur with hardly a ripple or note. Not unlike old soldiers<br>who never seem to die ? they just fade away. OS Inc will become quite<br>invisible when it is clear to all that everything is Open Space. Blending<br>into the woodwork, as it were. Nothing new, Nothing special. Just what is.<br><br><br>Harrison<br><br><br>Harrison Owen<br>7808 River Falls Dr.<br>Potomac, MD 20854<br>USA<br><br>189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer)<br>Camden, Maine 20854<br><br>Phone 301-365-2093 <x-msg://1335/> <br>(summer) 207-763-3261 <x-msg://1335/> <br><br>www.openspaceworld.com <http://www.openspaceworld.com%20/> <br>www.ho-image.com (Personal <http://www.ho-image.com%20%28personal/><br>Website)<br>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST<br>Go to: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org<br><http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org> <br><br><br><br><br>Se certific? que el correo no contiene virus.<br>Comprobada por AVG - www.avg.es <http://www.avg.es/> <br>Versi?n: 2013.0.2793 / Base de datos de virus: 2629/5905 - Fecha de la<br>versi?n: 19/11/2012<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org<br>To unsubscribe send an email to OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org<br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br>http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org <br><br><br><br><br>Se certific? que el correo no contiene virus.<br>Comprobada por AVG - www.avg.es <http://www.avg.es/> <br>Versi?n: 2013.0.2793 / Base de datos de virus: 2629/5909 - Fecha de la<br>versi?n: 21/11/2012<br>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org<br>To unsubscribe send an email to OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org<br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br>http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org <br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org<br>To unsubscribe send an email to OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org<br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br>http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org <br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org<br>To unsubscribe send an email to OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org<br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br>http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org<br>To unsubscribe send an email to OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org<br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br>http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org<br><br><br><br> _____ <br><br>Se certific? que el correo no contiene virus.<br>Comprobada por AVG - www.avg.es<br>Versi?n: 2013.0.2793 / Base de datos de virus: 2629/5912 - Fecha de la<br>versi?n: 22/11/2012<br><br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20121123/f4f53900/attachment.html><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 11:44:18 -0500<br>From: "Harrison Owen" <hhowen@verizon.net><br>To: "'World wide Open Space Technology email list'"<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><oslist@lists.openspacetech.org><br>Subject: [OSList] The Joys of Grief -- With Thanks to Harold<br>Message-ID: <000601cdca62$f32b7650$d98262f0$@net><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>Harold ? the best part of your message came at the end, and for me it was<br>the most important therefore deserving its own special note? Something about<br>the ?Joys of Grief.?<br><br><br><br>Harold said: ?As you said in Wave Rider, OST has a deep connection to the<br>grieving process that Elisabeth K?bler-Ross described as a part of facing<br>death. Which for me is fascinating given how much joy I always experience -<br>but it is almost always accompanied other deep emotions as well.?<br><br><br><br>You have put your finger on an important point, which may seem paradoxical<br>or even contradictory, but really is neither. The truth is, grieving (or<br>more properly The Grief Work Process) is fundamentally joyful, even<br>triumphant, at least that is the intent which is realized only when the<br>process comes to completion. Simply put, it is the way we as human beings<br>move from loss to renewal, from ending to new beginning, from the encounter<br>with death to the experience of new life. Of course, if the process is<br>aborted along the way, the final results are inevitably dismal and painful. <br><br><br><br>Obviously what I have said above can be viewed a total nonsense, or worse,<br>but stick with me, and I think I can get you there? But first something<br>about the connection to Open Space. It will come as no surprise that I find<br>Open Space to be nothing more than self organization at work. In a word,<br>Open Space works because self organization works. And, self organization is<br>itself a process.<br><br><br><br>The process of self organization can be described in infinite, complex<br>detail, but reduced to essentials, the steps are as follows: Order, Chaos,<br>New and more complex order. It goes like this. Once upon a time there was<br>this organization, a fine human system that lived a comfortable productive<br>life. All seemed right with the world, but one day that world changed, and<br>what was once a comfortable fit became increasingly challenging. The poor<br>organization did all that it could, going this way and that -- seeking a<br>path. But to no avail ? and comfortable order dissolved into PAINFUL chaos.<br>But there is, or at least there can be a next chapter. Through the alchemy<br>of self organization new and more complex order appears, and life goes on.<br>But the question abides. How do we get from here to there? How do we deal<br>with the pain? The answer, I think, is the Grief Work Process.<br><br><br><br>Elisabeth K?bler-Ross made history when she identified and described the<br>essential steps we all go through in the face of Death, our own or that of<br>another. In my work it became clear that groups of people (organizations) go<br>through exactly the same process when faced with ending. And that ending can<br>come in all sorts of flavors: the end of a project, the end of a way of<br>life, the ending of a company ? but the response is identical in all<br>situations. At the moment of ending, which I have characterized as an ?Oh<br>Shit Moment,? there is Shock and Anger. This is followed by Denial, then<br>Memories (Stories of how it used to be), Despair ? the bitter/sweet instant<br>of letting it all go. Then we come to Open Space, intense silence with<br>nothing there and everything potential. The process comes to an end when two<br>magic words are spoken, ?I wonder if?? I wonder if I/we can build a new<br>company, find a new career, meet a new life partner. When wonder and<br>imagination come together, there you have Vision, and the cycle is complete.<br><br><br><br>Obviously I have covered a lot of territory with very few details. If you<br>want more check out my book ?Wave Rider.? But hopefully I have said enough<br>so that at the least you get the function and flavor of Grief Work. To be<br>sure, it begins at a very painful moment, but the end of the story is all<br>about joy. Functionally, Griefwork is the means by which we as human beings<br>navigate the painful parts of self-organization. Things end, and that is<br>always painful. But when they re-organize (self-organize) life goes on, and<br>Griefwork gets us there. I find it to be hardwired into our humanity. We<br>don?t have to think about it at all ? works all by itself. Each step is<br>necessary, and none can be skipped, no matter how much we might like to move<br>directly from ending to new beginning.<br><br><br><br>Another way of looking at Grief Work ? It is what human self-organizing<br>systems do as a major part of the adaptive process. And here is the<br>connection to Open Space Technology: To the extent that OST is<br>self-organization at work, it is equally and also Grief Work at work.<br>Knowing this, and being acutely sensitive to what is going on, can be<br>extraordinarily helpful to our understanding of what is happening with our<br>clients, and what they may be doing/saying/manifesting during the time in<br>Open Space. <br><br><br><br>A related factor is that Griefwork, like all other aspects of self<br>organization, function best when there is sufficient time/space (open space)<br>to move around in. Things shut down when arbitrary control is imposed ? and<br>that is sadly what happens often in the everyday world of organizations.<br>Most obviously, nobody wants to talk about dying/ending. And those who do<br>are often viewed as strange, weird, pessimists, or macabre. Definitely a<br>no-no! And when there is such conversation it can only be entered into under<br>controlled circumstance ? quietly and in moderation. Is it any wonder then<br>that when space is suddenly opened, the unspeakable is spoken? That Open<br>Space is so often experienced as an amazing passage from controlled silence<br>to serious Joy?<br><br><br><br>Thank you Harold for surfacing a critical element in our ?practice.? As we<br>move along from beginnings, to middles ? and ask ourselves about What Nexts?<br>? I would believe that we have the details of the process (OST) down pretty<br>well, AND I know there are vast areas to explore and understand.<br><br><br><br>Harrison<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Harrison Owen<br><br>7808 River Falls Dr.<br><br>Potomac, MD 20854<br><br>USA<br><br><br><br>189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer)<br><br>Camden, Maine 20854<br><br><br><br>Phone 301-365-2093<br><br>(summer) 207-763-3261<br><br><br><br>www.openspaceworld.com <br><br>www.ho-image.com (Personal Website)<br><br>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST<br>Go to:<br><http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org><br>http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org<br><br><br><br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20121124/c170b7e2/attachment-0001.htm><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org<br>To unsubscribe send an email to OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org<br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br>http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org<br><br><br>End of OSList Digest, Vol 21, Issue 19<br>**************************************<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>