<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Not if the wearer remembers to keep their eyes and heart wide open to the possibility. Lovely to have your reply Paul, thank you<div>:-)</div><div>Amerie</div><div><br><div><div>On 2 Feb 2013, at 21:19, paul levy wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Reading the "wry smile" comments with a warm smile. <div><br></div><div>Perhaps the wry smile sometimes is a barrier to recognising a humble hero.</div><div><br></div><div>Paul<span></span></div><div><br><br>On Saturday, 2 February 2013, amerie rose wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-size:13px">Enjoying this latest <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:16px"><em style="font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)">tête</em>-à-<em style="font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)">tête</em></span> with a </span><span style="font-size:13px">wry smile!</span><div> <span style="font-size:13px">To work within the group, for the group, and through the group is, perhaps, a step that only the humble hero may take...<br></span><div>Amerie</div><div><br><div><div>On 2 Feb 2013, at 18:49, Paul Nunesdea wrote:</div> <br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="auto"><div>Artur, accepting your invitation, I arrive to this list from a different 'technological' tradition and I marvel at Open Space possibilities. </div><div><br></div><div> I find Paul Levy's blog post quite interesting in adopting this stance:</div><div><br></div><div>'Me as observer of myself in the universe' </div><div><br></div><div>How to convert this in </div><div><br></div> <div>'we as observers of ourselves in the universe' </div><div><br></div><div>is probably the challenge a 'group' faces if it is to emerge in its full 'groupness'.</div><div><br></div><div>I wonder wether a degree of self organisation always occurs in any form of 'group technology' and that Open Space Technology differentiates by 'priming' that ever-present force of the universe to become a leading driver for the group activity. </div> <div><br></div><div>In that respect I do not see why OST needs to be open to evolution, I see self-organisation as an ever-present phenomena, and like the sun light it sometimes shines with more brilliance than another and sometimes it can also be night.</div> <div><br></div><div>And I have also something to add, one daffodil does not makes the spring, but one daffodil can be a marvellous instance for experiencing spring. </div><div><br></div><div>Let the dialogue flow...</div> <div><br></div><div>Paul Nunesdea</div><div><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:19px;white-space:nowrap"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/nunesdea" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/nunesdea</a></span></div> <div><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:19px;white-space:nowrap"><br></span><div>From my iPad</div></div><div><br>El 01/02/2013, a las 01:18, Artur Silva <<a>arturfsilva@yahoo.com</a>> escribió:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"> <div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><div><span>Thanks, Paul.</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"> <span><br></span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>In fact, my comment to Paul's blog post at the OST group in the Facebook was as follows:</span></div> <div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"> <span><div><span><span><span><span>«This is a very interesting position (or healthy provocation) that I would like to see discussed more largely within the community interested. Unfortunately, neither the Facebook, nor the Blogs are good tools for dialogue. E-mail distribution lists or fo</span></span><span><span><span>rums are much better. Oh, but if I remember well, there is a list for that, with archives since 1996 (</span><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><span>). I repeat a suggestion I made some time ago to </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/rationalmadness" target="_blank">Paul Levy</a><span>: post this at the OSLIST. You may be surprised with the (open) results. Be prepared to it!»</span></span></span></span></span></div> <div><span><span><span><span><span><br></span></span></span></span></span></div></span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><span><br></span></div> <div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>I think his Blog post has material for an interesting dialogue.</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"> <span><br></span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>Who wants to begin?</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"> <span><br></span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>Artur</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"> <span><br></span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>-------------</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> <div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt"></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div> _______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To unsubscribe send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>