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Wow that water is cold Harrison. It is something blue and something
cold. Hmmm, ICE is blue...<br>
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The shock of my cold-water plunge is actually one in a chain of
astonishing experiences last weekend. The epic beauty of the
Penobscot Bay. I just dont know what to
say....https://www.google.com/search?q=penobscot+bay<br>
<br>
Astonishing is the water, the bay, the weather, and the generally
constant feeling of a light trance on that boat. <br>
An amazing day. I'm so grateful for it. <br>
<br>
Not surprising is...the depth of those conversations about the
interesting ideas: teh dance, the colors, the smells.....the grief.<br>
<br>
I'm sad it's over. Doctor Seuss has something to say about that:
"Dont be sad it's over, be glad it happened."<br>
<br>
(...more of the good Doctor here...)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/61105.Dr_Seuss">https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/61105.Dr_Seuss</a><br>
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Harold Shinsato, one of the participants in our pilgrimage, does not
come with us to the islands. He departs for his plane before we ship
out. It's tough watching him go. I'm sure it was tough to leave. <br>
<br>
Harold was with us all week, and we had a busy week: <br>
<ul>
<li>He flew to Boston on Monday, </li>
<li>He facilitated an 1-day Open Agile Adoption OST ("OST-2")
scheduled for one of my Boston clients, on Tuesday,</li>
<li>He was an invited speaker to the agileCULTUREcon 2014 event on
Wednesday & Thursday,</li>
<li>He did some nice driving up I-95 to Maine on Saturday (and we
had some great conversations!), </li>
<li>He departed Camden for Missoula on Sunday, leaving the rest of
us all aboard the Ethelyn Rose. </li>
</ul>
Harold was great facilitating for my client, INTUIT in Boston.<br>
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We had a nice dinner Saturday night and Harold was there. There is a
good story about our dinner:<br>
<br>
...the dinner kind of ended as they do, and we all kind of get up
together. The eating place's seating is a big old screened porch. <br>
Getting up, I notice a screen door we never walked though. <br>
The door seemed to open outside, where we here headed.<br>
I gave it a poke and it opened. Looking both ways, with Harrison
following, I asked: "Are we authorized to do this?"<br>
<br>
Here's Harrison's not-so-surpising response (with a nice pic of
Harrison and Harold...)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/DanielMezick/status/483054326265692161">https://twitter.com/DanielMezick/status/483054326265692161</a><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/30/14 4:41 PM, Harrison Owen
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dan Mezick and four of his friends paid me
the honor of a visit here In Camden. We spoke of many things,
profound and trivial – enjoyed an occasional libation or two.
But always wishing to insure my guests the “full experience” –
I offered to take them out on my boat, The Ethelyn Rose. She
is not the Queen Mary, but definitely large enough to venture
to the outer islands, well off shore. Not quite the end of the
earth, but you can sort of see it from there. We stopped at a
small group of islands by the name of White. Luncheon was
enjoyed, conversations ensued, and as the time came to leave
(mid afternoon) it had in fact grown a little warm (for Maine
– that would be in the middle 70’s). I am not sure whether it
was the warmth of the conversations or the accompanying
libations, but Dan and one of his friends looked longingly at
the water all about us, and indicated they wished to go for a
dip. I smiled and told them that to the best of my knowledge
there were two groups of people who would swim in that water:
Drunks and Small Children. Undeterred they plunged in,
accompanied by most satisfying screams (as far as I was
concerned) and some degree of horror on the part of the other
guests. Dan’s friend had asked me if people suffered from
Cardiac Arrest when jumping in. My response – Not too many,
but it is a good way to keep the number of tourists down.
Anyhow, the “swim” lasted about 60 seconds before they threw
themselves back on the boat. Sort of quivered on the deck like
beached seals. True Blue – From top to bottom.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And what does this have to do with Open
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<p class="MsoNormal">Harrison<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ps – Water Temperature this time of year is
high 40’s (Fahrenheit) <o:p></o:p></p>
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