<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Although I don't speak Welsh, one word I find very compelling is Cynefin pronounced "kuh-NIV-en". I know the word because it's the name of of complexity framework. But it also means "your places of multiple belonging". That refers to the fact that all of us feel many different homes and many different places where we feel connected in the world in English there's no word that can capture this sense of multiple belonging but I do like the idea that such a sentiment need to name. </div><div><br></div><div>In Anishnabemowin which is the language of Ojibway and related peoples of North America, the word indinewmaganik means "all my relations" but is actually better translated as "I belong to everything." That's as good an opposite of "lonely" as I can think of. </div><div> </div><div><br></div><div><br><br><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-- </span><div>CHRIS CORRIGAN</div><div>Harvest Moon Consultants</div><div>Facilitation, Open Space Technology and process design </div><div><br></div><div>Check <a href="http://www.chriscorrigan.com">www.chriscorrigan.com</a> for upcoming workshops, blog posts and free resources. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br>On Sep 30, 2014, at 2:19 PM, John Watkins via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>And I would add this, a beautiful poem by Raymond Carver, which pretty well defines my sense of the opposite of lonely:<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; ">Late Fragment - by Raymond Carver</span></div><div><div class="ecxpost-header" style="line-height: 1.6; "><div class="ecxpost-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="ecxpost-body ecxentry-content" id="ecxpost-body-7344957514904798287" style="width: 490px; line-height: 1.4; ">And did you get what<br>you wanted from this life, even so?<br>I did.<br>And what did you want?<br>To call myself beloved, to feel myself<br>beloved on the earth.<br></div><div class="ecxpost-body ecxentry-content" id="ecxpost-body-7344957514904798287" style="width: 490px; line-height: 1.4; "><br></div><div class="ecxpost-body ecxentry-content" id="ecxpost-body-7344957514904798287" style="width: 490px; line-height: 1.4; ">John</div><div><br></div><div><div>On Sep 30, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Harold Shinsato via OSList wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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Annamarie,<br>
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Thank you for a lovely question! The opposite of lonely is what I
very often experience in Open Space. This theme also resonates to
much of what we talked about on the OS Hotline today.<br>
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I must confess to have used an internet thesaurus to answer your
question. <a href="http://www.thesaurus.com/">http://www.thesaurus.com</a>.
In English at least, some opposites of lonely are (the emphasis in
bold is my own):<br>
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* populated<br>
* <b>sociable</b><br>
* befriended <br>
* <b>close</b><br>
* frequented<br>
* inhabited <br>
* <b>loved</b><br>
* unlonely <br>
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Warm Regards,<br>
Harold<br>
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On 9/30/14 4:54 AM, Annamarie Pluhar via OSList wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:7E48F808-78E0-4A23-B990-06623BCFE6C4@pluharconsulting.com" type="cite">Hi all,
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For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because
there are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I
hope that you will forgive me for asking an off topic question.
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For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not
English.... Does your language have a word that is the opposite
of "lonely"?
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Feel free to respond to me off list..
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Thanks!
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Annamarie Pluhar
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