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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Chris - thanks for the tie back to
Cynefin! It does sound like a profound opposite of lonely, 'your
places of multiple belongings'.<br>
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Your explanation of Cynefin stimulated my recollection of the
meaning of another possible opposite of lonely, the word Ubuntu,
from the African Ngali Bantu language meaning 'I am what I am
because of who we all are'.</span><br>
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On 9/30/14 5:29 PM, Chris Corrigan wrote:<br>
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<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
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<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>
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<div>And I would add this, a beautiful poem by Raymond Carver,
which pretty well defines my sense of the opposite of lonely:
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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>
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<div>On Sep 30, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Harold Shinsato via
OSList wrote:</div>
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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 moz-do-not-send="true"
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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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. <br>
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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"? <br>
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