Sooo great wishing all well in the concluding days. I'm off for the weekend. Congrats all for making this happen. Eager to continue one on one and OShotline whenever possible. A great big hug to Lucas and Michael. Skye<br><br>On Friday, July 10, 2015, Lucas Cioffi via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Good day, Everyone.</div><div><br></div><div>All within one hour this morning, I had the great pleasure of speaking in groups of 2 and 3 with people from Norway, German, Portugal, and Australia. Waking up at 5:50am my time knocked me out of my regular routine and gave me space to be present.</div><div><br></div><div>After the audio and video chats, I was browsing some links that people shared about their work during this morning's sessions. Then I started searching through the OS List archives to find people I spoke with. The email below jumped out at me, especially the video highlighted in yellow at the bottom. Having met Alan Stewart yesterday, reading that email below was quite a different experience for me than it was when he sent it a few months ago. The difference this time is that I could actually hear him reading this email to me in his warm and inviting tone, now that we had a chance to have a conversation</div><div><br></div><div>I've been on this list for about 6 years and have never attended a WOSonOS. Hearing Alan mention the Marysville WOS2002 during a session yesterday and the fondness with which he described it made me very curious to learn more. The video he shared in yellow (below) easily communicates how special that event was for all who attended.</div><div><br></div><div>The OS community has been rolling with tremendous momentum for 20+ years before I started subscribing to the list in '09. I always felt that I missed the party, since so much has happened before I got here, but having been on Tricia's OS Hotline events on Tuesdays over the past few months and having participated in these online VOSonOS sessions over the past two days, I get a sense of how active this community is right now–all the great work and all the edges of the OS folks are currently exploring.</div><div><br></div><div>Marysville was overcome by a devastating fire in 2009, seven years after the video below. It's a reminder to me that the work of opening space is both temporary and urgent. I look forward to the remaining two days of VOSonOS and I also look forward to reading this list with a more personal connection, now that I've been able to meet and learn from many of you over the past two days. Have a great weekend, wherever you are.</div><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Lucas Cioffi</div><div>Founder, QiqoChat</div><div>Charlottesville, VA</div><div>Mobile: 917-528-1831</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Alan Stewart via OSList</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','oslist@lists.openspacetech.org');" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 7:50 PM<br>Subject: [OSList] This Was My Town [[Marysville]<br>To: World wide Open Space Technology email list <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','oslist@lists.openspacetech.org');" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">G'day fellow participants at
WOS2002 and All</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">I 'happened' on </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0LpKT_-Kmw" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">this song</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> recently through hearing Greg Champion,
</span><a href="http://gregchampion.com.au/music/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">a well known singer and song writer</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> in Australia, on our local radio
in Adelaide. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">For it
captures the grief experienced when most of the lovely little town of
Marysville (near Melbourne) in which WOS2002 was held was destroyed in a huge
bushfire in 2009.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">After playing the song several
times it came over to me as a beautifully crafted and poignant reminder of the
wondrous time which was had by those who were fortunate and privileged to participate
in this particular international get together of OST practitioners.<span> </span>And of how ephemeral life can be. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">The venue for our gathering, the
majestic largely wooden construction Marylands Hotel - in the heart of
Marysville - suited our purposes beautifully, not least as we all housed under
one roof. One of my favourite memories was going on a night walk in the nearby
forest. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">There was nothing left of
Marylands after the 2009 fire. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">A sense of this place, its
setting, and the process of the WOS event can be seen in </span><a href="http://openspaceworld.ning.com/video/wosonosinoz-2002" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">this exquisite little video</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> made by David Smith. <span> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Also
featured in the video is the facilitator of the event, Fr Brian Bainbridge. Brian,
as many would recall fondly, was a staunch promoter of OST and attended every
WOS up until WOS2009 held in Taipei in Taiwan. Sadly he died shortly after
this.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Please pass this on if you wish
to others who you consider may appreciate seeing and hearing it. <span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Looking forward. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Go well</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Alan</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Alan Stewart, PhD<br>
</span><a href="http://www.multimindsolutions.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">www.multimindsolutions.com</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><br>
</span><a href="http://conversare.net" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Conversare.net</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> <br>
Adelaide </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">‘If there’s dancing count me in.’</span></p>
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