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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" class=""><div class="WordSection1"><div class="MsoNormal">There comes a moment here in Maine when the season turns. It is not a gentle, creep up on you quietly, sort of thing. It is an all at once, very suddenly, kind of thing. There is a change in the light, a different smell on the wind, a chill on the air. Fall. It’s here. Ending. Beginning. Now. <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">A time of reflections.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">It has taken me a lifetime of living. But. I have learned two things, or maybe better, come to two conclusions. 1) All Systems are open. 2) All systems are self organizing.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i class="">All Systems are Open</i> is a complicated way of saying that everything is connected, including all the things that aren’t really a “thing,” which we don’t even know about. The net result is an infinite complexity which is completely unthinkable. And what you can’t think, you surely can’t control. So much for THAT vain hope.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i class="">All Systems are self Organizing</i> -- I know of no way of actually proving this one, but it does seem a natural concomitant of the first conclusion. If you find yourself in an infinitely complex and interconnected environment, where nobody is, or can be, in control, such systems as are there, must have pretty well gotten themselves together all by themselves. Of course there are a number of people who are sure that God did it, and personally I don’t have any real problem with that. But ascribing it all to divine agency doesn’t help us very much. We still don’t have much control and the systems around us, including those we think we organized, have a source other than our selves. <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Life under the conditions described above (Open, Self Organizing Systems) can seem a little peculiar to some people, but it is not so much irrational as different. Certain “strange” things always seem to happen. For example, Whoever comes are the right people, whatever happens is the only thing that could have, wherever it happens is the right place, whenever it happens is the right time, and when it is over it is over. Always works out that way, so I’ve found.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">All this appears conducive to a very passive existence. Not much for us to do. And the truth of the matter is that doing less always seems to accomplish a great deal more. That said, there is one thing that we really have to do. Follow the Law of Two Feet! Strange sort of law which says – If ever you find yourself in a situation in which you are neither learning or contributing, you must move your two feet until you find yourself a new place where you can do the one, the other, or preferably, both. In a few words: Follow your passion and take responsibility for it.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">It took 80 years. Fun!<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Harrison <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Winter Address<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">7808 River Falls Drive<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Potomac, MD 20854<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">301-365-2093<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Summer Address<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">189 Beaucaire Ave.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Camden, ME 04843<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">207-763-3261<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Websites<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="x-msg://6/%20www.openspaceworld.com" class=""><span style="color:blue" class="">www.openspaceworld.com</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="x-msg://6/www.ho-image.com" class=""><span style="color:blue" class="">www.ho-image.com</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">OSLIST <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D" class="">To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:</span><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org" class=""><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue" class="">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">OSList mailing list<br class="">To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org" class="">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br class="">To unsubscribe send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org" class="">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br class="">To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br class=""><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org" class="">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><br class="">Past archives can be viewed here: http://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>