<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Way to go!<br><br><div>From my iPad</div></div><div><br>On 15/11/2015, at 22:57, Harrison Owen via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">The events in Paris have caught our attention. However, with deepest respect and sympathy for my Parisian friends (Christine in particular), the simple truth is that the human toll (127 and counting) is only the daily score in many troubled spots of the world. You can name them as well as I. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">And Mr Holland, President of France, declaring, “This is an act of War,” and “promising” retaliation of whatever sort -- is quite understandable. Of course he also (according to the American Press) closed the borders. Again understandable, but curious.... especially when it appears that some substantial portion of the combatants (enemy) are French. Somehow the enemy is us.... This is not your grandfather’s war.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Or Something.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Any human being who claims to understand what is going on, and feels competent to prescribe the specific solution (close the borders, open the borders, ban the immigrants, welcome the immigrants, shoot them all, whatever) is, in my humble judgment, quite mad. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I, however, will venture one affirmative (positive) statement. We (That’s all 7 ½ Billion of us) are in a Transformative Moment. How long it will last, and what the end result will be, I don’t have a clue. But I do believe that it will take all 7 ½ billion of us, working together, to solve the issues at hand. Tall order, to be sure. Then again, we have had some several hundred thousand years’ practice. And to date – despite all odds – we’re still here.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">And the magic sauce?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I do know some things it’s (special sauce) NOT: a special program, ideology, methodology, tool, technique, intervention, practice, discipline...<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">It is.... something that has been around a lot longer, much more basic and fundamental.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">You guessed it. Self Organization.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">We did not invent it. Certainly didn’t create it. But we can help, I do believe. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Open Space wherever, whenever, however, with whom-so-ever as often as you can. If nothing else, it will give you something to do during this Transformative Moment.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Harrison <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Winter Address<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">7808 River Falls Drive<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Potomac, MD 20854<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">301-365-2093<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Summer Address<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">189 Beaucaire Ave.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Camden, ME 04843<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">207-763-3261<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Websites<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="%20www.openspaceworld.com"><span style="color:blue"> www.openspaceworld.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="www.ho-image.com"><span style="color:blue">www.ho-image.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">OSLIST <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org"><span style="color:blue">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>OSList mailing list</span><br><span>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br><span>To unsubscribe send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br><span>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:</span><br><span><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a></span><br><span>Past archives can be viewed here: <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">http://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span></div></blockquote></body></html>