<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447563111680_19594">ho-</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447563111680_19595"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447563111680_19596">you nailed it! <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447563111680_19597" dir="ltr">"something to do during this Transformative Moment" = Open some Space<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447563111680_19598"><span></span></div>Elwin<br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447563111680_19602" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447563111680_19601" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447563111680_19600" dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447563111680_19603" face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Harrison Owen via OSList <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> 'World wide Open Space Technology email list' <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, November 15, 2015 4:57 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [OSList] Opening space when borders are closing<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447563111680_19604" class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv4197264890"><style><!--
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--></style><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447563111680_19607"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447563111680_19606" class="yiv4197264890WordSection1"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447563111680_19605" class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal">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. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447563111680_19608" class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447563111680_19609" class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal">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.</div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal">Or Something.</div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal">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. </div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal">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.</div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal">And the magic sauce?</div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal">I do know some things it’s (special sauce) NOT: a special program, ideology, methodology, tool, technique, intervention, practice, discipline...</div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal">It is.... something that has been around a lot longer, much more basic and fundamental.</div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal">You guessed it. Self Organization.</div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal">We did not invent it. Certainly didn’t create it. But we can help, I do believe. </div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal">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.</div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal">Harrison </div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal">Winter Address</div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal">7808 River Falls Drive</div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal">Potomac, MD 20854</div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal">301-365-2093</div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal">Summer Address</div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal">189 Beaucaire Ave.</div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal">Camden, ME 04843</div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal">207-763-3261</div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal">Websites</div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal"><a href="" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:blue;"> www.openspaceworld.com</span></a></div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal"><a href="" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:blue;">www.ho-image.com</span></a></div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal">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 rel="nofollow" target="_blank" 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></div><div class="yiv4197264890MsoNormal"> </div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to <a ymailto="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org" href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To unsubscribe send an email to <a ymailto="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org" href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org" target="_blank">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><br>Past archives can be viewed here: <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">http://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>