<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><span>Huh, my vote is late...</span></div><div><span>But I like poem no. 1</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Thanks Lucas...</span></div><div></div><div> </div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449220739313_51000"><span style="color:rgb(156, 0, 92);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:small;"><span style="line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">True happiness is a state of mind.</span><br style="line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">Happiness is not a consequence of things that happen. </span><br style="line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">Do not pursue happiness - practice it. </span><br style="line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sing, even if you do not sound good. </span><br style="line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">Smile, even when things go wrong. </span><br style="line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">Create happiness, and happy you will be.</span></span></div><br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449220739313_51030"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449220739313_51029"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449220739313_51033"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449220739313_51032"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Lucas Cioffi 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> Tuesday, 1 December 2015, 22:31<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [OSList] Vote by Dec 5th: Your Chance to Select the Next OSLIST Poet Laureate<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449220739313_51028"><br><div id="yiv1052075811"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449220739313_51027"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449220739313_51034">Hello Everyone,</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you to our three colleagues who submitted a poems! It's time to determine who earns the title of OSLIST Poet Laureate for the next six months.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449220739313_51026"><br></div><div>Please reply to this email by the end of December 5th with a vote for your favorite poem from the three options below. </div><div><br></div><div>Lucas Cioffi</div><div>OSLIST Poet Laureate, Summer-Fall 2015</div><div><span style="font-size:small;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:small;"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><b>Poem #1</b></font><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px;"><div>Open space </div><div>is a </div><div>quick </div><div>brown </div><div>fox</div><div>jumping over that</div><div>lazy dog </div><div>Control.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br><font size="4"><b>Poem #2</b></font></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px;"><div><b><font size="4">I</font></b> feel deeply touched </div><div><br></div><div><b><font size="4">A</font></b>bout everything that is happening </div><div><b><font size="4">M</font></b>y deepest feelings goes to the family of the deceased</div><div><br></div><div><b><font size="4">P</font></b>rinciples like love, peace, respect…are they lost?</div><div><b><font size="4">A</font></b>lways seemed right to love and respect every soul , every living being!</div><div><b><font size="4">R</font></b>ises my inner voice against all kind of hate and evil</div><div><b><font size="4">I</font></b>s this the world we want to build?</div><div><b><font size="4">S</font></b>ay no to hate, say no to fear, say yes to love, and please respect all kinds of being!</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br><font size="4"><b>Poem #3</b></font><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px;"><div>Someone may say, ‘What can one person do?, when others are so evil?’</div><div>One person can step forward.</div><div>Just as in Open Space.</div><div>Speaking to passion and responsibility.</div><div>We’ve seen it happen.</div><div><br></div><div>In Open Space, we have learned to notice the differences.</div><div>The one person.</div><div>The diversity.</div><div><br></div><div>One person can step forward.</div><div>Name a topic.</div><div>Submit a poem.</div><div>Hold a session with just themselves attending it.</div><div><br></div><div>In Open Space, we welcome that.</div><div>We invite it.</div><div>Even one person stepping forward</div><div>stepping into their passion and responsibility</div><div>can shift an organization. A community. A way of thinking.</div><div><br></div><div>Someone said, 'Only one person on this list submitted a poem.'</div><div><br></div><div>One person.</div><div>Stepping forward.</div><div>Speaking to passion and responsibility.</div><div><br></div><div>What can one person do?</div><div>Step forward into the silence.</div><div>Breathe.</div><div>Open up her arms.</div><div>Invite difference.</div><div>Embody the simple fact that</div><div>each person matters.</div><div><br></div><div>One person can do the most loving thing it is in her heart to do.</div></blockquote>
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