<h1 class="entry-title" style="border:0px;font-weight:400;margin:0px 50px 0px 0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;clear:both;line-height:1.3"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Pooh and the Blue Hat</span></font></h1><p class="comments-link" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.4"><a href="https://rationalmadness.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/pooh-and-the-blue-hat/#respond" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0.3em 0.5em;vertical-align:baseline;border-top-left-radius:20px;border-top-right-radius:20px;border-bottom-right-radius:20px;border-bottom-left-radius:20px;display:inline-block;min-width:2em;text-align:center"><font color="#000000" size="2"><span class="no-reply" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"></span></font></a></p><div class="entry-content" style="font-style:inherit;border:0px;margin:1em 0px 0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><div id="storycontent" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Pooh learns the difference between Forwards and Backwards.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><br></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Pooh and the Blue Hat</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">When Pooh awoke each morning he always stretched his paws in all of the directions he could, yawned a very large yawn, turned over, pulled the blankets tightly about him, and tried to immediately go back to sleep. But no matter how hard he tried he never did. He never could.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“I never can”, thought Pooh, as he tried, but couldn’t. As he tried, but didn’t.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Bright sunshine was streaming in through the window and the noises of the Hundred Acre Wood – the singing of birds and the rustling wind in the trees announced that it was morning.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Perhaps if I try one last enormous yawn I shall succeed in dropping off” thought Pooh. “After all, a yawn is supposed to be an Announcement That One Is Tired.”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">So he yawned. He yawned for a full minute and a half. And when he had stopped yawning, Pooh realised he was now more wide awake than ever.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Bother!” said Pooh aloud. “I’m not one bit tired after all. I supposed I really shall have to get up. Besides, dropping off is not a good thing. If you do drop off you might land Somewhere Nasty. Bump, bump, bump !”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">And with that, he climbed out of bed all the while composing a Very Special Pooh Bumping Song, about which he was very pleased:</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Bump ! Bump ! Bump !<br>Before Breakfast,<br>Bump ! Bump ! Bump !<br>Before tea,<br>Bump ! Bump ! Bump !<br>Before dinner,<br>That’s a bump, bump, bumping life for me !</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">After a hearty breakfast of muffins with honey, followed by honey with muffins, Pooh decided to take a walk in the wood. For it really was a beautiful spring morning.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Stepping out into the warm sunshine Pooh skipped lazily along a narrow pathway to the winding stream, all the while merrily humming his new song. As he reached a bend in the path he noticed something bright blue lying in the long grass beside the path.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“It isn’t a flower.” thought Pooh. “for, if it was a flower, then it would look like a flower, and surely it doesn’t. So it isn’t.” He really could be a Very Perceptive Bear for a Bear Of Very Little Brain.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“And it isn’t a mouse.” he further thought. “for, if it was a mouse, then it would squeak like a mouse, and surely it doesn’t. So it isn’t.” Pooh sighed. All of this thinking so early in the morning was making him hungry.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">But what could it be ?</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The Little Bear reached down and picked up the strange object and stared at it for a long time, turning it over in his paws as he examined it.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">At last he exclaimed: “I am not sure what it is, and I am not sure what it is not, but I do feel a curious urge to wear it on my head.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">So he did.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">It was a perfect fit. It nestled easily between Pooh’s ears upon the crown of his furry head, with a brim which settled comfortably at the back.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“I do believe” concluded Pooh, “that what I have found is most definitely a hat.”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">And off he went along the path in search of his friend Piglet to proudly announce the Arrival of the New Hat Upon His Head.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Pooh found Piglet washing his ears in the stream. Piglet liked to wash his ears at least once a week, and he liked to wash them in the stream because the water was cool, but not too cold when it had caught the morning sun for an hour.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Morning, Piglet.” said Pooh, by way of announcing his arrival.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">But Piglet did not reply for his ears were full of spring water.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Morning Piglet” Pooh repeated, this time more of a bellow. Piglet almost leapt into the air, and turned to his friend, drops of water dripping down his cheeks.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Ah, good morning Pooh. And how are you this fine morning ?”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Very well, thank you Piglet. I want you to be the first to celebrate the Arrival of The New Hat Upon My Head.”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Piglet eyed the blue cap. “It truly is a fine hat, Pooh. A very fine, blue, Pooh Hat. But tell me, why are you Back to Front ?”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Pooh frowned. “Back to Front ? What is Back to Front ?”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Er…Back to Front…Front to Back… something to do with Wrong Way Round.”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Bother!” said Pooh. “What can you mean ?”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Piglet was not very good at explaining things; certainly not something as complicated as Back to Front. “Perhaps you should ask Rabbit, or Owl.”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“That I shall ! Goodbye Piglet.” said Pooh, and with that, he trudged off along the path which ran beside the stream, muttering coolly to himself: “Front to Back – Back to Front. Dear, oh, dear or dear…”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">And Piglet returned to washing his ears. They really didn’t need any more washing, but Piglet did so love doing them !.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Rabbit was hanging out his washing to dry when Pooh marched through the gate into his garden.’</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Morning Rabbit!” said Pooh.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Good Morning, Pooh,” replied Rabbit not taking his eyes off his linen sheets and wooden clothes pegs.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Well ?” said Pooh.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Well, what ?” replied Rabbit, disappearing underneath a huge, white bed sheet.”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“What do you think ?” continued Pooh.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“What do I think ? Well I think a lot a different things. Different things on different occasions” said Rabbit reappearing from behind a newly hung sheet. It was then he noticed the Arrival of the New Hat Upon Pooh’s Head. “Good Heavens !”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Yes, I suppose they are,” said Pooh, a little confused. “But what do you think of my new hat ? Piglet says it is Front to Back. Or Round way Wrong.”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Well,” said Rabbit, “If that is what Piglet says then it is he who is Front to Back, I mean, Back to Front. Your very fine, blue hat, dear Pooh, is the Wrong way Round ! And that is no use, no use at all.”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“I don’t understand.” said Pooh, who most definitely did not understand.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“How can I put this, tactfully” said Rabbit. “Well, Pooh, a hat – if it is to be a hat, and not something else such as a…erm.. such as a “Not A Hat”, if it is to be a hat, then it must face the right direction. For, if you do not go in the direction that a hat is facing, then you are clearly going to live out your days … in the opposing direction… to er… the one in which your hat is facing. Do you see what I mean ?”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Yes.” replied Pooh. Then he thought about it. “On second thoughts, no. Not even a bit.”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Rabbit began to lose patience for, if the truth be told, Rabbit had even confused himself by what he had said. He drew a deep breath and said impatiently: “A hat, Pooh, is not a hat unless it is facing the correct way. And your hat is facing the wrong way. I suggest you get a hat which is facing the right way. Yours is Back to Front.”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“You mean Front to Back?” suggested Pooh.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“No I do not!” exploded Rabbit. “Back to Front ! BACK TO FRONT ! I suggest you go and see Owl about it. Owl is wise. He will know what to do. Good day, Pooh.”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Good day, Rabbit” said Pooh and turned on his heels and disappeared along the forest path, leaving a very cross Rabbit behind.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">As Pooh wandered in the wood he felt troubled by the advice of his two dearest friends. So he decided to find a Quiet Spot and to sit down and have a Serious Think. By chance, the Quiet Spot he chose was also a place he knew had a hive filled with fresh honey in its lowest branches. So he had a Serious Think and a Midmorning Snack.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">A half an hour later, Pooh leapt up. “I’ve got it!” he exclaimed. “A hat is NOT a hat unless it faces the direction it wants to go. My hat is Back to Front. So I will simply need to go in the direction that my hat is facing. Then surely my hat will be a Proper Hat.”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">So, off he went, walking backwards into the forest, whistling merrily to himself, happy now that his hat was a hat and that it was pointing in the right direction.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Bump ! “Ouch!” cried Pooh as he bumped into a large oak tree. Clunk !Crash!””Oh, dear!” moaned Pooh as he fell backwards over a fence. “Bother!” complained Pooh has he tripped backwards over the root of an old Elm.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">And so it went on. As Pooh went on his way, he mused over the difficulty of going about and around and along in the direction of a hat that knew where it was going. “It might very well be forwards for the hat, but it is most certainly backwards for Pooh!” he moaned to himself. “It certainly is not something I would like to…” Plop ! Plonk ! Crump ! Crash. Clump ! And Pooh was upside down and rolling down into a dell covered fortunately in soft, springy moss. Following head over hooves was Eyeore whom Pooh had happened to back into just as he was taking a Gloomy, Standing Doze. Both Bear and Donkey ended in a heap of yellow and grey at the bottom of the dell.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“I AM very sorry, Eyeore. I think I must have missed you there on the path.”<br>“Missed me ? Missed ME ? “grumbled Eyeore. “I really don’t think so. No one ever misses me. Besides I think you most surely hit me. Still, I suppose it is, after all, not such a bad idea to go backwards. Then you have to say goodbye to all of the things you’ve just said hello to, and you can’t really see what is up ahead, because it is really behind you !”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Pooh and Eyeore picked themselves up and sighed. “I beg your pardon ?” said Pooh.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Granted” said Eyeore.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“But there really must be a way that I could wear a hat that is pointing in the direction that it wants to go AND for me to be able to point there as well!”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Oh dear.” sighed Eyeore. “You really do want to go forwards ?”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Boldly forwards” announced Pooh. “Most definitely, most sincerely, most positively forwards.”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Then,” began Eyeore, “You will have to turn yourself around – one hundred and eighty degrees.”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Will I ?” asked Pooh.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Eyeyore sighed a long sigh. “I am afraid so. I am sorry to be the one to tell you. I mean, I wouldn’t expect you… I wouldn’t expect anyone to listen to a suggestion from me. But I might as well suggest it… it does pass the time … and I think it is going to rain. You need to turn around Pooh. Hold onto your hat and … turn around. But it probably won’t work anyway.”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">So, heeding the advice of his friend, Pooh took hold of his hat, leapt into the air and spun round, a full hundred and eighty degrees. He gripped the blue cap tightly, so that, though it was a Bear of Very Little Brain who turned about one way, the Blue Hat spun about in exactly the opposite direction !</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Pooh breathed a huge sigh of relief.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Thankyou, Eyeore.” said Pooh, and he set off into the Wood.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Bother ! Bother ! Bother!” said Pooh a few moments later, as Eyeore appeared to become smaller, for Pooh was once again following the direction of his hat. “it doesn’t seem to have made any difference at all. Goodbye Eyeore.”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Goodbye, Pooh” said Eyeore now so small he was almost out of sight.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Several bashes, crashes, smashes and several bumps later, Pooh firmly decided that it was time to seek out Owl.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">It was late in the afternoon when a very weary, and slightly dizzy bear arrived at the Wolery. Owl was asleep and did not take kindly to being woken up so early in the day.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“There’s nothing for it,” said Pooh to himself. “After all, this is a Very Serious Hat Emergency.”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Good afternoon, Owl” Pooh called at the top of his voice. A shuffle came from within the Wolery. A grumble and another shuffle.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Whooooh, is it ?” came a voice from deep inside.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“It is I, of course, Pooh.” Said Pooh. ” Owl, I am extremely sorry to disturb your afternoon nap. I do like a snooze myself at this time of the day. After some tea, of course. However, I am in sore need of your wise advice.”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">At the sound of the word “wise”, Owl’s frown softened. He did like it when someone referred to him as “wise”. For that was of course, completely true but it was odd how seldom other people ever said it. In a few seconds, Owl had emerged from his house, stretched his feathers and yawned.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Owl frowned again. “Now, Pooh, what is it that… Good Heavens, where on earth has your face gone ?”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Pooh was of course, facing in the direction his hat wanted to go, so he had his back to owl. With the brim of the hat facing behind, Owl was certain that Pooh’s face had vanished.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“My face has not gone anywhere” said Pooh in a huff. ” On second thoughts, what I mean to say it that my face has gone everywhere. I shall turn around and you shall see it.”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">So he did. And there he was. Owl hooted with relief.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“That’s better,” said Owl. “Now what is it that I can do for you, Pooh, in your fine new blue hat that you are wearing Back to Front ?”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“That’s it !” cried Pooh. “That is just it ! My hat is Back to Front which means that, for it to be a hat I have to go in the direction it wants to go which is Front to Back. Which is no good at all. I am tired and I am dizzy. I am weary of everything I leave behind getting smaller and I am tired of bumping into things. Piglet was no help. Rabbit was no help. And Eyeore was no help. Owl, I am at my wit’s end! I need your wisdom.”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Owl smiled to himself. He did like it when people needed his wisdom.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Pooh told Owl of his adventures wih the hat. Owl listened carefully. When Pooh had finished, Owl stepped forward.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">He drew up his brows and thought. He thought for a very long time indeed.<br>“Well Pooh,” he finally began. “The problem is this: you are wearing your hat Back to Front. But for a hat to be a hat it must point in the right direction, which is most certainly not backwards but forwards. Now, Piglet told you that you were Back to Front. Which is not correct. Not correct at all. It is not you that is Back to Front, Pooh, but your hat.”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“What a relief!” said Pooh.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“No interruptions. please”, grumbled Owl, who was only just about keeping up with himself as it was. “Now, Rabbit told you that a hat is not a hat unless it is facing in the right direction. That is true. But a hat is really only a hat if it is facing in the direction that you, the wearer of the hat want to go. A hat, so to speak does not want to go anywhere. It merely sits upon your head and waits for you, Pooh Bear, to decide where it is that YOU want to go.”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Ah, I see”. said Pooh, not seeing at all.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“And finally” Owl continued. “Eyeore suggested you needed to turn around in order to face the right direction – the direction of your hat. But it was not you that needed to turn around to meet your hat, it was your hat that needed to turn around to meet YOU. I think we are now clear and have solved the problem.”<br>Owl breathed out a sigh of satisfaction at his logic and wisdom.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Are we ? Have we ?” asked Pooh, who was now getting rather hungry.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Pooh,” said Owl. “Now I want you to do exactly as I tell you. Stand very still. Take hold of your hat by the brim with your left Paw. I shall count to three. On “three” I want you to turn the hat around and, whatever you do, do not turn yourself around. Am I making myself clear?”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Pooh summoned up all of the thinking he could, and said: “Perfectly clear, Owl.”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Very well then. Take hold of the brim with your left paw.”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Pooh followed Owl’s instructions.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“On my mark – one, two, three – TURN !”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Pooh took hold of the brim of the blue cap and turned it around.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“And stop!” Owl said finally. “There, one hat facing in the right direction, and one Pooh Bear facing in the right direction.”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Thank you, Owl” said Pooh, thankfully, “You truly are a very wise bird.”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“That is true” confirmed Owl, “Now if you don’t mind, I have to return to my studies.” Owl yawned, turned about and headed back into the Wolery in search of his soft straw bed. “Goodnight… I mean, good day.”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“Goodbye, Owl” replied Pooh and set off gaily in search of his house, a jar of honey and an afternoon snooze.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">It truly was wonderful to be facing in the same direction as his hat wanted to go.</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“This really is much, much, better.” Pooh said to himself as he went happily along in the heat of the afternoon sunshine. “Going forwards is really much, much better than going backwards!”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Then he stopped for a moment and thought which, for a Bear of Very Little Brain, he did remarkably often. “Yes indeed, he said, “Forwards is much more agreeable. But I have had a marvellous adventure today. And I suppose I never would have had such a wonderful adventure if I hadn’t been going backwards!”</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The End</span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></font></p><p style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></font></p></div></div></div><br>On Friday, 11 December 2015, Daniel Mezick 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 bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
It appears the conversation about Eeyore and Tigger (et al) is fully
authorized. <br>
<br>
Jeff Aiken appears to taking up the Eeyore character-role (with some
apologies.) <br>
<br>
He also appears to be drafting me into a role. Ditto for you. <br>
<br>
I'm investigating this Tigger character.<br>
<br>
Some tidbits:<br>
"
In <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Adventures_of_Winnie_the_Pooh" title="The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" target="_blank">The New Adventures
of Winnie the Pooh</a></i>, Tigger is often well-meaning but
usually does more harm than good. "<br>
<br>
"
It is also shown that Tigger will jump in to help without thinking
about the danger to himself. "<br>
<br>
"
Tigger's birthday is believed to be in October."<br>
<br>
"
he often thinks of himself as being handsome"<br>
<br>
"
Tigger is always filled with great energy and optimism, and though
always well-meaning, he can also be mischievous, and his actions
have sometimes led to chaos and trouble for himself and his friends.
"<br>
<br>
Hmm. Pretty good. <br>
<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigger#Personality_traits" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigger#Personality_traits</a><br>
<br>
Daniel <br>
<br>
<div>On 12/11/15 11:31 AM, Harold Shinsato
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite">
<img name="15191e9704d5c350_imgthumb16" src="cid:part2.01080607.05050708@newtechusa.net" style="width:186px;min-height:186px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px" title="http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Tigger" alt="Image result for tigger" border="0" width="186" align="middle" height="186"><br>
<br>
"A wonderful thing is a Tigger;<br>
A Tigger's a wonderful thing.<br>
Their tops are made out of rubber,<br>
their bottoms are made out of spring<br>
They're bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, bouncy,<br>
fun, fun, fun, fun, fun,<br>
The most wonderful thing<br>
about Tiggers is:<br>
I'm the only one!"<br>
<br>
I definitely experience you, Daniel, in many ways as a "Tigger". A
"Trigger".<br>
<br>
Is it a role you're being drafted into? Is it a role you're
playing with?<br>
<br>
Harold<br>
<br>
<br>
<div>On 12/10/15 5:22 PM, Daniel Mezick
via OSList wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite">
Am I the Trigger character then?<br>
<br>
<div>On 12/10/15 4:59 PM, Jeff Aitken
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite">
<p dir="ltr">Sure! I'm sorry to be an Eeyore this week.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Jeff</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 10, 2015 1:49 PM, "Daniel
Mezick" <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','dan@newtechusa.net');" target="_blank">dan@newtechusa.net</a>>
wrote:<br type="attribution">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> OK. Good one. Like.<br>
<br>
But wait. Aren't those similarities just really juicy?
What about those?<br>
<br>
<div>On 12/10/15 4:36 PM, Jeff Aitken wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite">
<p dir="ltr">As Harrison often says, these other folks
work way too hard...</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 10, 2015 1:21 PM,
"Jeff Aitken" <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','r.jeff.aitken@gmail.com');" target="_blank">r.jeff.aitken@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br type="attribution">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p dir="ltr">Hi Dan,</p>
<p dir="ltr">This may be a difference: </p>
<p dir="ltr">Easy to facilitate such that the
facilitator can take a nap, pick up coffee cups,
and hold space in the hotel bar until the
closing which requires a higher level of
attention?</p>
<p dir="ltr">: )</p>
<p dir="ltr">Jeff</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 10, 2015 12:21 PM,
"Daniel Mezick via OSList" <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','oslist@lists.openspacetech.org');" target="_blank"></a><a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','oslist@lists.openspacetech.org');" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>>
wrote:<br type="attribution">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Not to
mention the 100% present-tense, "here and
now" orientation of both Open Space and GR
Conferences<br>
<br>
<div>On 12/10/15 3:15 PM, Daniel Mezick via
OSList wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite"> What's Open Space
got to do with Group Relations?<br>
<br>
Wait. What is Group Relations? <br>
<br>
It's this, and this: <br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENHO1yUtCRo" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENHO1yUtCRo</a><br>
<a href="http://www.tavinstitute.org/what-we-offer/group-relations/" target="_blank">http://www.tavinstitute.org/what-we-offer/group-relations/</a><br>
<br>
So: What's Open Space got to do with Group
Relations?<br>
<br>
Probably nothing, right?<br>
<br>
Wait. Let's inspect some of the facts:<br>
<br>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Open Space
events?</p>
</td>
<td style="width:67.5pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="68">
<p class="MsoNormal">Group
Relations events?</p>
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</tr>
<tr>
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<p class="MsoNormal">100%
Experiential Learning</p>
</td>
<td style="width:60.3pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="60">
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes</p>
</td>
<td style="width:67.5pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="68">
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes</p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="width:2.05in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="148">
<p class="MsoNormal">Very lightly
structured</p>
</td>
<td style="width:60.3pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="60">
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes</p>
</td>
<td style="width:67.5pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="68">
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width:2.05in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="148">
<p class="MsoNormal">Potentially
triggering</p>
</td>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yes</p>
</td>
<td style="width:67.5pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="68">
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width:2.05in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="148">
<p class="MsoNormal">About
leadership and authority</p>
</td>
<td style="width:60.3pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="60">
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes</p>
</td>
<td style="width:67.5pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="68">
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width:2.05in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="148">
<p class="MsoNormal">An exercise
in self-organization</p>
</td>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yes</p>
</td>
<td style="width:67.5pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="68">
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width:2.05in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="148">
<p class="MsoNormal">Self-selecting
groups</p>
</td>
<td style="width:60.3pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="60">
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes</p>
</td>
<td style="width:67.5pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="68">
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width:2.05in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="148">
<p class="MsoNormal">Strictly
opt-in participation</p>
</td>
<td style="width:60.3pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="60">
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes</p>
</td>
<td style="width:67.5pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="68">
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width:2.05in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="148">
<p class="MsoNormal">Possessing a
“spectator sport”
dimension..watching others
watching, etc</p>
</td>
<td style="width:60.3pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="60">
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes</p>
</td>
<td style="width:67.5pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="68">
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width:2.05in;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="148">
<p class="MsoNormal">Insanely
efficient as a learning device</p>
</td>
<td style="width:60.3pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="60">
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes</p>
</td>
<td style="width:67.5pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt" valign="top" width="68">
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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<br>
Who else has attended a Group Relations
conference? <br>
<br>
It is a fact that Group Relations theory
and practice deeply informs the structure
of Prime/OS, which in turn is the basis of
OSA:<br>
<a href="http://www.Prime-OS.com" target="_blank">http://www.Prime-OS.com</a><br>
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<br>
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