<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Love this Christy. I'm at a loss. Chris was dear to me in those years as well sharing poems and beautiful images and mutual friends. And I too never got to meet him in person. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Chris<br><br>___________<div>CHRIS CORRIGAN</div><div><a href="http://www.chriscorrigan.com">www.chriscorrigan.com</a></div><div><br></div></div><div><br>On Sep 21, 2017, at 4:50 PM, Christy Lee-Engel via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear Birgitt.<br><br>I am so deeply sad to hear about Chris. It will be a regret of a lifetime that I never got to meet him in person.<br><br>Years
ago, Chris and Ashley Cooper and Eiwor and Jeff Aitken and I spent some
exquisite months together touching minds and hearts from our different
parts of the world, in the Open Space of Chris' long gone blog,
Metaphorest Walk.<br><br>Here is a poem he sent me when he decided to spend less time online and close his blog. So many blessings. So so sad.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>candlemas </b><br>for christy<br>Feb 3 2005<br><br><i>The project of building is the project of ten thousand lifetimes.<br>but looking deeply, we see it has already been realized.<br>The wonderful wheel of transformation is always leading us ahead.<br>Take my hand and you will see that we have been present together<br>for a long time in this wonderful existence</i> — Thich Nhat Hanh<br><br>placing in your hands a message<br>not sealed like an envelope, but open<br>like a flower:<br><br>i have arrived<br>i am home<br><br>home safe, home free<br><br>journeys there are<br>on the cliff-edge above the sea<br>that require leaving home,<br>that require their own ending<br><br>through my smoldering thickets i returned<br>to these exquisite ruddy stone garden walls,<br>stepped through the archway<br><br>beloved eyes met, beloved hands touched,<br>an ancient branch of seed pods was given me,<br>each pod the keeper of a fierce<br>& delicate rainbow flame.<br><i>did you not know</i>, she asked,<br><i>that this is yours,<br>that each flames’ life breath<br>arrives through you?</i><br><br>this anxiety today<br>moment of candlemas<br>home safe, home free<br>each breath a prayer<br>alight in gratitude<br>in transformation<br>a blessing sent<br>a blessing<br>received<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B5jq3odW7LCZT2FOTE5mRkw5ekE&revid=0B5jq3odW7LCZR0hwYjRUQVZXYTNtZ3NkVTRISmhYMGI4WEtjPQ" width="200" height="66"><br></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font size="2" color="#3d85c6"><span style="font-family:'times new roman',serif"><a href="http://www.corechiropracticseattle.com" target="_blank">2611 NE 125th St, Ste 240</a><br></span></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font size="2" color="#3d85c6"><span style="font-family:'times new roman',serif">Seattle, WA 98125 </span></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font size="2" face="times new roman, serif" color="#3d85c6">Clinic: 206.708.7172</font></div></div><div><font size="2" face="times new roman, serif" color="#3d85c6">Cell: 206.399.0868</font><i><span style="font-size:medium"><font size="3"><font face="garamond, serif" color="#999999"><span style="font-size:12.5px;border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></font></font></span></i><span><font size="2"><span style="font-family:'times new roman',serif"><i><font color="#0b5394"><br></font></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color:rgb(180,95,6)"></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 4:42 PM, Jeff Aitken via OSList <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Ah very sad. Thank you for posting the news Birgitt. Chris shared his remarkable creative soul with us and this was such a gift. Blessings on all touched by him.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Jeff<br>
San Francisco</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Sep 21, 2017 4:23 PM, "Birgitt Williams via OSList" <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.<wbr>org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">dear friends and colleagues,<div>I have not seen posts about the passing of our good friend Chris Weaver and so with deep respect and love for Chris, I note his passing here. Funeral will be Sunday in Asheville, North Carolina for this truly beautiful man who contributed so much to humanity, especially the youth....and to all of us who knew him.</div><div><br></div><div>Feeling such profound sadness,</div><div>Birgitt</div></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div class="m_1303589163819069744m_2342801767307861779gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span></p>
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