"How do I love thee...Let me count the ways." Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Tomorrow, it will already be 2 weeks since the Berlin WOSonOS began. I should know this by now, the tug in your heart that you feel weeks and months later when you're back home and you can still feel the memories of how it felt (your body, your mind, your heart) to be in Open Space in those wonderful conversations and stories with passion so bountiful, energy high, friendships deep even though often meeting for the first time face to face. I am still in awe of this world-wide community ...the sharing, the authenticity, the joys and the intense emotions, the celebration and the meaningful purpose it ignites inside each of us when we are together. This same magic is present in our communications on the OS list, on NING, through personal emails, by phone and everywhere. Such gratitude I feel to be part of this knowing that each in our own way, we are also helping people open space everywhere in small and big communities around the globe inviting them to discover each other just as we do. Making the world better always starts there when ordinary people connect with each other, just being themselves and sharing what they are passionate about. In the end what was and is always beautiful is that space was opened a few weeks ago -- a space with a big empty middle. People quickly came into that middle to create something from nothing and that something became great. It's what happened in Taiwan, in Berlin and happens everywhere, never the same, always special in its own way. Next year: Chile and Juan Luis and a growing crowd of helpers who welcomes us with open arms and open heart to South America and his home country, and then after that London with Mathilda, who in her beautiful improv way carried a collective invitation from the UK giving us a preview of what awaits in the beautiful capital of theatre. So now as I start a brand new day, I just want to say it straight out, something we don't always say straight out: I LOVE all of you...those I met who I want to reach out to and hug right now (from Paris, to Nepal, to Chile, to Portugal, to Germany, to Russia, to the US and Canada, to Taiwan, to Italy and on and on) and those I don't even know because I know I would enjoy you too. Yes the man with the hat, with martini in hand started all this almost by accident 25 years ago but then in life, we learn there are no accidents. What happened was meant to happen and it created this...the gift that never stops giving, that just grows and grows into a big Global circle which we call home. Suzanne -- Suzanne Daigle NuFocus Strategic Group 7159 Victoria Circle University Park, FL 34201 FL 941-359-8877; CT 203-722-2009 www.nufocusgroup.com [email protected] * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
