Dear colleagues on the open space-list, three weeks ago I received the mail below from a fellow "Returned Peace Corps Volunteer" in response to my posting a statement from the National Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Association. I suggested to Blake, that I would like to post her letter to the list...she agreed...and then things got out of hand a little with me accompanying open space events all over. So now in my housecleaning this weekend I ran across it again and I think it is still timely. Take care michael in Berlin
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 11:56:55 EDT, mmmbl...@aol.com wrote: >Hello Michael, >Thanks for the RPCV material. I am one too, Fiji (93-95), so am delighted >you added it to the OSlist. > >In way of introduction, I live on the coast of Oregon, a management >trainer/consultant, who dropped out of corporate life in my mid-40s and >joined the PC. Was a 'management planner and advisor' in the Fiji Islands. I >was 'helping' the villages plan their projects a little more efficiently and >learning a great deal about myself and my own culture. Nowadays it is a >little lonely explaining my beliefs there were so eloquently written by the >RPCV board. I was called a communist by my neighbor. Thanks for the help. >It is sad that we are considered un-American when we speak of empathy and >understanding. However, I have come to believe that the dialog about who the >US is in the world will happen. It is just not the right time. The analogy >I think of is a battered woman (or man). After the attack, the last thing >the person wants to think about is the other person's feelings or have >empathy for them, the batterer. Protection, safety, healing needs to take >place first. The US is in such a place and I don't want to add to blaming >the victim...it doesn't serve anyone. In time the dialog will open to a >wider audience and deeper healing will take place. > >I like your postings to the list...always know there will be a golden nugget >in it. >What are you doing in Europe? > >Blake Mills (a woman with a man's name) Michael M Pannwitz Draisweg 1 12209 Berlin, Germany FON +49 - 30-772 8000 FAX +49 - 30-773 92 464 www.michaelMpannwitz.de To subscribe to the oslist, send the following message (and nothing but the message): "SUBSCRIBE OSLIST" to lists...@listserv.boisestate.edu SUBJECT field should be left BLANK ===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE=================== Michael M Pannwitz Draisweg 1 12209 Berlin, Germany FON +49 - 30-772 8000 FAX +49 - 30-773 92 464 www.michaelMpannwitz.de To subscribe to the oslist, send the following message (and nothing but the message): "SUBSCRIBE OSLIST" to lists...@listserv.boisestate.edu SUBJECT field should be left BLANK * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
