Happy New Year folks. You remember Aine, my daughter. In September she said something about feeding monsters that, along with the profound collective forwarding power of the folks on this list, turned her into an international celebrity ( http://www.chriscorrigan.com/aine ). Well, she's back, with a repeat utterance of truth and clarity that shook me to my socks.
As we were gathering around our dining room table for the last meal of last year, adorned as it is by a little Siberian silk painting that Elena left there in August, we were giving thanks for all that was important to us and that had happened in 2001. Aine usually primes herself for these sorts of instantaneous essays by uttering her usual beginning: "Thank you for the love, for the trees, for the rocks..." She uses those words to get going and fill time while she dreams up the main event. Being a 4.5 year old jazz musician, she needs to prime the improvisational genius with a ritual recital of the head. So, after her standard vamp on the usual themes, she paused, a pregnant opening that actually presaged what she was about to say, and said very simply: "Thank you space, for everything." It was a statement that works of so many levels, that I am still reeling from its significance. Anyway, I offer it to all of you in the dark northern early days of 2002, as a kind of blessing/thank you for all that you, as a community, continue to be. Chris -- CHRIS CORRIGAN Consultation - Facilitation Open Space Technology http://www.chriscorrigan.com [email protected] RR 1 E-3 1172 Miller Road Bowen Island, BC Canada, V0N 1G0 phone (604) 947-9236 fax (604) 947-9238 * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
