Chris, I love it. If I imagine passing on this truth to the "logically framed" national planners of my main client's Rural Development Projekt in central Mozambique... I can image it could have subversive effects ;-)
In any case I immedeately forwarded it to our "nucleo de consultoria". Thank you. Bernd On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:08:29 -0800, Chris Corrigan wrote: Just to show you how much this list appreciates poetry, I'll throw one right back at you. I didn't write this, but I love the way it reminds me of what happens in Open Space: The Métier of Blossoming By Denise Levertov Fully occupied with growing--that's the amaryllis. Growing especially at night: it would take only a bit more patience than I've got to sit keeping watch with it till daylight; the naked eye could register every hour's increase in height. Like a child against a barn door, proudly topping each year's achievement, steadily up goes each green stem, smooth, matte, traces of reddish purple at the base, and almost imperceptible vertical ridges running the length of them: Two robust stems from each bulb, sometimes with sturdy leaves for company, elegant sweeps of blade with rounded points. Aloft, the gravid buds, shiny with fullness. One morning--and so soon!--the first flower has opened when you wake. Or you catch it poised in a single, brief moment of hesitation. Next day, another, shy at first like a foal, even a third, a fourth, carried triumphantly at the summit of those strong columns, and each a Juno, calm in brilliance, a maiden giantess in modest splendor. If humans could be that intensely whole, undistracted, unhurried, swift from sheer unswerving impetus! If we could blossom out of ourselves, giving nothing imperfect, withholding nothing! Chris --- CHRIS CORRIGAN Consultation - Facilitation Open Space Technology Bowen Island, BC, Canada http://www.chriscorrigan.com [email protected] > -----Original Message----- > From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Douglas > D. Germann, Sr. > Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 12:17 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: An OS-related poem > > To my good friends-- > > Here is a poem you might find useful in your work, or at least enjoyable. > If you use it, provide attribution, if you please. > > (I am a bit anxious about posting this here, not wanting to seem to be > promoting anything; I hope you see this as connected to our OST work. > Thanks for your indulgence.) > > :-Doug. > > ----Forwarded Message(s)---- > > Footprints in the Wind/sm # 355 > > ooOOOoo > o o > Each day: > Touch your height > Touch your depth > Touch your breadth > See how big > Is the > Open space > You are. > o o > ooOOOoo > > Please pass it on. > > :-Doug. > > By Douglas D. Germann, Sr. c Copyright 2003, Learning Works, > Incorporated. All rights reserved. Easy reprint permissions: > [email protected] or 574/255-0022. > Archived at http://www.FootprintsintheWind.com > Please publish in your print or electronic periodical, with the > above info. > > If you want on or off this list, please reply to this address. > > ----End Forwarded Message(s)---- > > * > * > ========================================================== > [email protected] > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of [email protected], > Visit: > > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
