Even if we dont throw a leave into the stream....it is an everevolving, selforganizing, neverthesame stream... mmp
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:35:17 -0400, Douglas D. Germann, Sr. wrote: >To my good friends-- > >Is it possible that what we are producing with our practice of open space >is exactly what we need to produce? > >Specifically, from time to time we sometimes lament the fact that there is >nothing "lasting" from an OST meeting--the organization on Monday becomes >again what it was last Monday, nothing seems to have changed. Yet perhaps >we did have a lasting impact. > >In meditation this morning, this thought came to me: "No as a matter of >fact we are not after continuing meetings of this group. We are after >people doing things. That may or may not mean meetings. It certainly does >not mean creaking organizations." > >People in this age have little energy for creating an organization. There >just is not time enough in the day to take on something that will require >our involvement for years. We are in the mode of sprinters not marathoners. >So what? If--1. Whatever Happens does some good and 2. the people do say >Yes, I remember a day when we did some good--are the only two things that >are accomplished, have we not done a lasting good? > >Any time we throw a leaf into the stream, or a drop of water, is it not a >new stream? > > :-Doug. Germann > Seeking people making community change. > >* >* >========================================================== >osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu >------------------------------ >To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, >view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: >http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > >To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: >http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist Michael M Pannwitz, boscop Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany FON ++49 - 30-772 8000 FAX ++49 - 30-773 92 464 www.michaelmpannwitz.de 125 Berliner open space-Veranstaltungen von 12 BegleiterInnen in 16 verschiedenen Bereichen: www.openspace-landschaft.de An der 155-köpfigen E-Gruppe "openspacedeutsch" interessiert? Enfach eine mail an mich. Schaut mal in die neue Open Space World Map, seit dem 17.8.2004 online www.openspaceworldmap.org * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
