Hey, Raffi - Of course I support you on doing anything that has heart and meaning for you.
But I echo what I think are Funda's words - if you do not feel community, be community. To me, the OSLIST feels very much like a community - lots of people I richly enjoy, some people I do not agree with (and still, I usually enjoy them), a few people who make me crazy (mostly crazy-good, sometimes crazy-have-to-take-a-breath), lots of support for my different ways of being, a sense of connection, a sense of shared values even through different cultures and experiences, also education, enrichment... If you feel that Harrison might step aside in order to enable something else or someone else to come forth, could it be (this is just a guess) that you are creating the feeling that he is in the way of / preventing something? (hmmm - if so, sounds like you give him a lot of power... ;o) ) If this community / our Open Space is a circle, and every one of us (both list 'talkers' and list 'witnesses', both the multiply-experienced and the very-new-to-OST) is in the circle, holding the principles and law in mind, is this not community? Can anybody be in the way of anything different happening when each of us has a choice to do or act or watch or listen or leave or return? And hmm. So some people love every word you say and some feel prickly or whatever. Do you want a community that just always says 'oh raffi every word you say is like a jewel', or do you want difference and diversity and learning through the struggles and joys of communicating the challenging stuff? I suspect that you are committed to the learning. And so are so many of us who hold space on this list. So I hope you stay, and if you leave, I'll know that you are using the Law of Two Feet (if you are neither learning nor contributing...) because you are committed to being fully engaged and need to find that in another setting/community. And that is something I salute in you... Warmly, Lisa ___________________________ L i s a H e f t Consultant, Facilitator, Educator O p e n i n g S p a c e 2325 Oregon Berkeley, California 94705-1106 USA +01 510 548-8449 [email protected] www.openingspace.net * * ========================================================== [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
