Amazing Alan, thanks for sharing! From my iPhone
> On 15/08/2014, at 16:30, Suzanne Daigle <[email protected]> wrote: > > Alan, what a gift to share this with us. I was mesmerized ... Takes wave > riding to a whole other level, to another stratosphere. > > Thank you! > Suzanne > >> On Aug 12, 2014 9:34 AM, "Alan Stewart" <[email protected]> wrote: >> G’day All >> >> >> >> Here are items which resonated strongly with me and may do so with you too. >> In my case I had the good fortune to meet an Apollo astronaut in person, >> Charlie Duke, in the mid 70s. And have also circumvented our little planet, >> 3rd from the sun, several times – while at a lower height than outer space >> travellers. >> >> >> >> I wonder if you also see that perspectives of ‘high fliers’ – see also my >> Conversare blog post on this – have salience for our current times? Perhaps >> particularly for those of us who hold space (co-create contexts) for >> conversations that matter among whoever comes? >> >> >> >> This below (which I transcribed) is excerpted from an interview of Chris >> Hadfield, Canadian born astronaut, on Late Night Live (an Australian Radio >> National program), hosted by Phillip Adams on Wednesday 6 August 2014. >> >> >> >> Chris is the author of An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth. >> >> >> >> http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/an-astronaut27s-guide-to-life3a-chris-hadfield/5653184 >> >> >> >> http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2014/08/lnl_20140806_2205.mp3 >> >> >> >> >> >> “… I was up (on the space station) for five months and it really gave time >> to think and time to look at the world, actually to steal 90 minutes at one >> point and just float by the window and watch the world, go round the world >> once with nothing to do but ponder it. >> >> >> >> And I think probably the biggest personal change was a loss of the sense of >> the line between ‘us’ and ‘them’. >> >> >> >> It’s really we sort of teach it to our children, you know. Don’t talk to >> strangers, this is us. This is our whatever – our family, our house, our >> neighours, our relatives, your school. >> >> It slowly grows where the line between us and them is. Um but to – I’ve been >> around the world thousands of times, 2, 593 times - and that line we impose >> on ourselves of where us ends and them starts, just keeps diminishing and it >> wasn’t conscious. I noticed maybe a third of the way into my half year stint >> up there that I just started referring to everybody as ‘us'. Unconsciously >> there was some sort of transition in my mind that ‘Hey, we’re all in this >> together.’ >> >> >> >> And I think you come across any city in Australia and you see the pattern of >> the downtown and the suburbs and the surrounding farms and the water and the >> rail and the communications, just the standard human pattern. And then if >> you just wait until you cross the Pacific – takes about 25 minutes and then >> you come across the Americas and there’s that exact same pattern again. And >> then you wait another 20 minutes and you come across northern Africa – and >> there’s that exact same pattern again. >> >> >> >> And we solve the same problems the same way, all over the world. It’s just >> ‘us’ and everybody just wants some grace and better chances for their >> children and a chance to laugh, understand it all. And that inclusionary >> feeling was all pervasive and unavoidable, having seen the world the way >> I’ve seen it and it was part of my motivations in doing my best to share it >> when I came back.” >> >> >> >> Looking forward >> >> >> >> Go well >> >> >> >> Alan >> >> >> >> Alan Stewart, PhD >> Social Artist >> Facilitator of conversations that matter and participatory fun >> Based in Adelaide and operating throughout Austral-Asia >> Em: [email protected] >> Web and new book: www.multimindsolutions.com >> Mob: +61413848680 >> Blog: Conversare >> Tw: @alpalstewart >> Comedy: http://www.takeoutcomedy.com/site/comedians/ >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> "If there's dancing count me in" >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OSList mailing list >> To post send emails to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: >> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org >> > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
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