Sooo great wishing all well in the concluding days. I'm off for the weekend. Congrats all for making this happen. Eager to continue one on one and OShotline whenever possible. A great big hug to Lucas and Michael. Skye
On Friday, July 10, 2015, Lucas Cioffi via OSList < [email protected]> wrote: > Good day, Everyone. > > All within one hour this morning, I had the great pleasure of speaking in > groups of 2 and 3 with people from Norway, German, Portugal, and > Australia. Waking up at 5:50am my time knocked me out of my regular > routine and gave me space to be present. > > After the audio and video chats, I was browsing some links that people > shared about their work during this morning's sessions. Then I started > searching through the OS List archives to find people I spoke with. The > email below jumped out at me, especially the video highlighted in yellow at > the bottom. Having met Alan Stewart yesterday, reading that email below > was quite a different experience for me than it was when he sent it a few > months ago. The difference this time is that I could actually hear him > reading this email to me in his warm and inviting tone, now that we had a > chance to have a conversation > > I've been on this list for about 6 years and have never attended a > WOSonOS. Hearing Alan mention the Marysville WOS2002 during a session > yesterday and the fondness with which he described it made me very curious > to learn more. The video he shared in yellow (below) easily communicates > how special that event was for all who attended. > > The OS community has been rolling with tremendous momentum for 20+ years > before I started subscribing to the list in '09. I always felt that I > missed the party, since so much has happened before I got here, but having > been on Tricia's OS Hotline events on Tuesdays over the past few months and > having participated in these online VOSonOS sessions over the past two > days, I get a sense of how active this community is right now–all the great > work and all the edges of the OS folks are currently exploring. > > Marysville was overcome by a devastating fire in 2009, seven years after > the video below. It's a reminder to me that the work of opening space is > both temporary and urgent. I look forward to the remaining two days of > VOSonOS and I also look forward to reading this list with a more personal > connection, now that I've been able to meet and learn from many of you over > the past two days. Have a great weekend, wherever you are. > > Lucas Cioffi > Founder, QiqoChat > Charlottesville, VA > Mobile: 917-528-1831 > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Alan Stewart via OSList <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> > Date: Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 7:50 PM > Subject: [OSList] This Was My Town [[Marysville] > To: World wide Open Space Technology email list < > [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> > > > G'day fellow participants at WOS2002 and All > > I 'happened' on this song <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0LpKT_-Kmw> > recently through hearing Greg Champion, a well known singer and song > writer <http://gregchampion.com.au/music/> in Australia, on our local > radio in Adelaide. > > For it captures the grief experienced when most of the lovely little town > of Marysville (near Melbourne) in which WOS2002 was held was destroyed in a > huge bushfire in 2009. > > > > After playing the song several times it came over to me as a beautifully > crafted and poignant reminder of the wondrous time which was had by those > who were fortunate and privileged to participate in this particular > international get together of OST practitioners. And of how ephemeral > life can be. > > The venue for our gathering, the majestic largely wooden construction > Marylands Hotel - in the heart of Marysville - suited our purposes > beautifully, not least as we all housed under one roof. One of my favourite > memories was going on a night walk in the nearby forest. > > There was nothing left of Marylands after the 2009 fire. > > A sense of this place, its setting, and the process of the WOS event can > be seen in this exquisite little video > <http://openspaceworld.ning.com/video/wosonosinoz-2002> made by David > Smith. > > Also featured in the video is the facilitator of the event, Fr Brian > Bainbridge. Brian, as many would recall fondly, was a staunch promoter of > OST and attended every WOS up until WOS2009 held in Taipei in Taiwan. Sadly > he died shortly after this. > > > > Please pass this on if you wish to others who you consider may appreciate > seeing and hearing it. > > Looking forward. > > Go well > > Alan > > Alan Stewart, PhD > www.multimindsolutions.com > Conversare.net <http://conversare.net> > Adelaide > > ‘If there’s dancing count me in.’ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] <javascript:;> > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > <javascript:;> > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > Past archives can be viewed here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > -- *Skye Hirst, PhD* President - The Autognomics Institute *Conversations in Radical Self-Knowing* www.autognomics.org @autognomics New Phone Number: 207-593-8074
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