Dear HO, Warm birthday wishes and blessings for ongoing joy and vitality, and I hope you had a stellar birth day!
Thank You Very Much for all the gifts of your birth, and now these latest musings "In Awe of the Sacred." I am especially touched by your sentence "*Caring creates time, meaningful time.*" I have been thinking & talking with colleagues a lot lately about the "care" part of healthcare & healthcare education, and about how time and attention are necessary elements of care...and truly, allowing for "meaningful time" can be powerful elemental medicine. Ashley Cooper and I were just chatting last week about you, and the profound gift that Open Space has been for each of us (*I had just rediscovered a great interview she did with you in 2014 - transcribed here: http://tyhallock.blogspot.com/2014/02/harrison-owen-interview-inviting-flow.html <http://tyhallock.blogspot.com/2014/02/harrison-owen-interview-inviting-flow.html>* ). We agreed that each of us felt like we were struck by lightening (in a good way!) when we first encountered the practice / values / experience of Open Space. Or another way to describe it would be of stumbling unexpectedly into a deep sense of being at home. Which to me is another one of the abundant names of god. I also very much appreciate your framing of Open Space as "*not a method, procedure or process. It is pure invitation, and there is nothing there. It is all question with not an answer in sight.*" Open Space and zen koan meditation, which I am a fan of, have lots in common as I'm sure you know - both ways of "sitting the question , " both deeply playful, seriously hilarious, liberatory in a right here right now way, so full of life and also not afraid of death. Like yerself, dear Harrison. The latest koan that my teacher-friend John gave a group of us recently: "*There is nothing I dislike.*" After sitting with it for a while, it did Open up into a sacred Space of 'this, here, is the right place; right now is the right time; this life is my right life.' love and thanks from VERY dark and drippy Seattle (where it is still Dec 2 for a little while longer) Christy 2611 NE 125th St, Ste 240 <http://www.corechiropracticseattle.com> Seattle, WA 98125 Clinic: 206.708.7172 <(206)%20708-7172> Cell: 206.399.0868 <(206)%20399-0868> *"Every moment of freedom is amplified when we're together." - John Tarrant, Roshi <https://www.pacificzen.org/teachers/john-tarrant/>* On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 4:36 AM, Harrison Owen via OSList < oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote: > I have been asked on occasions (by myself and others) what did I do – > exactly. Truthfully I’ve never really had a good answer, but I’ve been > trying. The latest effort may be viewed at http://openspaceworld.com/AweO > fSacred_HarrisonOwen.pdf Please share if you care. > > > > Harrison > > > > Winter Address > > 7808 River Falls Dr. > > Potomac, MD 20854 > > 301-365-2093 <(301)%20365-2093> > > > > Summer Address > > 189 Beaucauire Ave > > Camden, ME 04843 > > 207 763-3261 <(207)%20763-3261> > > > > Websites > > www.openspaceworld.com > > www.ho-image.com > > >
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