Wednesday, December 29, 2010

GIVE WHAT´S LEFT OF ME AWAY

Somone wrote to the OSLIST about her father´s death... Peggy Holman answered with this piece.

"I come late to offering condolences on your father's passing. When my mother died, someone, I don't remember who, gave me a poem that moved me.  I hope you find solace in it.
Peggy"

GIVE WHAT'S LEFT OF ME AWAY

When I die
Remember me with a smile and laughter.
If thoughts of me provoke no love,
Only sadness and tears,
I ask that I be soon forgotten.

Give what's left of me away
To children and old men who wait to die.
And if you must cry, cry for your brother
Who walks in grief beside you.
And when you need me,
Put your arms around anyone,
And give them what you need to give me.

I want to leave you something.
Something better than words or sounds.
Look for me in the people I've known or loved,
Or helped in some special way.
And if you cannot give me away,
Let me live in your eyes for awhile,
As well as in your mind.
You can love me most
By letting love live
Within the circle of your arms
Embracing the frightened ones.

Love doesn't die, people do.
So when all that's left of me is love,
Give me away.

            -- Jack Link

Monday, December 27, 2010

CHILD BIRTH ORGASM, best kept secret?



Enjoy life, enjoy openinng space to birth :-)!
  
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www.bm31-liburuak.blogspot.com (BM31 books)
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www.in-fluyendo.blogspot.com (Spanish)

Twitter: @Eleder_BM

Monday, December 20, 2010

BYRON KATIE, THE WORK AND OPEN SPACE

Another message came out for the OSLIST, just some minutes ago...


Hello open space friends around the big ball!
Last week I received some books by Byron Katie (www.thework.com).
Now I´m delighted reading one of them, "A thousand names for joy", in my daily train commuting. So good! So many similarities with open space! Did you know about it? If not, I´m sure you´ll love it...

Enjoy life :-)!
Eleder


BM31_Bilbao: Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Creativity
www.flowandshow.blogspot.com
www.bm31-liburuak.blogspot.com (BM31 books)
www.burumapak.blogspot.com (Basque)
www.in-fluyendo.blogspot.com (Spanish)

Twitter: @Eleder_BM

Friday, December 17, 2010

MUSEUM OF UNINTENDED USE






























inidea to CREA-CPS list:
inspiring?
http://www.museumofunintendeduse.com

Jack Fox answers:
I really like the Unintended Muse. The iPad and the plunger make a nice couple. Reminds me of Red Green: "If the girls don't find you handsome, they better find you handy." The trick here is to find a connection that doesn't suck. Who would have ever thought of propping up their plunger with an iPad.  What does a plunger and an ipad have in common, and why would anyone want to prop up their plunger anyway? Hmm... "I" one a handle and the other a name. That's why I'm a creative genius, don't even try. Now I can go to bed, thanks Marc.
jmf
What a great source, this list! What a great technology, distribution lists!

Best wishes,


Thursday, December 9, 2010

TRIP TO NEW YORK: OS Learning Experience and NYLBAO project

Harrison Owen wrote recently to the OSLIST to announce an OS learning session in NY:
Karen Davis, Ralph Copleman and Harrison Owen will be hosting an OS Learning Experience in New York between  January the 14th and the 17th.  It will be a good place to learn about Open Space, but that is just the beginning, the appetizer so to speak. The Main Course takes us into the world of application – and more specifically – How to enable Peace and High Performance for ourselves and our organizations. For all the details check out here...

I´m a long follower and starting facilitator of Open Space facilitator and after several events, the most recent of which I informed about here,  and having taken part in Wosonos Berlin 2010, it´s a good moment for me for learning from the most experienced. So I bought my plane tickets and reserved a place to sleep (here, about a mile from the venue, in International House).
Last news (Jan 3): Today I contacted through Sunni Brown with New York City VizThink people and we are planning to gather in one of their regular meet-ups, good news, really :-)!

I plan staying in NY January 11-18 and we´ll have some free days before the OS Learning Experience.As it´ll be my first time in the US and I´d like to know a bit about NYC through local people. I thought to try something that ensembles my passions and the people of the place. It could be an experiment called "NYC: passion, people and places".

It is not so long since I met my friend Greg Rivera in Bilbao and after having quite quickly felt him as a near-minded guy, we started to kid about NYLBAO project in our playful minds. A link between New York, the big and so admired city and Bilbao, our small city in South Europe through experiments involving community, education, art and the likes. Is fate making it real? We just enjoy keeping dreaming and playing...

Now I´d like you to think about any connections you have to NYC and involve you in this game: "NYC: passion, people and places". I love knowing new places and I love meeting new people and chatting and mainly listening to people´s stories (specially in my no so fluent English ;-).
So, I´m looking for some people who will be in NYC between January 11-18 and would like to meet just to conversate for a while in a place they love in NYC... Simple plan that, as OS itself, can open interesting and healing space for great emergence.
Be prepared to get surprised ;-)!

Those are some of the subjects I´m most interested in: work that matters/unjobbing; Open Space (sure!) and its apliccation to life; creativity; simple living; humour; community art; urban permaculture; city byking.... but I like overall listening to people that talk from their heart, about their hot topics/subects...

This trip to NYC invites me also to try again some singing in the street, in a similar way as we did in Bilbao some months ago. Want to watch the v-card we made?

Can you identify friends or acquaintances in NYC who would probably enjoy a long talk with someone sharing interests? If so, let me know, please, and let´s open a bit of space...

Enjoy life,

Friday, December 3, 2010

Eric Berlow: How complexity leads to simplicity




















A good recommendation,I guess, from a new acquaintance. Thanks @eukenebarrenetxea :-)!

Enjoy life!

Eleder
BM31_Bilbao: Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Creativity
Twitter: @Eleder_BM

WHO IS HARRISON OWEN?

Yesterday, 2th of december, Harrison Owen's birthday. Lots of messages to congratulate him in the OSLIST, thanks to his son Barry Owen's news. Among them I found the one by Lisa Heft deserving a post here... She wrote...
He's 
A  
Radiant 
Revolutionary
Inviting 
Sharing
Open Space
Near and far,

Openly and freely,
Worldwide, 
Expanding our
Now

For Harrison, on his birthday, with love to you, my friend,
Lisa
The concise words by Harrison to answer the amount of messages are also brilliant:
If you detect a warm glow emanating from Washington, DC – it is not just the usual political firestorm, it is me basking in the pleasure of your company and good wishes. We have had a lot of fun with more to come. Thanks for everything.

Harrison

Smart, isn't it? And everybody can subscribe it :-)!
Eleder
BM31_Bilbao: Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Creativity
Twitter: @Eleder_BM