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Great concert by Willie Nile and friends yesterday in Kafe Antzokia in Bilbao.
"...The US, with all the good, the bad and the in between"


Would love to get to a site with their lyrics. For exampleI´d love to read the ones on "Yesterday´s dreams",...


....and here "One guitar", an anthem, guest in a concert by James Maddock and friends. Great things when passion joins responsibility :-)!

It is the middle of the night right in the middle of the street
It could be uptown, downtown but I can feel the beat
There is a marchin' drum there is a song unsung
It could be your dream, my dream it's not the only one

I'm a soldier marchin' in an army
Got no gun to shoot
But what I got is one guitar
I got this one guitar

I see the risin' smoke I hear a heartbreak joke
Hey all my brothers and sisters I think it's time we spoke
I've only got six strings but like a bell they ring
Its like a jet plane, insane crashin' in my brain

I'm a soldier marchin' in an army
Got no gun to shoot
But what I got is one guitar
I got this one guitar
And it goes... na na na...

So if you get knocked down you gotta take a stand
For all the outcast, dead last who need a helping hand
So get your tambourines and turn your arms up loud
And raise your voices, voices up above this crowd

[ These are One Guitar Lyrics on http://www.lyricsmania.com/ ]

Thx, @WillieNile!

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Flower of Scotland: passion, freedom and responsibility. Open Space!

EHZkoek ondo azaltzen dute hemen

O flower of Scotland When will we see your like again That fought and died for Your wee bit hill and glen And stood against him Proud Edward's army And sent him homeward Tae think again The hills are bare now And autumn leaves lie thick and still O'er land that is lost now Which those so dearly held And stood against him Proud Edward's army And sent him homeward Tae think again Those days are passed now And in the past they must remain But we can still rise now And be the nation again That stood against him Proud Edward's army And sent him homeward Tae think again

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Source of the words: http://www.flowerofscotland.org.

Best wishes from the Basque Country!

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What do you desire?

Alan Watts: What do you desire? from Omer K on Vimeo.

What do you desire? What makes you itch?

What sort of a situation would you like?

Let’s suppose, I do this often in vocational guidance of students, they come to me and say, well, "we’re getting out of college and we have the faintest idea what we want to do". So I always ask the question, "what would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?"

Read here about Alan Watts, the one speaking his ideas on the video.

Another one by Alan Watts, vía JM Toledano... Work as play (with subtitles in Spanish).




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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,

Eleder

BM31_Bilbao: Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Creativity

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BERLIN CHANGE DAYS

TRANSCRIPTION OF HOLGER NAUHEIMER'S INVITATION (2010-VI-23)


Dear colleagues,

we are excited that our first announcement to the Berlin Change Days received so much attention (see the programme here). Many people have already registered or indicated that they will come. With this email, I would like to alert you that the very early booking period ends in 8 days. So, if you have made up your mind already - this would be a good time to register.

The Berlin Change Days were launched in November 2009 with the aim of bringing together consultants, managers and other practitioners who are passionate about positive change in individuals and organizations. Keynotes and workshops deal with very different aspects of change, e.g. new, unusual approaches, methods and tools. We use an open format which allows for different, creative ways of presenting the topics.

Our vision is to contribute to people's learning about how to start a positive change process in their organization, community, and maybe in their life.

Accordingly, the profile of participants varies, from consultants to HR and other managers, representatives of NGOs, students and scientists, etc. There will be an English and a German track. Whoever is interested - be welcome to the Berlin Change Days 2010!

With best regards
Holger Nauheimer

If you were looking for a good learning and experience, this is a goo choice, sure!
Best wishes,

Eleder

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MANIFESTO FOR CHILDREN (E. Paul Torrance on a CREATIVE LIFE)

As someone passionate about creativity I've spent much time exploring the subject and many authors' ideas. E. Paul Torrance was acclaimed as one of the main experts. One day I came by this piece. I got impressed by it, printed it and pasted it on my work table. Whenever I was kind of upset, reading it and dreaming it's absolutely true used to energize me.

I don't any more work at the same office, but I have since had in mind I should recover this piece and have it always at hand. I believe in it nowadays more than ever before and today is the day I recover it for this blog.

E. Paul Torrance MANIFESTO FOR CHILDREN

Don't be afraid to fall in love with something and pursue it with intensity.

Know, understand, take pride in, practice, develop, exploit
and enjoy your greatest strengths.

Learn to free yourself from the expectations of others and to walk away from the games they impose on you.

Free yourself to play your own game.

Find a great teacher or mentor who will help you.

Learn the skills of interdependence.

Don't waste energy trying to be well rounded.

Enjoy yourself,

Eleder
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