Archive for June 3rd, 2014

Our mistake is to add on words

No words can capture the full meaning of meaning for the simple reason that whoever or whatever we speak about is so nuanced, so multifaceted that one thought or aspect leaves out its contraries and neighbors. Describe red and you leave out green and yellow. Perhaps our mistake is to add on words.

:- Doug.

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Life, too

Life, too, gets its living
Giving
So too the all there is

:- Doug.

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(even if it means giving away)

Don’t sell it, do it
(even if it means giving away)

:- Doug.

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Meet and potatoes

Open Space
In goes meat and potatoes
Out comes fruitfulness

:- Doug.

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The group does

In conversing any one can lead
Sometimes
The group does

:- Doug.

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gets its living giving

Giving that is relating
Resides in conversing
Conversing gets its living giving

:- Doug.

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Open Space is a pressure cooker

Open Space is a pressure cooker
Start with a raw pressing practical issue or opportunity
Throw in diverging hearts, heads, and hands
Toss in some passion to turn up the heat
Out comes responsibility and action

:- Doug.

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I don’t create the space

I don’t create the space
I don’t even open it
I invite you to do so

:- Doug.

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Are you hermits?

Are you hermits? No, so come together.

:- Doug.

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pressing practical issues and opportunities

Open Space gathers and concentrates hearts, minds, and hands to work on pressing practical issues and opportunities.

:- Doug.

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