Forwarding to the OS list. :-) > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Harrison Owen <vzeqxezy@verizon.net> > Subject: Re: [OSList] Happy 88th Harrison! > Date: December 2, 2023 at 10:03:23 AM PST > To: Peggy Holman <peggy@peggyholman.com> > > Thank you Peggy -- thanks you everybody. It has indeed been a great ride with more to come. > > ho > > 7808 River FAlls Drive > Potomac, MD 20854 > phone 301-365-2093 > > > On Saturday, December 2, 2023 at 12:50:01 PM EST, Peggy Holman via OSList <everyone@oslist.org> wrote: > > > Dear Harrison, > > Just a few words to celebrate you. We met in 1995 when a friend from Antioch University Seattle sent me an article from Training Magazine on Open Space Technology and I called you. It changed my life. You gave words and a framework to something I’d been playing with: the importance of random encounters for creativity and innovation — for “learning organizations" to flourish. Of course I joined the party. WE started this listserv. When you came to Seattle as part of your world tour with the idea of forming the Open Space Institute (OSI) in 1996, I was one of 7 who contributed $10 so we had the $70 required to apply for nonprofit status in the US. We quickly learned that our colleagues in Australia and Canada, who also formed OSI’s, expected that we add -US to our name. We did. And a network was acknowledged. > > All this is to say happy birthday Harrison. Thank you for being you. It has been a ride! May we continue to be present to what emerges as increasing numbers discover the challenges and opportunities of living life in open space. > > Love, > Peggy > > > > > _________________________________ > Peggy Holman > peggy@peggyholman.com > Twitter: @peggyholman > > Bellevue, WA 98006 > 206-948-0432 > www.peggyholman.com > www.journalismthatmatters.org > > Enjoy the award winning Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity <https://peggyholman.com/papers/engaging-emergence/> > > > "An angel told me that the only way to step into the fire and not get burnt, is to become > the fire". > -- Drew Dellinger > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > OSList mailing list -- everyone@oslist.org <mailto:everyone@oslist.org> > To unsubscribe send an email to everyone-leave@oslist.org <mailto:everyone-leave@oslist.org> > See the archives here: https://oslist.org/empathy/list/everyone.oslist.org