{"id":703,"date":"2006-10-07T00:59:05","date_gmt":"2006-10-07T06:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/10\/07\/inviting-everything\/"},"modified":"2006-10-07T01:06:12","modified_gmt":"2006-10-07T07:06:12","slug":"inviting-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/10\/07\/inviting-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Inviting Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All at once, Life seems as chaotic and coherent, pressured and peaceful, stirred up and stable as I can ever remember.  All of my energy and attention seems fully deployed, into three nested spheres and three separate blogs &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openspaceworld.org\/news\">Open Space World<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagoconservationcorps.org\">Chicago Conservation Corps<\/a>, and here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\">Inviting Life<\/a> &#8212; each one a tidy list and squirming heap &#8212; of thinkings and meetings and doings.  <\/p>\n<p>The strangest thing now is how all three lay claim to being my center of everything.  I&#8217;m Body alive,  radiating energy and taking action, in Chicago communities and a global Open Space movement.  I&#8217;m facilitating Open Space meetings, inviting leadership in community, and practicing intimacy with Life.  And I&#8217;m balancing it all on my bike.  Most everything that&#8217;s really working and getting done these days has some sort of grounding within riding distance.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the big exception to that last one is that Jill and I are leaving on Sunday &#8212; for four weeks in northern India and Kathmandu, Nepal.  We&#8217;re going to eat and explore, to see old friends and big mountains, for a practice retreat and a honeymoon, and (another) bit of Open Space work with <a href=\"http:\/\/nainn.blogspot.com\">NAINN<\/a>.  Go figure.  I guess we&#8217;re going for everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All at once, Life seems as chaotic and coherent, pressured and peaceful, stirred up and stable as I can ever remember. All of my energy and attention seems fully deployed, into three nested spheres and three separate blogs &#8212; Open Space World, Chicago Conservation Corps, and here Inviting Life &#8212; each one a tidy list &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/10\/07\/inviting-everything\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Inviting Everything&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,5,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mutuality","category-personal-reflections","category-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}