In my diary, too, Susie: insha'allah, Yaakub http://www.griquas.com/gr01.htm -----Original Message----- From: BERA Practitioner-Researcher [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Susan Goff Sent: 20 November 2006 21:35 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: A pause That is such a wonderful suggestion Yaakub - it would be an exciting venture to write a paper with you. Can we get back to this early next year? Will put it in my diary. Susie On 20/11/06 6:38 PM, "Paul Murray" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Assalaam wa Alaikum. It is privileging to travel between oases with you. > Here's a quote from Emmy van Deurzen for special moments such as this one - > > "Gabriel Marcel used a lovely phrase to indicate the sort of availability > that was needed to achieve the right mode of encounter, he called it "a > mutual availability for what the future holds in store." (Marcel 1935). This > indicates very clearly how, in true dialogue, I place the emphasis neither > on you nor on me, but rather on what binds us together, on the space that we > have created between us." (Emmy Van Deurzen, 1998, Paradox and Passion in > Psychotherapy: an existential approach to therapy and counselling. > Chichester:Wiley). > > Keeping my loving eye focused on what I've felt binds us together, perhaps > we can create a paper about whiteness that reflects the space quietly > created between us. Good luck with your thesis. > > Yaakub >