Habib's Garden
Connecting People to Weave a Better World
It is with great sadness that we report the death of Steve Habib Rose. A number of us met this evening and thought that this group would be a fitting tribute. Lets use this group to recognize, honor and appreciate the many gifts and blessings he bestowed on so many of us. Please add yourself and your reflections.
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Created: Sep 26, 2007
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Topic: What gift did Habib reflect back to you? And how will you use this gift for social change?
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Flag comment for removal VikiS over 2 years ago
Habib profoundly believed that network weaving was powered by the unique gifts each of us brings to the movement for social change. He had the ability to find and honor everyone's gifts -- to really see you and be present to you -- which is what made his own networking so powerful. You might like to share your commitment to using your gifts as a way of furthering Habib's work for peace, justice and social change.
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Habib and I shared a passion for the power of heartfelt relationships and the possibility of networks. We worked together to strengthen our community on line and face to face. I always knew that I could count on Habib to take the time to spread the word and generously share his contacts. He leaves a huge void. In fact the last email I got from Habib was telling others about Green October. This Wiser group is an example; Habib started the Seattle Wiser Commons practice group. I will use these gifts to carry on the work within our community to work for just and lasting change.
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Thank you, Viki, for starting this thread. Habib's skill at discerning people's gifts and finding places in the world that matched them was certainly part of his own particular genius, and an inspiring model that I will practice emulating.
Another quality I think of right away is Habib's 'dearness' -- how he addressed his friends as 'dear one', and how he regarded every friend and acquaintance, and every person who ever crossed his path it seems, with such kind affection. To the degree that we can regard every other one as a 'dear one' we will be living in a world where we take care of each other and the places we touch. |
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None of these topics allow the pure shared mourning I would need with others who loved him and received his gifts of patience, kindness, steadfastness, humility, vision, acceptance, and so much more. Habib, Susan Partnow and I did the summer 2001 experiment in cafe dialogue that became the Conversation Cafes, now a global method and movement. He had the fools courage to step in to the unknown and the servants capacity to step aside and let others lead if they wish. He was always up to something that would nourish community. He SAW community with his heart where others only saw a collection of isolated individuals bumping into one another. He came from this heart community everywhere and with everyone, no matter what the package. He had a keen sense of justice, not as a stance but as a natural outflow of love for everyone's gifts to the circle. He was tireless, or so it seemed to me, though i know he as a human must have tired of many things. Habib was one of a kind, unique, noble, giving, odd, divine. If any of this rubbed off on me, i am better for it. for now, i just am so sad his living presence will not be in my future as i stumble along trying to make this world safer, saner and happier.
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I feel grief that I won’t be experiencing Habib the way I have in the past. I also feel strangely like he is still with us and will continue to be through the strong fabric of connections that he used his life’s energy to weave. He has left us enmeshed in a way we might not have been and might not have been conscious of without him in our lives.
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