Michael --
Great letter, and very helpful. Your description of 'communication
occurring in the spaces between people' can be far richer and contain far
more potential than the 'sender-receiver' perspective. The kinds of
spaces you describe creating are explicitly included in my view, created
by sender and receiver. However, reading your perspective makes me aware
of the potential for more richness of opportunity from the 'spaces'
perspective. I have understood from the beginning that context,
environment, body language, and so forth are part of the communication,
but I thought of them as communications created by sender and/or perceived
by receiver.
I think my description is simpler and far less rich than yours. My
intention is the same, but not as thoroughly thought out, and the
potential richness is more 'available' from your description than mine.
The physics analogy is not appropriate, and I offered it from an
incomplete understanding of what you were saying. I did not understand
your reference to 'space'. Thank you for bearing with me.
--Rol Fessenden LL Bean, Inc. 76234.3636@compuserve.com
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