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Memories of Don Richard Riso (1946-2012)

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Riso was, like, "The man" to me when I first started reading about Enneagram. His stuff was pretty foundational to me, especially the cycles of integration and disintegration; it was a nice blend of the spiritual with the secular. There was a lot of what I would deem "crap" floating around about the enneagram before then; I think he seriously systemized the theory and put out the first very detailed, cohesive descriptions of how the types worked, along with wings and variants. I started taking it seriously because of his work.

He put out a number of enneagram texts; I know I own 2-3 of the major ones.

It's a shame he has passed on. he was younger than my father, who is still around.

From a distance, he actually held his age pretty well:

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EDIT: As a complete side note, no one ever told me that Russ Hudson was cute.

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[MENTION=7]Jennifer[/MENTION] All of us 5w4s are cute!

But I'm not posting this because of that comment. Today is the 2nd anniversary of Riso's passing away from cancer.
 
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