[Dialogue] Quote from Bonhoeffer

Sat May 12 04:52:13 PDT 2012

Thank you for your sharing Jean. I have experienced the building of this profound community of which you share each time I visit Kemper and highly recommend folks visit it to see first hand the "miracle" Kemper building is to still be standing & all the services that are offered to the community we envisioned when we first occupied the building. 

Remember what it looked like with rows of desks & glassed office cubicles around the sides. It took a community of many people to enable the transformation  to "happen". Many of those folks were new & had little context for what was happening, but they were drawn by the spirit of the community's presence. 

I like the new name:  Imaginal Presence. It speaks to me of our Beingness. 

Thanks Jean for giving your time & passion to care for the continuing emergence of a caring spirit filled community Iiving in Kemper. 

Grace & Peace
Wanda

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On May 11, 2012, at 11:58 PM, Jean Long <jean.long512 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings wonderful colleagues --
>  
> This is Jean Long.  I work in the Archives.  Now, I don't know from quotes about the future generations -- all I can relate to you is what I have seen developing here in the Kempter Bldg. with the new staff who are running the ICA.
>  
> They have attended courses like Elise and George Packard's on Imaginal Presence (forgive the title - it is something like that).  They are working with a lot of profound old war horses -- and it is transforming their perspective on life.
>  
> They come to our staff meetings and talk about "used to have a job here - and now they see that they have a mission in life to be here".  They are learning to work as one team instead of little fiefdoms.
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> The bldg. manager and the finance person have decided to move onto the 7th floor.  The way they described it to our resident's meeting is, "Working with the ICA folks is the most extraordinary experience they have had - and they want to know more and figure moving in to live amongst us is the way to pursue that.
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> We have monthly Friday night meals where we do an opening context about the role the meal has played in history - and in the ICA.  We do birthday celebrations and a short conversataion at the end that lets us talk about who we are as a community - leading into a secular absolution.  Even the bldg. construction mgr. and his crew come to that!!!
>  
> So I don't know from quotes - but living with examples of care, compassion and sacrifiice has done a lot to shape the next generation here in the Kemper Bldg.
>  
> PS - About 6 of the new staff are paying the way to the Nepal Conference.  ...and two parents are taking their teenagers to have this experience with them.
>  
> Jean - moving to Kemper has made all the difference in my life - and theirs. 
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> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:44 PM, William Schlesinger <pvida3607 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Guess our eschatalogical hero got it wrong!  Should have put Pontius Pilate away!
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> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:14 PM, R Williams <rcwmbw at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Calls to mind the phrase out of the Patton monologue, "Your job is not to die for your country..."
>  
> "Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires."
> -Martin Buber (adapted)
> From: William Schlesinger <pvida3607 at gmail.com>
> To: Colleague Dialogue <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> 
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 12:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Quote from Bonhoeffer
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> Of course, sometimes the coming generation needs to see people going down fighting like heroes in the face of certain defeat!  Or at least, taking the hit of what seems like certain defeat, and disclosing that certain defeat isn't all it's cracked up to be...
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> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Terry Bergdall <bergdall2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> "To talk of going down fighting like heroes in the face of certain defeat is not really heroic at all, but merely a refusal to face the future. The ultimate question for a responsible man to ask is not how he is to extricate himself heroically from the affair, but how the coming generation is to live." 
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> I believe this is from "After Ten Years" in Letters and Papers from Prison. Terry
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> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:50 AM, George Holcombe <geowanda at earthlink.net> wrote:
> What was that quote from Bonhoeffer a few days ago about lost causes, or going down with the ship, something like that.  I was trying to look it up and couldn't find it.
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