[Dialogue] While we are on this stream of appreciation . . .

[Mary D'Souza]

Thank you Jim for this story.
Mary

On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 10:40 PM, James Wiegel <jfwiegel at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Out of the blue, last week, I got a call from an old colleague, Nick
> Derrough, last week.  Living in Seattle, he was coming to Phoenix for a
> family reunion and wanted to get together for lunch.
>
> Some of you would remember him.  We were together in the Teachers Guild
> probably around 1969 for a year or so.  He went to work on an election
> campaign for Adlai Stevenson (the III?) sort of as a part of permeation.  I
> remember a bunch of us, one night went down to stuff envelopes, or
> something for the campaign.
>
> Anyway, he is 75 now, oldest daughter is 48, has a son in high school.
>  His career has been related to affirmative action, both in companies and
> government.  Right now he is compliance officer for a company that made
> some of the parts for the latest Mars Rover.  He is a cancer survivor.  As he
> told stories of his journey, and asked about mine I was impressed that he
> has retained the gentle sense of buoyancy, concern, and graciousness that I
> remembered from the
> West Side so long ago.  So, I mentioned that to him, and asked him, "Nick,
> what keeps you going?"
>
> Quite matter of factly, he answered, "There is so much injustice to be
> dealt with in the world.  That is what I do."
>
> Jim Wiegel
> Jfwiegel at yahoo.com
>
> It may be that we live in a time of collective heartbreak ... the sense
> that we might not be equal to the ecological, political and economic
> transitions that are necessary, that our own selfishness may be writ too
> deeply into our genes and that the future is therefore untenable and
> unreachable. We do not as yet know if this is true. -- David Whyte, “Letter
> from the House"
>
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