[Dialogue] Fwd: Witness- Birthday

[Beret Griffith]

Dick, Thank you! My first email read today. I hear the resonance of a gong.


On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 7:16 AM Nancy Trask via Dialogue <
dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

> Thank you, Dick, for these glimpses of the Mystery through your life.
>
> Nancy Trask
> 515-505-0456
> nancy50273 at centurylink.net
>
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> From: Richard Alton via Dialogue <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> To: dialogue at wedgeblade.net
> Cc: Richard Alton <richard.alton at gmail.com>
> Sent: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 22:29:33 -0500 (EST)
> Subject: [Dialogue] Fwd: Witness- Birthday
>
> *Oh My God, Life*
>
> …the things that happen in life are astonishing..being driven to and fro by
> the mystery.. a few recent examples
>
> I attended part of the ICA USA Board meeting last month. We broke up into
> small groups and I was in a group with John Cock II. He and I were in Kenya
> together. I think it was John’s 9th grade trip. I was impressed to hear him
> rattle off the villages he worked in: Kwangware, Kamweleni and
> Mugumwoini...just like he had been there yesterday. John was a great
> addition. Probably, the first Board member literally born into the
> organization- now an urban engineer with a focus on bike trails. Had his
> middle school daughter with him. I wonder when she is going abroad.
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> The afternoon I was there, the Board brainstormed ICA core values- things
> like community development, ToP methods, being a learning organization,
> even poverty, chastity and obedience. I struggled with this question of
> core values. I think the core of the core is the ability to give a
> witness.. to stand present to one’s life and the amazing things revealed or
> that happen to one…the mystery at work in one’s life.
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> Like on Halloween night I was coming home late at night on my bike and ran
> right onto a big pile of leaves- it knocked me off my bike, split my lip
> and banged up my ribs. I made it home but the next day was having trouble
> breathing so went to the hospital. They performed a CT scan. There were no
> broken ribs, but the scan showed that I had spots on my lungs...so this all
> happened to catch my attention about my lungs... and on Halloween (the Day
> of the Dead).
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> The second part of my Halloween leaf event: it seems the leaves grabbed my
> phone- so the day after the fall, I could not find my  phone- that really
> hurt. I went back to all the places I had been including the leaf place but
> no phone. Finally, after I had given up Sally asked me, “doesn’t Apple have
> an app that will help you find a lost phone?” so on my computer I found the
> lost apple link and sure enough on the screen map there was a flashing
> signal. It was about a 100 yards from where I fell. So I follow the map and
> there is my cell on the curb like it had been waiting for me… think those
> leaves put it there. Is this not The Other World in the midst of this
> world…a Visit to the Land of Mystery?
>
> These Visits seem to come in 3s. I work on the One Earth Film Fest through
> which we show environmental movies all over greater Chicago and engage
> people in conversation and action in response to the films. So I received
> an email from a Dexter Watson at St Malachi/Precious Blood Parish about
> showing a movie. I set up a meeting with Dexter on the Westside of Chicago.
> It turns out Dexter is not only the parish coordinator but also the former
> Alderman of the area. And yes, Fifth City is in his former Aldermanic area.
> In fact, one of Dexter’s favorite people and a mentor was the late Verdell
> Trice, the head of the Fifth City Auto Center and board member of the
> Preschool. Dexter even tried to have a street named after Verdell at one
> time. This is the second time I have been driven back to 5th City. You know
> we are going to have a great film fest event there.
>
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> Dick Alton, introduced to the mystery in December,1968 and working with the
> mystery on the future of planet Earth ever since. Oak Park, Illinois
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> --
> Richard H. T. Alton
> One Earth Film Fest ( OEFF)
> Green Community Connections
> Interfaith Green Network
> T: 773.344.7172
> richard.alton at gmail.com
> **Save the Date! One Earth Film Festival 2019, March 1-10*
> http:www.oneearthfilmfestival.org
>
> Make Plain the Vision, Habakkuh 2:2
>
>
> --
> Richard H. T. Alton
> One Earth Film Fest ( OEFF)
> Green Community Connections
> Interfaith Green Network
> T: 773.344.7172
> richard.alton at gmail.com
> **Save the Date! One Earth Film Festival 2019, March 1-10*
> http:www.oneearthfilmfestival.org
>
> Make Plain the Vision, Habakkuh 2:2
>
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