[Dialogue] Can you recall?

[Ronnie Seagren]

And don't forget about the spirit conversations about social anger. They
were either in 1968 or 1970, and had a profound effect on me, as a young
person.
I don't recall the questions but they might be relevant today.

Ronnie

On Sun, Jul 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM James Wiegel via Dialogue <
dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

> Thanks. So, comprehensive news coverage has been challenging for a while
>
> Jim Wiegel
>
> “…the long work
> of turning their lives
> into a celebration
> is not easy. Come and let us talk“.
>
> The Sunflowers. Mary Oliver
>
> On Jul 13, 2025, at 11:14 AM, Jo Nelson <jo.r.nelson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> There was some question that connected the two parts — a question to
> ground the quote in current everyday experience.
>
> I remember two anecdotes about these conversations. One was from Peoria in
> 1973-4 where Wayne’s and my clock radio would wake us to a program called
> “Waste Not Want Not”, an environmental program. So we had lots of
> environmental news over breakfast that year!
>
> The other story is from Bayad, where Abuna Mateus, the local Coptic Priest
> usually joined us for breakfast. Josip Tito from Yugoslavia was ill, and
> Abuna, who heard the Arabic news on the radio but had limited English would
> always have the news event “Tito has a stomachache.”
>
> Take care,
> Jo
>
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> "Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world.
> Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."  Margaret Mead
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2025 at 11:53 AM James Wiegel via Dialogue <
> dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>
>> In the early days (67-72??), we did scripture conversations as a
>> community over breakfast paired with news conversations. Later on (76
>> ff??), there were quote conversations from those little dark red covered
>> journals that the research people provided also paired with news
>> conversations.  I think, during the Kamweleni human development training
>> schools (79-83??) we had 7 quotes which we cycled through each week.
>>
>> Can you all help me to recall the questions which were used??
>>
>>  Son Shanker's church is going through the book of Proverbs in July (31
>> chapters / 31 days) and we are going through the week's chapters on
>> Thursdays after dinner.
>>
>> This is what I recall
>> SCRIPTURE / QUOTE
>> Read the verse/quote outloud.  Maybe read it a second time?
>> What are the key words?  What words might we substitute for those words?
>> So, How might you say this quote / verse in your own words?
>> -------then I get lost
>>
>> NEWS
>> What are 1 or 2 news events of the last day or so?
>> Which one should we talk about?
>> --------- then I get lost
>>
>> I do remember, in Kamweleni, we had a battery operated radio and Sam Were
>> and some of the other faculty would sit out in the sun in the morning and
>> listen to the Voice of Kenya . . .
>>
>> Jim Wiegel
>>
>> “We are all time travelers journeying into the future. But let us make
>> that future a place we want to visit. “       Stephen Hawking
>>
>> On Jul 7, 2025, at 6:26 AM, Judy Lindblad via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> Amen and I am sorting family and Town Meeting archives as 250 dawns.
>> Hoping to add some to the ICA archives from Schenectady +…..Blessings and
>> happy memories,  Judy L
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM Ellie Stock via OE <
>> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>    1. <https://davidsuzuki.org/about/declaration-of-interdependence/>
>>>
>>> Hi Folks,
>>>
>>> July 4, 2025, yes, celebrating the birth of a nation and the principles
>>> of democracy but also a time to reflect and expand our vision as a nation
>>> to celebrate and live into a Declaration of Interdependence.
>>>
>>> Ellie
>>> elliestock at aol.com [image: Emoji][image: Emoji][image: Emoji]
>>>
>>> <1751592084062blob.jpg>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Declaration of Interdependence - David Suzuki Foundation
>>> <https://davidsuzuki.org/about/declaration-of-interdependence/>
>>>
>>> davidsuzuki.org/about/declaration-of-interdependence
>>>
>>> The Declaration of Interdependence
>>> expresses our values as an organization. It was written for the 1992 UN
>>> Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, where portions of our declaration were
>>> woven into the work of others around the world to form the Earth Charter.
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