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Thank you Beret!<br>
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Wish I was there with you all again! <br>
<br>
Just got back from Imaginal Learning Course in China, excited,
exhausted and pleased that we went. <br>
<br>
Evelyn<br>
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On 5/14/2012 8:23 PM, Beret Griffith wrote:
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thank
you for your heart-spoken words, Jean. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I
experienced work on the Town Meeting Campaign, in the
Archives last week, as an opportunity for amazement and
appreciation. In glancing down at a TM report on progress in
a community, there was an announcement of a recycling
program launch, circa 1977. Stopping in the hall to talk
with Karen Snyder, she reminded me of the 77 neighborhood
meetings done in Chicago in the 80’s. A meeting for <i>Accelerate
’77</i> was about to begin in the ICA boardroom, and right
across the hall there are banana trees, WITH BANANAS,
growing in the 8<sup>th</sup> floor women’s bathroom, thanks
to the imagination and work of Pam Bergdall. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">A
while back someone asked about quotes, which reminded me of
the late 70’s, early 80’s when Sue Laxdal and I combed
through EI/ICA talks and the songbooks words to quote. The
selected quotes were beautifully hand-written by a
calligrapher (this was before the refinements of desktop
publishing) and sold as Desk Art through our short-lived
company NewSpaces, Inc. I still have a set and took a look
this morning. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Jim
Kelly once said to me, “Time was created to keep everything
from happening at once.” So, maybe not so past at all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">“The
world needs that which is in every person, if sparked, will
give new life.” Kay Lush, 1979<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">“Be
careful of free advice – only people who are committed are
going to live what they do.” Larry Ward, 1981<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">“Creation
didn’t stop because someone wrote a story about it.” Larry
Ward, 1980<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">“People
need to see resiliency.” Elsa Bengel, 1980<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
“This will cost you your life and it is worth it.” Larry
Ward, 1980<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">“Dream
about the future and how it will look.” Rod Wilson, 1981<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
“The future is just as open as if something else had been
decided.” Richard Loudermilk, 1979<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">And
from a couple of songs:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">“Consider
the past, its good,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Respond
to the now, let’s act! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Create
a new day, start now,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Set
sail, fly, you can work miracles.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">“Listen
and you will hear, the future is coming clear, and everybody
alive has something to say.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Today
I’m especially appreciative of our colleagues, old and new,
who invented “Accelerate 77” and to John Cock for daily
sending words and images to start the day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Beret
Griffith<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dialogue-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:dialogue-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net">mailto:dialogue-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>] <b>On Behalf
Of </b>Jean Long<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 11, 2012 11:59 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Colleague Dialogue<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Dialogue] Quote from Bonhoeffer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Greetings wonderful colleagues --<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">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!!!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Jean -
moving to Kemper has made all the difference in my life -
and theirs. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:44 PM, William
Schlesinger <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:pvida3607@gmail.com" target="_blank">pvida3607@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Guess our eschatalogical hero got it
wrong! Should have put Pontius Pilate away!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:14 PM, R
Williams <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:rcwmbw@yahoo.com" target="_blank">rcwmbw@yahoo.com</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Calls
to mind the phrase out of the Patton
monologue, "Your job is not to die for your
country..."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">"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."<br>
-Martin Buber (adapted)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span
style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> William
Schlesinger <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:pvida3607@gmail.com"
target="_blank">pvida3607@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>To:</b> Colleague Dialogue <<a
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href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net"
target="_blank">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>>
<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 10, 2012 12:48
PM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Dialogue] Quote from
Bonhoeffer</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">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...<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, May 10,
2012 at 9:41 AM, Terry Bergdall <<a
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="font-family:"Times","serif"">"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." <br>
<br>
</span>I believe this is from "After
Ten Years" in Letters and Papers from
Prison. Terry<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, May
9, 2012 at 8:50 AM, George
Holcombe <<a
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href="mailto:geowanda@earthlink.net"
target="_blank">geowanda@earthlink.net</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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14900
Yellowleaf Tr.<br>
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78728<br>
Mobile
512/252-2756<br>
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do not have
anything to do
with it. It
just
appeareth. It
comes as a
stranger, as
an alien—it
just appeareth!
You do not
even know why
you hope. How
in the
world could
you hope when
there
is absolutely
nothing to
justify
any hope?
~Joseph W.
Mathews<o:p></o:p></p>
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