<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div id="yiv2778039301"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436475273136_47857"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436475273136_47856" style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><div id="yiv2778039301yui_3_16_0_1_1436475273136_7099">Dear All,</div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv2778039301yui_3_16_0_1_1436475273136_7100">As I reflect on the rich & full life of Betty Pesek, I wish to honor her abiding & profound contributions to the worlds of caring for the earth and human development and the spirit depths. I remember a time of working with Betty that I now consider to have been fun, but at the time it required that our whole team stay up all night producing documents and collating about a million of the copies, so at the time I recall that it wasn't all that much fun to face a sweltering night in Mumbai doing all that collating. I think we were preparing for an IERD press conference. And we got the job done, because of course failure was not an option. As the night progressed and turned into morning, our team made it through with lots of silly and hilarious moments to keep us awake and on the task. <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv2778039301yui_3_16_0_1_1436475273136_25646"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv2778039301yui_3_16_0_1_1436475273136_25645"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436475273136_66308" dir="ltr">I've recently been listening to the music of Ladysmith Black Mombazo in my car, and I was surprised to hear an interlude in the midst of their medley of the grand old hymns Amazing Grace & Nearer My God to Thee -- you can imagine those harmonizing African voices. The interlude goes like this -- shoo ga doo ga doo doo doo, shoo ga doo ga doo doo doo, shoo ga doo ga doo doo doo, Praise His Holy Name. </div></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv2778039301yui_3_16_0_1_1436475273136_42207"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv2778039301yui_3_16_0_1_1436475273136_42206"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436475273136_55806">I am grateful to Betty for adding a lot of shoo ga doo to our lives, in the most sweet and loving and helpful ways, and in the midst of a lot of heavy missional lifting, so to speak. My regrets that I can't be in Chicago for the celebration and appreciation of her great and unique life.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436475273136_55805"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436475273136_55804">Best regards to all,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436475273136_55803">Nancy Trask<br></div></div><div id="yiv2778039301yui_3_16_0_1_1436475273136_6165"><span></span></div> <br clear="none"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436475273136_47855" class="yiv2778039301qtdSeparateBR"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div><div class=".yiv2778039301yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yiv2778039301yqt2216371632" id="yiv2778039301yqt46195"><div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Wednesday, July 8, 2015 3:20 PM, Raymond Caruso via Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <br clear="none"><br clear="none"> <div class="yiv2778039301y_msg_container"><div id="yiv2778039301"><div>Elise thank you for this poignant remembrance of our dear friend and spirit colleague, Betty:<div><br clear="none"></div><div>Yes there are giants among us who have left us like Betty...Her elegant style and penchant to move the right things along the path are still with me...Part Pancho ( side kick to Don Quixote) and sometimes D Q in disguise...Her territory was the other world always in the river of consciousness as it flowed inward and outward to places we could not reach alone..Ah yes, I remember her steadfastness, diligence ,grace and genius in cubicle,bringing wonder to Guardian meetings and yes holding us working on projects accountable...</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Thich Nhat Hanh in his last retreat I attended ( before his stroke) delivered wonderful dharma talks around the theme of:" What happens when you die? Which on the flip side of the theme was "What happens when you are alive?"... He talked about our 7 bodies of which the 4th is our/her Continuation Body.. She is in us now;and we are in her now.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div> And so Betty sang her song and composed life for all of us...She is with me now. I too am inspired by her living song that I can tap into at anytime..</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Dear Betty we journey on with you and forever more.</div><div> </div><div>Now go like a River...I too will be with you all present for the memorial from afar.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Salvatore( Ray) Caruso</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv2778039301yqt4624584466" id="yiv2778039301yqt13790"><div><br clear="none"><div><div>On Jul 7, 2015, at 8:21 PM, George via OE wrote:</div><br class="yiv2778039301Apple-interchange-newline" clear="none"><blockquote type="cite">
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</div></div><div><div class="yiv2778039301MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="">Bright
Betty,
We Remember You</span></b></div><div class="yiv2778039301MsoNormal" style=""><span style=""> </span></div><div class="yiv2778039301MsoNormal" style=""><span style="">It
is
impossible for me to imagine a world without Betty Pesek.</span></div><div class="yiv2778039301MsoNormal" style=""><span style=""> </span></div><div class="yiv2778039301MsoNormal" style=""><span style="">Have
you
ever shared an office with Betty?</span></div><div class="yiv2778039301MsoNormal" style=""><span style="">Betty---with
a
flair for adding artistry to the mundane? Just the right
addition of
gold, royal purple, bright red, deep blue to brighten the
boring; to add
sparkle to the shop-worn. Stirring up celebrations with
multicolored bags and
ribbons. Silently connecting with Spirit.</span></div><div class="yiv2778039301MsoNormal" style=""><span style=""> </span></div><div class="yiv2778039301MsoNormal" style=""><span style="">Have
you
ever been in the outtbacks of the world with Betty?</span></div><div class="yiv2778039301MsoNormal" style=""><span style="">Betty---
with
her endearing smile and the twinkle in her eye, making friends
across borders.
Betty, gracefully treading through dust and mud, squeezing into
over-crowded
busses with eagerness and grace. Part Queen, part Princess,
part Trooper.</span></div><div class="yiv2778039301MsoNormal" style=""><span style=""> </span></div><div class="yiv2778039301MsoNormal" style=""><span style="">Have
you
ever run into the Indomitable Spirit of Betty? </span></div><div class="yiv2778039301MsoNormal" style=""><span style="">That
spirit
that took on gathering stories from across the world to artfully
compose
the book, The Circle of Life. She sculpted raw stories into a
symphony of
memories of her bold colleagues laced with humor, sorrow and
joy. Can you
imagine the grit that it took for Betty to bring her organizing
genius to the
initial task of sorting through piles of yellowed papers to help
forge a Global
Archives project-----or to guard and sort the papers of a
prolific sage, turning
them over in pristine order to an institution where they can
live forward in
the minds and hearts of students and seekers? </span></div><div class="yiv2778039301MsoNormal" style=""><span style=""> </span></div><div class="yiv2778039301MsoNormal" style=""><span style="">Have
you
ever identified with Bridging Betty? Born on one side of the
tracks,
and daring to cross over to the other? Appreciating the
strengths of both
sides, and using the gifts of one to meet the needs of the
other. Can you
imagine Betty telling her North Shore friends that she was going
to take the
train each day to a West Side across-the -tracks</span></div><div class="yiv2778039301MsoNormal" style=""><span style="">place,
and
therefore would not be available for tea? Can you imagine Betty
recruiting these same friends for a weekend of study in a church
basement, or a
chance to make a safe haven for West Side children during riots,
or beckoning
these friends to a life of action sparking social justice?</span></div><div class="yiv2778039301MsoNormal" style=""><span style=""> </span></div><div class="yiv2778039301MsoNormal" style=""><span style="">Were
you
gifted to know Energetic Betty in her elder years? She set the
bar
high for keeping going-----creating notebooks that documented
the stages of her
life with news clippings and photos. <span style=""> </span>Creating an archive on
eldering. <span style=""> </span>Betty---proud
Mama and Grand mama of the
spirited Pesek clan; and spark plug of her circle of elders.
Replacing aging
with saging, and then drifting into Spirit. Daring to let go.</span></div><div class="yiv2778039301MsoNormal" style=""><span style=""> </span></div><div class="yiv2778039301MsoNormal" style=""><span style="">Betty,
when
I think to add a touch of gold; when I'm prompted to dive into a
mess to
bring order; when I remember the gift of a wink and a smile;
when I dare to
cross bridges that might lead to dust, mud and quick
sand------you are in my
heart; you spark my spirit. You were there and here; and now
you are
everywhere.</span></div><div class="yiv2778039301MsoNormal" style=""><span style=""> </span></div><div class="yiv2778039301MsoNormal"><span style="">A
world
without the spirit of Dear Betty?<span style="">
</span>Such a
drab world could not exist.</span></div><div class="yiv2778039301MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style="">
</span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Elise
Packard,
June 2015</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"></span></div>
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