<div dir="ltr">Jim,<div> Many thanks for these poems that speak so clearly -- we shared them with our UCC congregation. </div><div><br></div><div> Minneapolis progressives met at Shiloh Temple (a Black church) on Saturday, Jan. 28. They hoped for 1,000, but 2,000 people showed up from ISAIAH churches (known as Gamaliel in Chicago) this weekend, along with our Sen. Al Franken and Mayor Betsy Hodges to address our most pressing issues at the state level with empowered force. Wonderful to see Latinos show up along with many Muslims, Catholics, Jews, Protestants, black and white all coming together on the issues of affordable health care, affordable housing, increasing the minimum wage, quality early education for all, providing sanctuary for people threatened by deportation, and more. Such solidarity among these groups I've never seen before! Local congregations coming together in an ecumenical way -- this is the face of hope in these times. </div><div><br></div><div> --Joyce Bonafield-Pierce</div><div><a href="mailto:bonafieldcohort26@gmail.com">bonafieldcohort26@gmail.com</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 12:19 PM, James Wiegel via Dialogue <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light,Helvetica Neue Light,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr"><span>truth in re-posting. The two poems I sent around came to me on Facebook this morning. From Elizabeth Landers Engleman and Carol Poole. So nice to have friends . . .</span></div><div></div><div> </div><div class="m_31024545793194780signature" id="m_31024545793194780yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485713403922_9129"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://partnersinparticipation.com/?page_id=123" target="_blank">Jim Wiegel</a> <br><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;line-height:18.3999996185303px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">“If you want an adventure . . . what a time to be alive!”. 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These poems add to my armor as I pray for courage. I will share them with my local groups.<div>Nancy Trask<br clear="none"><div><b style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br clear="none"></b></div><div><b style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br clear="none"></b></div><div><b style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">From: </b><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">"James Wiegel via OE" <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>></span><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><b>To: </b>"Colleague Dialogue" <<a href="mailto:dialogue@wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">dialogue@wedgeblade.net</a>>, "Order Ecumenical Community" <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>><br clear="none"><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, January 29, 2017 9:05:34 AM<br clear="none"><b>Subject: </b>[Oe List ...] Some poems<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593yqt2934093611" id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593yqt41197"><div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">"TWO POEMS FROM THIS MORNING</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature"><br clear="none"></div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">A Ritual to Read to Each Other" </div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">by William Stafford</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature"><br clear="none"></div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">If you don't know the kind of person I am </div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">and I don't know the kind of person you are </div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">a pattern that others made may prevail in the</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature"> world </div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">and following the wrong god home we may miss</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature"> our star.</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature"><br clear="none"></div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">For there is many a small betrayal in the mind, </div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">a shrug that lets the fragile sequence break </div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">sending with shouts the horrible errors of</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature"> childhood </div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">storming out to play through the broken dike.</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature"><br clear="none"></div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">And as elephants parade holding each</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature"> elephant's tail, </div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">but if one wanders the circus won't find the</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature"> park, </div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty </div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">to know what occurs but not recognize the fact.</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature"><br clear="none"></div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">And so I appeal to a voice, to something</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature"> shadowy, </div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">a remote important region in all who talk: </div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">though we could fool each other, we should</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature"> consider—</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">lest the parade of our mutual life get lost in the</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">dark.</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature"><br clear="none"></div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">For it is important that awake people be awake,</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">or a breaking line may discourage them back to</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature"> sleep; </div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">the signals we give — yes or no, or maybe —</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">should be clear: the darkness around us is deep.</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature"><br clear="none"></div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature"><br clear="none"></div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">Deeply grateful to Helen Gerhardt for this: ............................ I know, I know</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">If you could go back you</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">would walk with Jesus</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">You would march with King</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">Maybe assassinate Hitler</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">At least hide Jews in your basement</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">It would all be clear to you</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">But people then, just like you</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">were baffled, had bills</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">to pay and children they didn’t</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">understand and they too</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">were so desperate for normalcy</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">they made anything normal</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">Even turning everything inside out</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">Even killing, and killing, and it’s easy</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">for turning the other cheek</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">to be looking the other way, for walking</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">to be talking, and they hid</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">in their houses</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">and watched it on television, when they had television,</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">and wrung their hands</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">or didn’t, and your hands</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">are just like theirs. Lined, permeable,</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">small, and you</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">would follow Caesar, and quote McCarthy, and Hoover, and you would want</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">to make Germany great again</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">Because you are afraid, and your</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">parents are sick, and your</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">job pays s@$t and where’s your</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">dignity? Just a little dignity and those kids sitting down in the highway,</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">and chaining themselves to</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">buildings, what’s their f@*#king</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature"> problem? And that kid</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">That’s King. And this is Selma. And Berlin. And Jerusalem. And now</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">is when they need you to be brave.</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">Now</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">is when we need you to go back</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">and forget everything you know</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">and give up the things you’re chained to</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">and make it look so easy in your</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">grandkids’ history books (they should still have them, kinehora)</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">Now</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">is when it will all be clear to them.</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature">~Danny Bryck</div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature"><br clear="none"></div><div id="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593AppleMailSignature"><br clear="none"></div><br clear="none"><div>Jim Wiegel</div><div><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="font-size:13pt">401 North Beverly Way, Tolleson, Arizona 85353</a></div><div><font color="#000000">Tel.</font><span style="font-size:13pt"> </span><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="font-size:13pt">011-623-936-8671</a><span style="font-size:13pt"> </span><span style="font-size:13pt">or</span><span style="font-size:13pt"> </span><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="font-size:13pt">011-<wbr>623-363-3277</a></div><div class="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:marilyn.oyler@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">jfwiegel@yahoo.com</font></a></div><div class="m_31024545793194780yiv6530742593MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="http://www.partnersinparticipation.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">www.partnersinparticipation.<wbr>com</font></a></div><div><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div>"<span style="font-size:13pt">We are no longer living in an era of change. 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