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<div>love your witness of joy. Thank you.</div>
<div>Cynthia Vance</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Dick, Thank you! My first email read today. I hear the resonance of a gong.
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<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 7:16 AM Nancy Trask via Dialogue <<a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="aolmail_gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Thank you, Dick, for these glimpses of the Mystery through your life. <br>
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Nancy Trask<br>
515-505-0456<br>
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Subject: [Dialogue] Fwd: Witness- Birthday<br>
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*Oh My God, Life*<br>
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…the things that happen in life are astonishing..being driven to and fro by<br>
the mystery.. a few recent examples<br>
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I attended part of the ICA USA Board meeting last month. We broke up into<br>
small groups and I was in a group with John Cock II. He and I were in Kenya<br>
together. I think it was John’s 9th grade trip. I was impressed to hear him<br>
rattle off the villages he worked in: Kwangware, Kamweleni and<br>
Mugumwoini...just like he had been there yesterday. John was a great<br>
addition. Probably, the first Board member literally born into the<br>
organization- now an urban engineer with a focus on bike trails. Had his<br>
middle school daughter with him. I wonder when she is going abroad.<br>
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The afternoon I was there, the Board brainstormed ICA core values- things<br>
like community development, ToP methods, being a learning organization,<br>
even poverty, chastity and obedience. I struggled with this question of<br>
core values. I think the core of the core is the ability to give a<br>
witness.. to stand present to one’s life and the amazing things revealed or<br>
that happen to one…the mystery at work in one’s life.<br>
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Like on Halloween night I was coming home late at night on my bike and ran<br>
right onto a big pile of leaves- it knocked me off my bike, split my lip<br>
and banged up my ribs. I made it home but the next day was having trouble<br>
breathing so went to the hospital. They performed a CT scan. There were no<br>
broken ribs, but the scan showed that I had spots on my lungs...so this all<br>
happened to catch my attention about my lungs... and on Halloween (the Day<br>
of the Dead).<br>
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The second part of my Halloween leaf event: it seems the leaves grabbed my<br>
phone- so the day after the fall, I could not find my phone- that really<br>
hurt. I went back to all the places I had been including the leaf place but<br>
no phone. Finally, after I had given up Sally asked me, “doesn’t Apple have<br>
an app that will help you find a lost phone?” so on my computer I found the<br>
lost apple link and sure enough on the screen map there was a flashing<br>
signal. It was about a 100 yards from where I fell. So I follow the map and<br>
there is my cell on the curb like it had been waiting for me… think those<br>
leaves put it there. Is this not The Other World in the midst of this<br>
world…a Visit to the Land of Mystery?<br>
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These Visits seem to come in 3s. I work on the One Earth Film Fest through<br>
which we show environmental movies all over greater Chicago and engage<br>
people in conversation and action in response to the films. So I received<br>
an email from a Dexter Watson at St Malachi/Precious Blood Parish about<br>
showing a movie. I set up a meeting with Dexter on the Westside of Chicago.<br>
It turns out Dexter is not only the parish coordinator but also the former<br>
Alderman of the area. And yes, Fifth City is in his former Aldermanic area.<br>
In fact, one of Dexter’s favorite people and a mentor was the late Verdell<br>
Trice, the head of the Fifth City Auto Center and board member of the<br>
Preschool. Dexter even tried to have a street named after Verdell at one<br>
time. This is the second time I have been driven back to 5th City. You know<br>
we are going to have a great film fest event there.<br>
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Dick Alton, introduced to the mystery in December,1968 and working with the<br>
mystery on the future of planet Earth ever since. Oak Park, Illinois<br>
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Richard H. T. Alton<br>
One Earth Film Fest ( OEFF)<br>
Green Community Connections<br>
Interfaith Green Network<br>
T: 773.344.7172<br>
<a href="mailto:richard.alton@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">richard.alton@gmail.com</a><br>
**Save the Date! One Earth Film Festival 2019, March 1-10*<br>
http:<a href="http://www.oneearthfilmfestival.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.oneearthfilmfestival.org</a><br>
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Make Plain the Vision, Habakkuh 2:2<br>
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Richard H. T. Alton<br>
One Earth Film Fest ( OEFF)<br>
Green Community Connections<br>
Interfaith Green Network<br>
T: 773.344.7172<br>
<a href="mailto:richard.alton@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">richard.alton@gmail.com</a><br>
**Save the Date! One Earth Film Festival 2019, March 1-10*<br>
http:<a href="http://www.oneearthfilmfestival.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.oneearthfilmfestival.org</a><br>
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Make Plain the Vision, Habakkuh 2:2<br>
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