<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Thank you, Rob. For an old guy you are really good! Seems to me weeping is a good response we should do more of. I can remember from time to time tears appearing in my Grandmother's eyes.<div><br></div><div>When we were living at the ICA centre in Brussels, Robert Gilman came to visit. He was the founder and editor of In Context magazine which became YES! Later. We were talking in our room of all the creative (I called them "alternative" approaches) at large on the planet and how exciting they all were and how much I appreciated In Context for the reporting it was doing of these alternatives. <div><br></div><div>"No, no," Robert said. "We are not interested in alternatives. We are spelling out and highlighting the NEW MAINSTREAM." "Like Voluntary Simplicity," I said. "More like voluntary complexity" He replied.</div><div><br></div><div>In reading your work on MOM, I found myself wanting to edit out "can" and replace the verb with "is" . . .</div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Jim Wiegel</span><br><div>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We are all time travelers journeying into the future. But let us make that future a place we want to visit. “ </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Stephen Hawking</span></p></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 15, 2025, at 8:13 PM, Robertson Work via Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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Here is something I wrote on the movement of movements that may be helpful: <a href="https://robertsonwork.substack.com/p/the-movement-of-movements-mom-dancing" id="LPlnk730176">
https://robertsonwork.substack.com/p/the-movement-of-movements-mom-dancing</a></div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Robertson-Work/e/B075612GBF" target="_blank" title="https://www.amazon.com/Robertson-Work/e/B075612GBF" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-linkindex="0" data-ogsc="" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px;">Books
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</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://robertsonwork.substack.com/" title="https://robertsonwork.substack.com/">Essays on Substack</a></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.globalcompassioncoalition.org/author/robertson-work/" target="_blank" title="https://www.globalcompassioncoalition.org/author/robertson-work/" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-linkindex="3" data-ogsc="" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px;">Videos
and articles</a> <a href="https://www.globalheart2heart.com/a-compassionate-civilization-creating-a-new-future-now/?fbclid=IwAR2EAy4c64wCRzlzUCzVKXokqce3hePofFvzdzvCM5aDYRb9QgdFyQPUyxU" title="https://www.globalheart2heart.com/a-compassionate-civilization-creating-a-new-future-now/?fbclid=IwAR2EAy4c64wCRzlzUCzVKXokqce3hePofFvzdzvCM5aDYRb9QgdFyQPUyxU">
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as it becomes clearer that collapse i.e. withdrawal, does not answer the call to engage in doing the necessary deed of addressing the innocent suffering in our moment.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM Isobel and Jim Bishop via Dialogue <<a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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Dear Bill,<br>
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I’m praying for your gathering by Zoom- not sure of the time difference for me here in Australia, however thank you for your
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Please put me on the discussion of your insights as they are formed. <br>
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Resilience and love for humankind in a new way will shine though. <br>
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Thank you to Randy and Dharma for shining the' horrid light 'John Wesley spoke about- the 'healing light' will come in God’s
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With love in Jesus the Christ,<br>
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> On 23 Feb 2025, at 6:53 am, Isobel and Jim via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hello Bill, <br>
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> I add my name to Wanda. <br>
> I experience here in my country of origin a similar shaking of the foundations as many have described in your nation and Charlie Angus in Canada.
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> Sartre said ‘where one country is in chains we are all in chains’ <br>
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> Please include my name in any findings:- <br>
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> Big think,….act…. Deep resolve. <br>
> Jim Weigel or others will remember the correct words.. <br>
> ‘These are the times, and we are the people’. <br>
> Grace and peace to you Bill, and to all, <br>
> Hooray for Zoom 👍😊<c159f9e4-be54-4441-8145-09147177112c.png><br>
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>> On 23 Feb 2025, at 4:04 am, Holcombe Wanda via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Bill,<br>
>> I can’t join you today because I’m already on a zoom call with other ICA women regarding Women’s Spirit Reflections which also gathers once or twice a year.
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>> Please keep me on your list to participate and if you have any notes to share from this group today, please let me know. Thank you for getting us. And share our thoughts on the
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>> Grace & Peace<br>
>> Wanda Holcombe<br>
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>>> On Feb 22, 2025, at 9:12 AM, Bill Parker via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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>>> I’d like to invite you to a conversation about a path forward in light of what is happening in the human community today. It will be today at 3:00pm US central time on Zoom. The zoom id is 630 013 695 and the password is 352922. I have sent zoom invites
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