[Oe List ...] Carol Pierce

[R Williams]

George,
 
It was my good fortune to encounter Carol last Saturday at the Accelerate 77 gathering in Chicago.  Even though my conversation with her was brief, I sensed that she still embodied all the qualities and traits that you recognized in her when you first met her back in the 60s, and she still had a bit of the accent and that little "twisting" of her mouth.  I'm sorry you didn't get to have "one more conversation" with her.  
 
Randy

"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."
-Martin Buber (adapted)
 

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 From: George Holcombe <geowanda1 at me.com>
To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> 
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 6:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Carol Pierce
  
Thanks, John and Ann.  The first time I went to 3444 (was it '63,'64, can't remember), it was in the afternoon.  I got out of the taxi and went through the door, no security then, went up the stairs and the only two people around were Carol and Kathy (now Zervigon), walking down the hallway.  They immediately greeted me, treated me to coffee and we talked as if we had known each other forever for I don't know how long.  After that I never sensed that I didn't know Carol.  She had a way of twisting her mouth and saying in that southern drawl something that would shift the mood of the conversation whenever it went off track, even when Pierce was rocketing off on some subject that was blowing out all the light bulbs.  I'm a bit sad, hoped to have had one more conversation.

George Holcombe
14900 Yellowleaf Tr.
Austin, TX 78728
Mobile 512/252-2756
geowanda1 at me.com

Hope appeareth, but it is not your Hope—you 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


On Sep 20, 2012, at 10:12 PM, jlepps at pc.jaring.my wrote:

> Carol Pierce
> A person of presence, graciousness, competence, and humor: when we knew her, she embodied those features along with a twinkle that demonstrated a certain detachment from the immediate crises with which she was involved. Her spirit and style will be greatly missed. We join the Order and the family in celebrating her completed life. And we are grateful for the privilege of having known and worked with her.
> 
> Grace & Peace
> Ann & John Epps
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