[Oe List ...] Carol Pierce

Fri Sep 21 07:51:14 PDT 2012

Dear Colleagues, 

Oh my, the heart fills with warmth and pleasure when I think about Carol,  
and with sadness when I realise I won't have another conversation. 
I remember her and Joe from the Academy in the autumn of 74. The clarity of 
 her teaching..the piercing of illusions... shocking moments. 
I remember hanging out with her and Joe during the summer gatherings.  
People would gather in their room, around the fan and Joe in his wheelchair. I  
enjoyed the sparkling intelligence and eyes.
I remember the little engagement party she threw for Christine and me in  
81, and the fine advice and support in those daring days. 
I remember visiting her in her carefully constructed flat last summer:  
content and upbeat, hearing fine stories of her life and current  activities. 

I am grateful she was in my life.

Paul

In a message dated 21/09/2012 15:31:55 GMT Daylight Time,  
agammel at ix.netcom.com writes:

My memories are more  recent. I met Carol at the Profound Journey Dialog in 
Chicago a couple of  years ago, in her electric cart and oxygen tanks, 
lunch and conversation with  her. I admired her courage and optimism. Her 
concern and caring came through  in each conversation over the last couple of 
years. I join in the celebration  of her life and legacy.
Alan Gammel

-----Original  Message----- 
From: Herman Greene 
Sent: Sep  21, 2012 7:00 AM 
To: 'Order Ecumenical Community'  
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Carol Pierce  

I have strong  memories of Carol. Part of them were just that she was part 
of the  “permanent order” of which I stood in awe. (Guess we have to 
reinterpret  permanent, but I feel sure she was to the end part of he permanent 
order.)  Part of it was her connection to the amazing Joe  Pierce. 
She was always  friendly to me. She gave me hope. I will miss her and will 
always remember  her as she was in the prime of her life. 
Herman 

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From:  oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net 
[mailto:oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net]  On Behalf Of R  Williams
Sent: Friday,  September 21, 2012 9:47 AM
To: Order  Ecumenical Community
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Carol  Pierce

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)

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_ (mailto: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_ 
(mailto: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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