[Oe List ...] [Dialogue] The old Order passing away

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In the San Francisco House, 1970-71, Ellery acquired some bamboo poles and  
taught the kids a Philippino game kind of like jump rope, but jumping 
between  the poles as they were clapped together in rhythm. She was very good at  
it.
 
I believe she and her parents didn't get  evacuated for 2 or  3 years after 
the war broke out. They were hidden from the occupying  Japanese army by 
local folks in the crawl space under the house until  smuggled out on a 
submarine and taken to Ayers Rock (?) in Australia. Maybe Jon  can elaborate. I 
believe her father wrote a book about it.
 
I feel privileged to have been acquainted with these two heroines.
 
Jann McGuire  
 
 
In a message dated 9/26/2012 8:02:44 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
dpat23 at msn.com writes:

I remember Ellery's talking about having lived in the Philippines  as a 
high school girl. (Her dad was a missionary and they were evacuated when  WWII 
broke out.)  When she  was assigned to Manila, she thought the  Tagalog 
language she had been fluent in would come back to her fairly easily.  She was 
very frustrated to find that it was gone and not coming back. About 6  months 
in to her assignment, she had been doing development in Manila and was  
exhausted. She got on the bus to go home and wanted nothing much more than a  
good nap. But the women just behind her would not let that happen. They kept  
yammering away about the most stupid and trivial things: their kids and 
their  squabbles, the troubles in their marriages, and other nonsense. Ellery 
was  furious; why couldn't these women shut up and let her sleep?  
Suddenly, she realized that the women were speaking Tagalog and she was  
understanding every word.  She was so tired that she had lost all her  
inhibitions and the Tagalog that lay just beneath her conscious mind came out.  So 
from then on, she both understood and spoke Tagalog fluently.
She had a great time telling this story  on herself.
Pat



 
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From: sunwalker at comcast.net
To: dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net;  oe at lists.wedgeblade.net
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:49:46 -0600
Subject:  [Dialogue] The old Order passing away


First, a reflection  on Ellery – as a young and inexperienced Global Prior, 
Ellery was one of the  ones who was gracious enough to let me learn from my 
mistakes without rancor  and yet with continued nourishing support. Just 
her face was a human support  mechanism. She spiritually nourished me and we 
rarely even spoke. And with  mortality on my mind as so many saints are 
called home, knowing you have gone  with God, I will let go a bit of the 
anticipation of my own  return. 
For Carol, while  there are many, many memories: one that popped to the top 
was the time we were  at the IERD in Delhi and had boarded the VERY tiny 
elevator on the top floor  (about the 22nd as I recall) of the hotel where we 
were housed. We  pushed the button for the ground floor and about a third of 
the way down, the  elevator shuddered to a stop and the door opened…on a 
brick wall. Well, I was  a little claustrophobic and unaware that Carol was 
extremely claustrophobic.  That hour waiting to be rescued (it could have been 
15 minutes, but seemed  like SEVERAL hours) was revealing of the wondrous 
woman of steel (Superman  move over) who kept us breathing and laughing to 
avoid injuring ourselves in  the mad panic of fear that sets in when you MUST 
get OUT and you cannot.  Clearly our circumstances were not our problem. 
While in “Heaven,” do a few  cartwheels for me, my dear, as I know we both 
would enjoy  them. 
Sunny 
Sunny Walker   
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Aurora,  CO 
No mattter how  far you've gone down the wrong road, turn back. ~ Turkish  
Proverb 


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