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Thanks for posting Joyce's review, Ken.
 
Jann McGuire
 
 
In a message dated 2/19/2013 4:34:41 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
hkf232 at gmail.com writes:

So Far  From Home Lost and Found in our Brave New World by Margaret J.  
Wheatley Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2012


Here's a  review of that book written by Joyce Marshall.  It appears in the 
latest  issue of the Realistic Living Journal, November 2012.






I have not  read anything with which I resonate more strongly than this 
book.  Drawing on her work with systems, Wheatley lays out the elements of the  
world we now live in – robber barons, millions oppressed, ideological 
dumbing  down, manufactured selves, consumerism, distraction, etc. – and how 
these  elements interact, resulting in humanity being Lost.  The first step  
toward being Found is to recognize how profoundly we are Lost.  To  motivate 
ourselves by the outcomes we hope to achieve is not appropriate. That  kind of 
hope is the flip side of fear.  But there is a different kind of  hope – 
that we will BE hope, be warriors of the spirit.  This requires  looking 
directly into the darkness of our times and being brave and decent  human beings 
who face deeply challenging circumstances.  As Wendell Berry  put it: “No 
matter how bad things get, a person of good will and some ability  can always 
do something to make it a little better.”  Maybe our work  won’t be 
different from what we are now doing, but the context shifts.  Expectations and 
attitudes shift. One aspect of that spirit is avoiding  getting caught up in 
outrage and righteous anger.  The truer feeling is  being overwhelmed with 
grief. Allowing ourselves  to experience our grief will leave us with greater 
clarity about how to  respond.  Wheatley, articulating what I have been 
sensing for  some years now, clarifies a context that I have fuzzily tried to 
talk about.  Her mentors are Chogyam Trungpa and Pema Chodron, and though they 
are  Buddhist, I am happy to follow her call to arms and become a Christian 
spirit  warrior.  I would like for all my friends and colleagues who are 
vocated  to serving the world to read this book – yesterday.


Joyce  Marshall





On 2013-02-18, at 7:53 PM, Shelley Hahn wrote:

Hi Mom & All,  


I did a quick search and came across this which may have been the  
reference that spurred you to buy the book (?):



Suggest the reading of Meg Wheatley's latest  book So Far From Home. Great 
statement of the hope beyond hope, in the sense  in which Kaz spoke of hope 
as the greatest temptation. 
Randy


Don't  know if that helps.


Shelley

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Doris Hahn <_dshahn31 at gmail.com_ 
(mailto:dshahn31 at gmail.com) > wrote:

After I read the little dialogue in which Randy and Jack  suggested that 
Meg Wheatley's book would address the issue, I did a really  uncharacteristic 
thing (at about 9:30 p.m.). I immediately went to Amazon  and ordered the 
book. Now that I have read (and appreciate) it, I want to  remember what the 
issue was to which the book was the answer. Can you  refresh my memory--only 
on this one issue--I won't ask you to do a sweeping  job on my 
memory<330.gif>.

I do think Meg Wheatley  does a good job, and I certainly believe her 
answers may be helpful, though  I think the spirit work we did is far more 
sweeping and with more depth.  What she has that we didn't is today's world with 
current issues. Actually,  I never did like the "warrior" image, because it 
is so masculine. However,  it now carries a lot of other baggage for me, 
including the personal (hate,  anger, etc) along with the outward 
destructiveness of war. Maybe this is  good archive work if we haven't already done it. In 
any case, it is a  current conversation worth having. Of course, we used 
war images all the  time, but surely there are other current ones that could 
be  motivating.

What would we drag out of our corporate memory or current  innovation that 
could lead the way in today's world?

Doris  Hahn

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