[Oe List ...] lyrics for the song "Being"

Sun Jul 28 07:07:39 PDT 2013

I can remember he and Joe quietly chatting about song lyrics (on the West Side).  I seem to recall that he introduced Joe to Carlos Castaneda.  Perhaps Kaze might add a story or two.  I think he left the Order after 'The Great Turn'.  I saw him in '77 while I was on Circuits for Development.  At that time he was comfortably 'born again'.  He was a startlingly lovely human being.  As much as we had a poet laureate, it would be Russ.

Ken Fisher

On 2013-07-28, at 8:01 AM, Bill Schlesinger wrote:

My memories of Russ were from the Westside days.  Gentle, insightful.  Dark hair and dark eyes.  Calm. 

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From: oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Isobel A Bishop
Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2013 1:22 AM
To: Order Ecumenical Community
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] lyrics for the song "Being"

Dear David Walters and all,
The small part I recall of the late Russell Campbell is this:    ( this will need some help from others.) 

Russell and Kaye Hayes were assigned to work around the northern part of Australia-   around Darwin and to some of the Aboriginal Mission stations-  Russell used to wear sandals that he had made out of  used tyres. 

When Russell was living in the Sydney House, he composed both the Contemplation song-  ' Come walk with Francis' and the Being song.  The music would be blaring out  loudly most of the day while he wrote his poetry. 

Russell always wore a very simple grey 'safari suit' . He had made it himself.  He wore his dark, wavy hair shoulder length. 
When he was assigned to the children's structures, the children always did interesting and different activities- e.g..,climbing trees. 

Grace and peace,
Isobel Bishop

On 27/07/2013, at 6:25 PM, J and J Barker <jkjmbarker at bigpond.com> wrote:

Maybe good to recall that words written by the late Russell Campbell.

Jonathan B

On 27/07/2013, at 11:58 AM, jonzondo at juno.com wrote:

thank you, Jaime.
Jon

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From: Jaime R Vergara <svesjaime at aol.com>
To: oe at lists.wedgeblade.net
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] lyrics for the song "Being"
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22:23:15 -0400 (EDT)

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Jon, not formatted the nice way it is on a one sheet but this might work for your purposes:

BEING
Tune: Theme from "Black Orpheus"
My life is as
Vast as the sea
No boundaries no 
Floor beneath me.

Yet as I look within

No man has greater sin.
I am the least of all

I daily fall.

But it's then when
I Doubt that I can

I choose to be nothing
For man.

To die is my lot

I live as if not

With Paul
I merge with all.
I see then as
Never before
The secrets of
heaven my store.
With wisdom twice my age
My life an open page
Though with each insight
Gain a deeper pain.
Yet I live with the Lord on my side
And wild intuition My guide.
I'm sent as a sign

The bread and the wine
My form
And virgin born.
Then I act seeing
Action is vain
And accomplishments
Never as gain.
To only do is less
Than forming humanness
So mission I must be
To set men free.
Called to burn as an Undying flame
Each word and each Gesture the Name.

I must through life-loss
An exalted cross

My place

Reveal his face
Then the Lord through
My life prays a prayer
And my being is
Filled being there.
I can invent anew what
All the saints once knew
By being who I am

I create man.
And it's no longer
I who is seen

But the Lord standing
There in between.
Finished as I die
Held there between
Sky and sod
To save our God.
Yes, it's there on the limbs of the worm eaten tree where the All and the Nothing can BE.

j'aime la vie

Yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today, participate. In all, Celebrate!

-----Original Message-----
From: jonzondo <jonzondo at juno.com>
To: oe <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Sat, Jul 27, 2013 10:09 am
Subject: [Oe List ...] lyrics for the song "Being"

hello community,

A last minute request...
If anyone has the lyrics for the song, "Being" I would like to use them for my 
father's memorial service tomorrow.

singing in beauty,
Jon
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