[Oe List ...] FW: Ed's Completed Life

[Marilyn Crocker via OE]

From: Marilyn Crocker [mailto:marilyncrocker at juno.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 6:48 PM
To: mimis41 at msn.com
Subject: Ed's Completed Life

 

Dear Mimi,

 

Joe and I just received an e-mail to the OE community from Vinod expressing
his thanksgiving for Ed's amazingly invested life, and his sense of loss at
the news of Ed's death last Friday.  We are stunned and saddened, as we
still remember Ed as the passionate, mud-covered staff member in Maliwada
who late one afternoon announced at the top of his voice, "It's the right
kind of MUD to launch our BRICK FACTORY!!!"  I know JWM always referred to
Rupert Barnes as Kenya's " wild man", but Ed would certainly have earned
that moniker for India.  Both of these brilliant colleagues had an
unquenchable passion for local people and planet earth.

 

In visiting the website for Village Earth for the first time this evening,
after reading Vinod's reference to it, I find myself so deeply sorrowed that
we (Joe and I) and the larger OE community (via our listserve) somehow
missed out on learning about this amazing network of caring and development
you and Ed launched from your OE diaspora spot in Colorado.  As JWM might
say, "What wonders God has wrought through that Shinn family!!"

 

So many precious memories of our year as part of the HDTS team in Maliwada
flood my mind this evening - the frogs in the coffee tin that Nat and our
kids hid (in our bedroom); Boney Maroney, the best fed dog in India; the
night you, David Scott and we shared a dung covered second floor loft as
facilitators of the Pune consult; the night the rats ran across our bed and
up & out across the transom because we had cookies in the priest's quarters
where we were writing the document after that consult; the haircut you gave
me in Maliwada that everyone claimed made me look 10 years younger (and I
loved that, but was only 34 then!!).

 

Your brilliant and committed husband was such a treasure, wherever he showed
up on planet earth.  Intense, passionate, committed, determined, dogged,
willing to go to the wall, sensitive, responsive, and so many more qualities
- this list only slightly illuminates our beloved Ed Shinn.

 

We extend our love and wishes for comfort to you, Rachael, Mark and Nat at
this time of your deep loss and celebration.

 

Grace and peace,

 

Marilyn and Joe Crocker 

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