[Oe List ...] How Do We Celebrate as a Community?

[Gordon Harper]

It seems to me not at all easy--in fact, damnably hard--in our dispersed
state, to know how best to celebrate a completed life like that of our
colleague, Wayne Nelson.  For most of us, it's sharing a story or two and a
word of appreciation here on the listservs, which is a practice that I
certainly appreciate.

Jo, the family and our colleagues in Canada, when the time is right, may
suggest other ways in which we can all somehow participate in the
celebration of this unique and remarkable life.  In the meantime, some of
us just might have creative thoughts about how we could now do this for one
another in the 21st century.

One experiment, launched a few years back on the death of another colleague
in Canada (Brian Stanfield), is the *Completions* page on the Repository
website.   Here's the link, if you haven't been there for a while:

http://wiki.wedgeblade.net/bin/view/Main/CompletedLives

Like everything on the Repository, these pages appear when people put them
up, and the initial posting of the basic bios, pictures and stories has
generally been by the families involved.  (Len, Tim and I are always
available to help.)  There's no set format for these pages, and you'll
notice that they manifest a variety of forms and stages of completion.

That's one option (but only one), as we think about how we might now
celebrate--together in some fashion--these great journeys and marking
points.

I don't know--perhaps we should ask, "What would we like the rest of us to
do when it's our turn?"

Gordon
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