[Oe List ...] LEGACIES

Wed May 6 08:02:09 PDT 2015

Thanks Milan for investing your time in writing.the "flowering of the Order"
helps me affirm the myriad adventures in business and in service that we
have taken - often building on our "training" that we received from and gave
to colleagues over the years. I like the 1-3 page stories or vinettes that
you mention - blog posts rather than books. Many of us could reflect and
share in the same way - even me, sometime soon. 

In Peace, Sherwood

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I began writing my "memoirs" in August of 2009, at 72 years of age.  I
retired from our business Participation Works, at age 70, except for Linda
coaxing me out to help her on an occasional facilitation gig, or a TFM or
TSP course.  This was until she had trained up two or three people she could
team up with.  I had been attending a weekly writing group for several years
and finally decided to start posting vignettes from my life on my blog.  So
I now have six years of one to three pages of episodes.  The Spirit Movement
and Order years (1967-1979) revealed that I had pretty much missed the
decade of the 70s.  I can hardly recognize any of the music that came out of
that period.  The next six years I was "in recovery" from life in the Order.
The years from 1985 to 1998 were consumed with our founding and growing the
FOOD FOR ALL organization, then merging it with another nonprofit
organization.  So here I have just published the "final" episode of what I
have called the FOOD FOR ALL ERA.  Although I have shared all of my blog
posts with my writing group and a group of friends I call "My Blogger
Groupies," and more recently on Facebook and Google Groups, this is the
first time I have shared any of my writing with this list-serve.  My reason
for writing this now is that I have been reflecting on the legacy of FOOD
FOR ALL, which we would never have attempted had it not been for the
"education" we received while involved with EI/ICA/Order Ecumenical.  The
methods we learned were present in everything we did in our grassroots
education programs, volunteer programs, working with staff, even our Board
of Directors who learned to make decisions by consensus.  Community forums
were implemented in the Think Tanks on Hunger we conducted, and we adopted
the Sharing Approaches that Work model in working with funded agencies and
our grant boards.  What I have come to realize is that the legacy of FOOD
FOR ALL, which I have written in my latest blog entry, is also the legacy of
EI/ICA/The Order.  As I have followed from afar what so many of you are
doing, I am amazed and humbled.  You are all part of the legacy.  I am in
awe at the work of ICAs in so many of the countries of the world.  And the
ToP Trainers Network, though its potential is still to be fully realized,
has made a huge difference in the field of facilitation.  And just the work
I hear of so many of you are doing, on poverty issues, homelessness,
environmental concerns and climate change, and many more.  Linda and I are
proud to be a part of this great legacy of Those Who Care.

You can find my latest entry, FOOD FOR ALL ERA 22: "You're Welcome" on my
blog at  <http://www.mellowmilan.blogspot.com> www.mellowmilan.blogspot.com.

Milan Hamilton

aka Mellowmilan

80 North Center Street

Redlands, CA  92373-8116

Phone/Fax: (909) 793-4482

E-mail: mellowmilan at verizon.net

Mellow Milan's Musings Blog:  www.mellowmilan.blogspot.com

Mellow Milan's Blog2:  www.mellowmilansite.wordpress.com 

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