[Oe List ...] [Dialogue] A Very Brief Collegium

[James Wiegel via OE]

Of course, Grandfather

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> On Sep 5, 2015, at 04:53, David Yost via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
> 
> Dear Gordon, 
> 
> Thanks for your timeless and insightful salute,
> 
> It generated a flashback for me of a scene from the Movie Little Big Man - When Chief Dan George when up the mountain to die...
> 
> Here is a link to that movie clip
> https://youtu.be/QwgnDn8ez9g
> 
> The words that stand out from that clip are 
> 
> "Thank you for making me a Human Being
> Thank you for making me a warrior
> Thank you for my victories and for my defeats
> Thank you for my vision and my blindness in which I saw further
> 
> I am going to die now Unless death wants to fight
> and I ask you for the last time 
> to grant me the power to make things happen
> 
> Take care of my son here, see that he doesn't go crazy
> 
> (Chief Dan George Lies down on the ground to die and then the rain begins to fall on his face)
> 
> Am I Still In This World? 
> 
> Yes Grandfather
> 
> I was afraid of this!
> Sometimes the magic works, Sometimes it doesn't"
> 
> 
> Gordon - Thank you for contributing to Making me a Human Being -  you have made the magic work and you are still in this world.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Doug & Pat Druckenmiller via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>> Gordon,
>> Where to begin? Our discussions about Henry James? Those were delightful, but I now know that he had a literary sister who might have changed our remarks.
>> Perhaps it in the confluence of Hai Ou. The four of us were not there at the same time.  But your work in Taipei after we'd gone allowed us to return last year and reacquaint ourselves with the people who are still there and doing well.
>> That reunion is one of the highlights of my life. Don't know that we would have returned without that video history of ICA in Taiwan.
>> Take care. We are thinking of you.
>> Pat and Doug 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone
>> 
>> 
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Gordon Harper via Dialogue <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> 
>> Date: 09/03/2015 11:19 PM (GMT-06:00) 
>> To: ICA/OE List Serves <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net>, Order Ecumenical Community <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> 
>> Subject: [Dialogue] A Very Brief Collegium 
>> 
>>  Beloved Colleagues --
>> 
>> Few of us, as the end of life
>>  approaches, get the chance to speak directly to anything like our whole community.  It appears that I have that opportunity, and I’m taking advantage of it.
>> 
>> Last week, after two months
>>  of medical testing to find out what had suddenly landed on me and drained me of my strength and usual energy, Roxana and I got the diagnosis.  It’s a rare form of fairly fast moving (typically two months to two years) leukemia, called CMML.  There’s little
>>  to be done to treat it, especially in someone my age (about to be 79). I'm getting good medical care and have a fine local support community here
>>  in Seattle.
>> 
>> First of all, I want you all
>>  to know that I am at peace with this, as is Roxana.  My life--in good part because of you--has been rich, crazy, wonder-filled and a unique and unrepeatable journey with the Mystery. And no one knows better than you and I how to celebrate both our being here
>>  and the completion of our journeys.
>> 
>> I am taking this rare chance
>>  to express to all of you how much you’ve meant to me over the years--as the amazing collection of individual nobodies we are that rode out like the Man of La Mancha to throw our beings into the challenge of bending history.  More than that, you all contributed
>>  your own weird and special gifts, neuroses and idiosyncrasies to the makeup of our corporate life and community, all over the world.  Without you, there’d never have been such a community; so thank you, thank you, thank you.  
>> 
>> I hope to be able to chat with
>>  at least some of you individually or collectively over the time remaining to me, through one of the dizzying array of communication tools at hand today, and give you a little abuse. (What else would you expect from me? And please--do return the favor.) We’ll
>>  see how things work out.  In the meantime, this note will have to stand for my salute to all of you, my heartfelt gratitude for your having been and continuing to be who you are and for that remarkable webbing and mission that connects us.
>> 
>> The peace of God is yours this
>>  day --
>> 
>> Gordon  
>> 
>> 
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