[Oe List ...] Gordon Harper

[Dawn Collins via OE]

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On Thu, 2/11/16, Dawn Collins <collinsdawn747 at yahoo.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Gordon Harper
 To: "Shelley Hahn" <shelley.l.hahn at gmail.com>
 Date: Thursday, February 11, 2016, 10:33 PM
 
 I remember Gordon as one who was his
 own man with a calmness of spirit and an erudite demeanor
 ready to tackle a moral contradiction with alacrity. To
 Gordon's family, may the stars shine a bit brighter for you
 all as they welcome him into their heavenly realm.
 
 Deepest condolences,
 
 Dawn Collins
 Denver, Colorado
 
 
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 On Wed, 2/10/16, Shelley Hahn via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
 wrote:
 
  Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Gordon Harper
  To: "Order Ecumenical Community" <OE at wedgeblade.net>
  Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2016, 6:33 PM
  
  I
  didn't know Gordon well at all, but he stood out among
  the throngs in navy blue.  Of course there was the
 pipe and
  goatee ... but there was something more.  As we talked
 about
  him over dinner last night, my parents told me Gordon was
 a
  scholar of English (literature, I assume), and now I can
 see
  how well he fit that part.  I can imagine him
 performing on
  stage or at the podium, opening young  minds to the
 beauty
  and genius of Shakespeare.  Perhaps in his quest to
 save the
  world, he gave up other aspirations (totally guessing
 here).
   I will say that in the past few months, as he faced
 his own
  death, he posted some of the most eloquent, insightful,
  beautiful and loving reflections I've ever read on the
  OE list.  I can see him clearly in my mind's eye,
 head
  tilted slightly back, a great smile, sweet-smelling pipe
 ...
  I'm glad I knew him, if only a little.  Sending love
 and
  wishes for peace to Roxana, Geoff, Elena
  & Stuart.
  
  With
  warmest regards,Shelley
  Hahn
  On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 6:32
  AM, Linda Barnes via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
  wrote:
  On the
  occasion of Gordon's passage
  
  
  We,
  Rupert and Linda Barnes, lived next to Gordon and
  Roxanna in the early days of the Kemper building in the
  famous filing cabinet
  suites.  Often, in the evening, after our
  progeny had been tucked into their respective filing
 cabinet
  cubbies,
  aromatic 
  pipe smoke
  would waft over the
  top and between the cracks of the filing cabinets into our
  neighboring suite.  One
  could hear Gordon rustling through papers
  or quietly commenting to Roxana about something read in
 the
  New York Times.  That was my first brief acquaintance
  with the Harper clan as they were rapidly whisked off to
  Taiwan and India and only
  much later were the Barnes  and the
  Harpers to reacquaint through the marriage of Elena Harper
  and Daudi
  Barnes. 
  Over the years  we have had the privilege of
  interacting with
  Gordon and Roxanna through family gatherings and as
  grandchildren wove their
  way into our families.  A
  prodigious
  mind, ever inquisitive, ever mindful of the uniqueness of
  the spirit movement,
  grounded in the Order Ecumenical, ironic to a fault.
   A
  father and grandfather of loving
  objectivity, a colleague and a dear
  friend. 
  We experience
  loss at this moment,  but
  we will remember you Gordon  in fullness as a warrior for
  justice and
  humanity.  Thank you for passing our way on
  this amazing journey.
  
  
  
  -- 
  Linda Rolfing
  Barnes, CNM
  
  
  
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