[Oe List ...] pater noster & Ken Burns

[Herman Greene]

So nice to hear from you and about your journey Ken. Nice prayer.

Herman

On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 10:10 AM, Ken Fisher via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

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> Dear Margaret,
> Thank-you for your response.
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> I am aware that this thread is about Ken Burn’s Vietnam War series and
> memories. In Canada, at that time, I was considerably involved in the
> Anti-War protest movement (SUPA & SDS), protested in front of the American
> Embassy, in connection with Daniel Berrigan (& Philip), ran American Army
> deserters over the Ivy Lea Bridge into Canada and helped them establish
> (false) Canadian identities. In 1968, when I started the process to get a
> Green Card to immigrate to EI: Chicago, I kept waiting for the RCMP (or the
> FBI) to catch up with me. It never happened. I had a draft card.
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> Activism (the disestablishment) has been ‘my style’ throughout my life.
> What is recent for me is the experience of being enveloped in the warmth of
> ‘the all’ and ‘the now’. Thinking 'cause and effect', 'me-them',
> 'subjective-objective' seems to have melted. Not that I can’t get into it!
> (And yes, I can say the word ‘Trump’.)
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> Like so many, it seems that hopefulness is the only way forward. Over the
> past few years I have been deeply assisted by ‘our daily Rohr’ with his
> evocation of oneness and including everything. I am most fortunate to have
> a weekly, hour-long Facetime collegium with Don Bushman - where for years
> now, we pursue this conversation. I am most fortunate to be partnered with
> Patricia who deeply shares this context.
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> So it is, at 75, I have become a bit of a one-note orchestra - in
> eliciting conversation that expands ones mystical experience - of being in
> it all - all together. It is that cohort among humans on which I rely - for
> shared gratitude for life and shared loyalty to a new planet. (Does the sun
> say to the earth, you owe me?)
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> I have been attempting to write a simple daily prayer for myself. In
> conversation with you, I will experiment with the following.
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> Love,
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> Ken
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> Compassionate cosmos…
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> Of the stars, of the earth,
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> Of the air, of the water,
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> Of the plants, of the creatures;
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> Of all, we live.
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> With you, we find our meaning.
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> Grace us with your presence.
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> As we are given life by life itself,
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> May we choose all to love.
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> Trusting in your endless hospitality,
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> Be it so.
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> On Oct 1, 2017, at 2:40 AM, Isobel Bishop via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> wrote:
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> Thankyou Ken
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On 28 Sep 2017, at 1:14 am, Margaret Aiseayew via OE <
> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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> I am sorry to say that even though I appreciate your secular pater noster,
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> I am still concerned with asking the cosmos for forgiveness for all the
> times I have stepped heavily on the earth.  It seems that admitting our
> culpability is essential to moving forward.  I could go on and on.  I am
> not trying to say that guilt is necessary, but it seems like co-creation
> requires a trust based in honesty.  Margaret
> *From:* OE [mailto:oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net
> <oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net>] *On Behalf Of *Ken Fisher via OE
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 27, 2017 9:24 AM
> *To:* George Holcombe; Order Ecumenical Community
> *Subject:* Re: [Oe List ...] conversation on white trash racism
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> Friends,
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> Both through recent experiences and 'our daily Rohr', I’d like to share
> with you my wording of a current secular ‘pater noster'.
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> Compassionate cosmos...
> In which we live,
> and with whom we find our meaning,
> Grace us with your presence.
> Support our freedom to be love as we are loved.
> Trusting in your never-ending hospitality,
> So be it.
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> And, as I have already shared, I love this poem by Hafiz.
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> The sun never says to the earth, “You owe me.
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> Look what happens with a love like that.
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> It lights the whole sky.
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> Feeling the warmth of the sun (the immediate sustainer of our habitat) and
> wanting to ‘be sun too’,
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> Ken
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