[Oe List ...] Earthrise @ 79

Fri Jul 13 08:44:54 PDT 2018

Judy, the question is can Norm still do Corn Hole.. will give me a little
idea of what I can expect.
Dick

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 10:22 AM, Judy Lindblad via OE <
oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

> Greetings to all,
>
> Now in my 81st year and 10th year as care-partner with Norm Lindblad on
> the Alzheimer's /dementia road, I welcomed John's words.  Indeed, "You
> just never know where wonder will break through, but when it does, it’s
> well worth celebrating."
>
> I have been graced with amazingly good health and read recently that 80 is
> the new 65!  Perhaps over stated and I feel wiser now, but I do give thanks
> daily for the worldview many of you shared and instilled in us.  I will not
> list it all but I do know that RSI, countless projects pulled off with
> astounding results using limited resources and not enough time, colleagues
> support, and *celebrations *have seen us though. Symbol *is* key and the
> Earthrise on our wall in many different residences have made a difference.
>
> This poetry helped me celebrate the intense 5 days we experienced just a
> week ago today.  Norm is finally relaxed and doing well in a carefully
> designed, patient-focused care facility.
>
> *A CRAZY COSMIC COMPLEMENT?*
>
>
> After 56 years of f*or better or worse promises* and carefully crafted
> care...
>
>
> Is this some crazy cosmic complement?
>
>
> Some gracious gift beyond imagining?
>
>
> It took 4 years, 5 moves, and countless hours googling...
>
>
> for Arden Courts to come into focus for us...
>
> Just when we were ready and needed it!
>
> Thank Providence they had room for Norm!
>
>
> Not only that, but an apartment for me at Valley Creek will meet my needs
> as well.
>
>
> *Of course it isn’t over*,* but...*
>
> A friend offered a ride to our church's annual Poetry by the Pool
> gathering and
>
> I’m here tonight to celebrate our new life begun!
>
>
> JOL 7/6/2018
>
> *from* “*morning has broken” poetry fragments*
>
>
> (*Focus of the evening was "Palindrome" a book of poetry by Cincinnatian
> Pauletta Hansel written in response to her mother's dementia...* *and I
> read this poem!*)
>
>
> *Thanks to the Creator, the Redeemer, the Sustainer, and many family,
> friends, and strangers!*
>
>
>
> Grace and Peace and do Take Care to Celebrate!
> Judy and Norm Lindblad,
> 10620 Montgomery Road Apartment 109, Cincinnati, OH 45242 (Judy's address
> after July 27)
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 5:55 PM, Sarah H. Buss via OE <
> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>
>> Me too 80 last December. That got my attention more than any “just one
>> more”  birthday ever had.  But I am grateful for the challenge. ☺️
>> Sarah
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Jul 11, 2018, at 4:41 PM, Del Morrill via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> When I chose racquetball as my choice of aerobic exercise over the
>> boredom of fixtures, there were some who worried that I might fall. This I
>> have done more than once, but as I explained to them, If I “might” fall,
>> I’d rather do it while enjoying something than falling in our home doing
>> nothing interesting.
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* OE <oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net> *On Behalf Of *Jean Long
>> via OE
>> *Sent:* Monday, July 9, 2018 7:35 AM
>> *To:* Order Ecumenical Community <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>; Jean Long <
>> jean.long512 at gmail.com>
>> *Cc:* Jean Long <jean.long512 at gmail.com>
>> *Subject:* Re: [Oe List ...] Earthrise @ 79
>>
>>
>>
>> What a group!!
>>
>> Thanks for your reflections on a wonderful time in life many of us have
>> reached.  You can't know what being 80 is like until you get "up in years"
>> as my mom would say.  I'm only 78 but I claim 80 because it causes such
>> wonder in me. This is me, Jean Long, being 80!!!  I promised myself when I
>> was 12 that I would never be "old" like my aunts and uncles sitting in
>> their rocking chairs on their farmhouses in Iowa (and they were only in
>> their 60's).  ...and I have succeeded.  First thing in the morning, when I
>> don't remember yet that  I am 80ish, I can't figure out why my back is so
>> stiff.  Except for fibromyalgia, which has weakened my legs I have all my
>> faculties.  I wouldn't trade one ache or pain - or the insights that I have
>> about life from this plateau - for a young body and the beginning glimmers
>> of wisdom of anything younger than 50.
>>
>>
>>
>> When I think of someone who is 80 I don't think of any of you - Randy,
>> Claire, John, Lynda, et al.,   The spirit in all of us - the yes to life we
>> demonstrate - allows our presence to be a beacon, a call to something
>> different.
>>
>>
>>
>> We chose to be chosen - and that has made all the difference.
>>
>>
>>
>> Continued Grace & Peace is yours,
>>
>> Jean Long
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 1:51 PM, Jann McGuire via OE <
>> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>>
>> I so appreciate your witness, John and this entire string
>>
>>
>>
>> I turned 81 on June 11. As I recall the phases, 60-80 was Elderhood and
>> at 80, we enter Sage-hood. . While that implies wisdom, with the memory
>> lapses I'm experiencing, I feel less, not more wise. On the positive side,
>> staying in the present moment isn't such a challenge, since I can't
>> remember much of the past.
>>
>>
>>
>> Here we go on another adventure around our great Sun. Happy birthday,
>> John.
>>
>>
>>
>> Jann
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>> On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 4:02 AM Randy Williams via OE <
>> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>>
>> So Lynda, a similar experience. Several years ago when my 2 oldest
>> grandsons were about 4 and 6 years old, they were having a day out with
>> “Grandy,” their name for me. At a point the younger one, Josh, turns to me
>> and says, “Grandy, you sure are big. You eat too much.” The older one,
>> Devin, sensing this was not an entirely appropriate thing for Josh to have
>> said to his grandfather, retorts. “Josh, he doesn’t eat too much, he’s just
>> old.” What a great illustration this would have been in the Christ lecture
>> for the moment grace strikes. Josh and Devin are now 23 and 25 year old
>> men, but I’m still their Grandy.
>>
>> Randy
>>
>>
>> On Jul 5, 2018, at 7:28 PM, Lynda C via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> It’s like the joy of a Senior Discount!  I taught VBS this summer to a
>> class of 4 year olds, with the able assistance of Lyndon, our 14 year old
>> granddaughter (Jono’s).  One little boy, out of the blue, said, “you are
>> really old, aren’t you?”  I smiled and told him he was correct, but I felt
>> really young at heart being with such a smart class.
>>
>>
>>
>> Lynda  (78)
>>
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>> *From: *OE <oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net> on behalf of OE List <
>> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
>> *Reply-To: *OE List <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
>> *Date: *Thursday, July 5, 2018 at 12:37 AM
>> *To: *OE List <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
>> *Cc: *Paul Schrijnen <pschrijnen at aol.com>
>> *Subject: *Re: [Oe List ...] Earthrise @ 79
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>>
>>
>> A fine reflection John. Thank you.
>>
>>
>>
>> What has begun to happen to me is that people on the London Underground
>> have started to offer me a seat. As someone born 16 years after you, you
>> can imagine the range of feelings that such civility causes. But when this
>> happens on the way home from the airport after delivering a 5-day programme
>> I am just grateful - glad to get of my feet and rest my weary bones….
>>
>>
>>
>> Best wishes to you and all,
>>
>>
>>
>> Paul
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>> Paul Schrijnen
>> 13 Bloemfontein Avenue
>> London W12 7BJ
>> paul.schrijnen at gmail.com
>> +44 7973 206 766
>> skype: paulus.schrijnen
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>> On 4 Jul 2018, at 22:47, John Epps via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> *Earthrise @ 79*
>>
>> Recently we were returning from a trip to Kansas and stopped for lunch at
>> Denny’s in Limon, Colorado. We’d been watching storm clouds gathering on
>> the horizon and were hoping to make it home before they hit. As we were
>> leaving, I held the door for an obviously elderly couple – both were
>> white-haired, somewhat bent-over, and he had a cane. Walking was a chore
>> and pushing open the door would have taxed their capacities. They could
>> obviously use some help, so I pushed open the door and held it as they
>> struggled through. Then they uttered the words that still jar me: “Thank
>> you, sir.” “Sir?” Coming from them? I was taught to use that term to refer
>> to those older than I. That statement occasioned an interior rainstorm of
>> reflections, including lots of wind, rain, and some hail.
>>
>> Looking back over the last month, I’ve had more “sirs” thrown at me than
>> at my senior year at The Citadel. There it was earned, deserved, and
>> welcomed. Here it’s a surprising address heralding the onset of elder-ness
>> that I didn’t think I had earned (yet) or deserved, and certainly not
>> welcomed. There are plenty of signs, from the number of medications it
>> takes to keep going to the diminishing energy and frequent naps. But I have
>> ignored those as simply the afflictions of a young man with something gone
>> wrong (to use a phrase from JWM).
>>
>> Reality will not be denied. It breaks through our facades.
>>
>> This time it drove me to look at a work I’d heard about but never
>> examined: “On Holy Living and Dying” by Jeremy Taylor published in 1839 (a
>> century before my birth). I turned quickly to the section on Holy Dying.
>> Here’s an excerpt. “A person is a bubble…all the world is a storm, and
>> people rise up in their several generations…like bubbles descending from
>> nature and Providence; and some of these instantly sink into the deluge of
>> their first parent, and are hidden in a sheet of water, having had no other
>> business in the world but to be born, that they may be able to die: others
>> float up and down two or three turns, and suddenly disappear, and give
>> their place to others: and those that live longest in the face of the
>> waters, are in perpetual motion, restless and uneasy; and being crushed
>> with the great drop of a cloud, sink into flatness and a froth; the change
>> not being great, it being hardly possible it should be more a nothing than
>> it was before. So is everyone….”
>>
>> This goes on for 10 pages with powerful images and the same message about
>> our relative insignificance in the cosmic scheme of things. Somehow, and I
>> don’t know how, I found this strangely comforting, and not unsettling as
>> one might assume. You just never know where wonder will break through, but
>> when it does, it’s well worth celebrating.
>>
>> John Epps
>>
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