[Oe List ...] Rightsizing

[ML Jones]

The Pentecost Song was the theme of Camp New Jerusalem in Summer '71.
I can't help but think, as a new Intern, it was clearly one of the reasons
I stayed as I sing it to myself so many years later.
Mary Laura

Mary Laura Jones
Grants Resource Development Consultant
53599 Pulver Road
Three Rivers, MI 49093
cell: 773 636-2022
mljones2022 at gmail.com


On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 8:27 AM RICHARD HOWIE via OE <
oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

> Judy Lindblad uses the description Rightsizing...I like that!
> Dick and I are in that process too...he is 85/83 am I...for the first time
> iN our lives we shall be snowbirds, going to Charleston to be with Claudia
> and Jim from Nov. to March, thus are selecting what to bring along.
> Take care,
> Ellen
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Sep 19, 2020, at 10:28 AM, Jack Gilles via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> wrote:
>
> Dear Jan,
>
> Good to hear you are well. I am redefining the term Downsizing these days.
> I think we are really going down inside as well of getting rid of all those
> “things” we no longer can fit in a smaller abode. I went through the same
> process with all the possessions I had to leave in Meadville when I moved
> to Mexico. Now, except for some few things that are precious to me,
> everything else I am letting go. I think we talked about that as
> Detachtment, but we also saw that as Freedom. So welcome to “Freedom-ville!
>
>
> Peace,
>
> Jack
>
> On Sep 19, 2020, at 8:08 AM, Jann McGuire via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> wrote:
>
> This community is such a comfort as "the days dwindle down to a precious
> few".
>
> I am downsizing to move from the house Fred and I moved into in 1976. Some
> of you remember the place from Town Meeting 76 days.  Lots to deal with in
> addition to smoke from fires to the east and Covid rules. Several potential
> buyers trailed the house yesterday, masked and gloved.
>
>  I feel like an ordinary Egyptian must have,  when Moses and Aaron were
> convincing the pharoah to let the Israelites go.
>
> Gratitude, love and blessings,
>
> Jann McGuire
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 1:07 PM James Wiegel via OE <
> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>
>> So tell him to write new words that are “century appropriate”. :)
>>
>> Jim Wiegel
>>
>> “The old dreams were good dreams; they didn’t work out but I’m glad I had
>> them.”  Robert James Waller
>>
>> On Sep 16, 2020, at 6:42 PM, Zoe Barley <zbarley at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>> I think Ken worked on this one (Pentecost ) but he denies all knowledge
>> so who knows.
>>
>> Sent using myEarthLink
>>
>> On Wed Sep 16 17:12:56 MDT 2020 James Wiegel via OE wrote:
>> With Isobel's post, I was reminded of a song from Baptist Vacation Bible
>> School that had the line in it "See the fire burning Lord, Somebody touched
>> me"  And I got wondering if someone is writing some new songs that capture
>> these days.  Then I thought of 2 old ones from the composite song book:
>> Pentecost Hymn and Prayer . . .
>> PENTECOST HYMN
>>
>> *Tune: There's New World Coming*
>>
>>
>> Like the sound of heaven with the rushing of the wind
>>
>> Came the fire a‑burning and new life was given to men.
>>
>> The young see visions and the old dream dreams
>>
>> Born of fire, filled with power, for all men.
>>
>>
>> To the light from darkness, and to freedom from fear
>>
>> Building from the ashes into one community
>>
>> Peter, Paul, and Luther, Augustine and Benedict
>>
>> Born of fire, filled with power, for all men.
>>
>>
>> With despair abounding and a lack of hope around
>>
>> Still the Spirit comes to the ones who birth the day
>>
>> Giving breath and being to the ones who give their death
>>
>> Born of fire, filled with power, for all men.
>>
>>
>> For the coming ages and the journey of mankind
>>
>> We claim the promise that the fire give life to them
>>
>> Deciding freely to live on behalf of all
>>
>> Born of fire, filled with power, for all men.
>>
>>
>> PRAYER
>>
>> *Tune: Aravah (Hebrew)*
>>
>>
>> When I see my life
>>
>> ever is torn
>>
>>
>> And loved ones
>>
>> violated
>>
>>
>> And my failures are daily reborn
>>
>>
>> Then sorrow with
>>
>> heaven is weighted
>>
>> Yet I can gladly em-brace every hour
>>
>>
>> And praise God’s
>>
>> inequity
>>
>>
>> I can sing of my blessings that shower
>>
>>
>> My joy
>>
>> inexpressible be.
>>
>> Now here I stand
>>
>> battered to and fro
>>
>>
>> The chaos within
>>
>> yet surrounding
>>
>>
>> I cry out my want and
>>
>> the lack that I know
>>
>>
>> And power from with-
>>
>> out feel uplifting.
>>
>> The weight of the world
>>
>> on my shoulders I bear
>>
>>
>> I echo the
>>
>> voices that cry
>>
>>
>> The path of Mankind
>>
>> with my agony bent
>>
>>
>> And my God I’ll fight on
>>
>>  ‘til I die.
>>
>>
>> Jim Wiegel <http://partnersinparticipation.com/?page_id=123>
>>
>> The unknown is what is.  And to be frightened of it is what sends
>> everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love,
>> hate, all that.  Unknown is what is.  Accept that it's unknown, and it's
>> plain sailing.    John Lennon
>>
>>
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>>                     On Wednesday, September 16, 2020, 03:57:28 PM MST,
>> isobeljimbish--- via OE < <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
>>
>> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net
>> > wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear colleagues on the Way,
>> The Australian colleagues   are  thinking about you as you suffer and
>> grieve over loss of life and property;  with the onslaught of the bush
>> fires on your west coast.
>> We understand the horror and pain you are experiencing, coming from our
>> own horrendous past  summer.
>> Thinking of you all,
>> With our  fondest love,
>> Isobel Bishop
>>
>> Isobel Bishop
>>
>> Mob.   <0412129425>
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>> On 17 Sep 2020, at 12:20 am, RICHARD HOWIE via OE <
>> <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
>>
>> <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
>>
>> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net
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>> > wrote:
>>
>> Keeping you all in prayer.  Our cream colored skies here are caused by
>> the smoke high up in the atmosphere.
>> Take good care,
>> Ellen and Dick
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Sep 15, 2020, at 11:33 AM, Seth Longacre via OE <
>> <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
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>> <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
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>> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net
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>> > wrote:
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>> 
>>
>> The smoke is seriously no joke. We closed up all the windows days ago and
>> aren’t letting the kitties out, but even with an air filter, the smoke is
>> giving me headaches. I think most of Oregon is like here in Ashland —
>> everyone who can be is in lockdown and then there are the worst off who’ve
>> been evacuated and are living in their cars in parking lots with no escape
>> at all from the smoke.
>>
>> But we’re lucky. The majority of those who’ve lost their homes here in So
>> Oregon are those on the low end of the socioeconomic scale — whole mobile
>> home parks have been razed, the fire is not yet contained, most
>> non-essential businesses are closed, there’s little to know public
>> transport running. On the upside, donations pour in to several locations,
>> the schools and several churches are providing food and shelter, everyone
>> from cellphone companies to massage therapists are showing up and
>> volunteering services to those in need.
>>
>> And some rain is predicted for Thursday night and Friday. We may run out
>> and dance in the streets.
>>
>> Sent from one of my iThingees, please excuse brevity and typos
>>
>> On Sep 15, 2020, at 08:22, Ellie Stock via OE < <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
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>> <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
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>> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net
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>> > wrote:
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>> 
>> Just wondering what the front line news about the fires is from folks
>> living in CA, WA, and OR.  We're thinking about you, wondering how you are
>> doing, and hoping you are staying safe.  The news media accounts of
>> neighborhoods destroyed and intense smoke air pollution is heart-rending.
>>
>> Ellie Stock
>> <elliestock at aol.com>
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