[Oe List ...] House Experiences

[Ronnie Seagren]

Those mattresses were often sprinkled with DDT, at least before I got to
India.
But in Chikhale we lived in luxury, on the second floor above a cowbarn,
with a gorgeous 450-year-old mango tree out the window. I was five months
pregnant with Jake and I dutifully got the hammock ready for the newborn.
We slept on similar mats on the clean cowdung floor. One morning Brian woke
up from a nightmare of being strangled. Then he discovered that his
sandal-thickened cuticles had been neatly trimmed and you could see the
careful bite marks (no skin broken). Turns out a mongoose had feasted and
then run over his neck. It did make me rethink a baby near the floor. But I
never saw a scorpion in six years there.
We really were a wild caring bunch.

Ronnie

On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 11:24 AM James Wiegel via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

> Of course as a part of the New Village Movement in Kenya, everyone
> received a 6’x2’ foam mattress to carry around circuiting villages
>
> Jim Wiegel
>
> “…the long work
> of turning their lives
> into a celebration
> is not easy. Come and let us talk“.
>
> The Sunflowers. Mary Oliver
>
> On Jul 6, 2022, at 9:08 AM, James Wiegel via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> wrote:
>
> I was going to say something about living in a file cabinet room in the
> newly acquired Kemper  building with two showers for everyone (one on the
> eighth floor and one on the six floor) but I guess I’ll just be quiet.  As
> for scorpions I got bit by one in our bed a few years ago and another
> watching television in our living room.
>
>  yesterday I finished reading Thomas Berry‘s book the great work.  in his
> closing chapters he talks about us living in a moment of grace by which he
> means a moment when something new has to happen one way or another like
> when something figured out how to use carbon dioxide or when respiration
> was invented or the discovery  of the use of fire, or …
> Looking back, What really was the invention or innovation we were
> passionate about that led us to coal bin rooms icicle attics and tents in
> the monsoon? And what do these stories and photos have to say about THIS
> 21st Century moment of grace??
>
> Jim Wiegel
>
> “…the long work
> of turning their lives
> into a celebration
> is not easy. Come and let us talk“.
>
> The Sunflowers. Mary Oliver
>
> On Jul 5, 2022, at 7:57 PM, Holcombe Wanda via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> wrote:
>
> I Agree with you Jack….we were a “wild caring bunch” and willing to do
> whatever it took to Care for Others….
> Our House & floor in Jejudo was with a Korean family in the village.  We
> slept on Ondul floors (heated underneath….if we were lucky) and on a Yo mat
> (80x60 inches) which was just about the size of the room. We rolled it up
> in the morning and placed on a bench built into the back wall of the room
> where our clothes were placed. The walls were made of rice paper like you
> see in the movies and since our room was next to the rice storage room, the
> mice made their way across our room for their nightly meal. Fortunately
> they did not bother us as the “tasty” stuff was in the room next to ours
> that they had to pass through.
>
> There are so many great tales to tell by any of us that I will finish off
> one more of the many I could tell and that was in Majuro. It seems the
> easiest way to set up for temporary housing was to sleep on the floor. The
> walls were so thin where we were housed, that we use to joke in the morning
> that we sometimes said to the couple in the next room, on the floor also.
> Let’s see if we can surpass your “mating” rituals and noise tonight….all in
> fun, I will not share who that couple was in the room on the floor next to
> us.
>
> All in All….what a wonderful life it was because we were all in it
> Together, not for ourselves, but for what we were out to accomplish on
> Behalf of ALL “To
> 💓💞
> Wanda
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jul 5, 2022, at 5:14 PM, Jack Gilles via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> wrote:
>
>
> 
>
> Dear Bill and Marilyn,
>
>
> Thanks so much for yuru stories and experiences.. The images are real and
> stand out on stark contrast. What a wild bunch we were..
>
>
> Peace Within,
>
>
> Jack
>
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