[Oe List ...] Saying good bye to Gene and Larry and Joy.

[Isobel and Jim Bishop]

Dear friends,

Thank you Michael for posting the Knowing The Unknowable. I found it very comforting, in it's  own way. I was happy to see my friends, Gene, Brian and Jack once more too. 

I wrote to Herman earlier to express my condolences over the death of Joy. She was  a beautiful young woman and I felt I came to know her even though I don’t remember actually working with her. 

I wrote to Gene when he retired from Realistic Living in early January this year. Jim and I have been subscribers for umpteen years, I forget how long  now. I remember Gene so well here in Australia, when he came down 
to teach the Academy here in a north west suburb of Sydney. He was much loved as a spirit person and managed to straddle the no longer and the not yet very creatively. I grieve his passing on, yet know he is resting and has left a legacy of good thoughts in all his writings. The book David has written has been a blessing to me, and gave so many insights into Gene as a human being. I was very fond of Gene. What a gift David has given us. My family are all reading David’s book. 

For Larry,  I would like to say that over the years we corresponded on Facebook-  what a beautiful human being he was as he grew in inner silence and stillness. I was with Dianne Greenwald at the Local Community Convocation in Atlanta- the LCC was held in a classroom in a School in a poor part of Atlanta. I have often thought of the joy of that occasion, as I watched the all black participants wrestling with the contradictions in the workshop. I had never seen such righteous anger and passion as the group almost came to fisticuffs over stating what they all wanted to say about the contradictions. I remember on the flight back to Chicago Larry was at times very quiet, and then he would burst into laughter. 

Dear Milan,  I so much enjoyed your poem, thank you. 

It is now almost 21 months since Jim died. I am walking  daily with grief, and yet lately I have had the most extraordinary  experiences of Jim being present in my dreams, dressed as he always was, and talking to me, to encourage me. I have had a strength and felt a deep purpose to live life abundantly. My three adult family and 5 grandchildren have been a constant presence and each one gifts me with their own gift. After the years of separation and deep trauma mentioned by others  in previous posts, I am truly grateful to God or Being or the Unknowable.  

I pray every day for you all, and for your country. It seems Australia is growing up and turning in a different direction from our long held dependence on your country. Our  Prime Minister is forging  a more independent alignment with  different countries, and it is an important time to be an observer! 

With my love and sent with peace in my heart and grace that we all  will continue to journey on, while we have breath. 

Isobel Bishop 









Isobel Bishop
isobeljimbish at optusnet.com.au