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

[Sunny Walker]

Isabel,
I'm ao grateful for your kind words of wisdom. Beautiful a d poetic
reminders.

With love, grace, and peace to us all, in abundant blessings,
Sunny

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On Sun, Aug 24, 2025, 5:27 AM Isobel and Jim Bishop via OE <
oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

> Dear friends,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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!
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> 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
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> Isobel Bishop
> isobeljimbish at optusnet.com.au
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