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

[Jann McGuire]

Thank you, Isobel, for the fond memories.

Jann McGuire

On Sun, Aug 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM Sunny Walker via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
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> I'm ao grateful for your kind words of wisdom. Beautiful a d poetic
> reminders.
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> On Sun, Aug 24, 2025, 5:27 AM Isobel and Jim Bishop via OE <
> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> Isobel Bishop
>> isobeljimbish at optusnet.com.au
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