[Oe List ...] Another offering

Wed Sep 10 13:52:30 PDT 2025

Sounds good (resonates) with me. MM

On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM Don Bushman via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

> "so long as I was possessed by this spirit, it would be literally
> impossible for me deliberately to injure another human being.' The quote
> from Weigel from Auden.
>
> One of my realizations from the Tillich game at the end of that RS1
> seminar (am I accepted Dr. Tillich?) has allowed me to see the relationship
> of my behavior to the "I am-ness" of my life. The radical (as in root)
> state of existence is our wholeness at every moment. When we choose between
> taking this action or that action, we manifest how we have taken
> responsibility for our behavior. We demonstrate what we pay obeisance to
> and how we alone are to answer for our choice.
>
> When I am at peace, well emotionally regulated, as I imagine Auden was at
> the time of his experience, I have on occasion known my own wholeness-aware
> of my own comfort (safety) in the moment at the same time seeing that in
> the people around me.
>
> I notice this feeling when my body, especially the emotional feeling state
> of my body, is calm, what others would call regulated. It is only when
> dysregulated that I choose behavior which is harmful to my neighbor. Ah,
> and dysregulation can come from being in a state of joy or intimate
> attraction, not just fear. (Although fear might be the
> deeply buried underlying emotion which drives our reproductive urges)
>
> Because of our colleague David Dunn, I have encountered Jacob Collier. He
> has reminded me of the emotion altering power of music as well as
> demonstrating how singing together creates a shared safe space. It may be
> that singing together is the practice (as in spiritual practice) which most
> quickly regulates us and encourages this feeling of connection Auden Wiegel
> Laphear Hamilton and Hamilton speak of.
>
> Don Bushman
>
> 828-292-9696
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 8:47 AM Linda Hamilton via OE <
> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>
>> Yes the Haikus came first, then the music from an ai app. I asked for a
>> tune that would fit the Haiku style and the mood of the six verses as a
>> whole. I was also reminded me of the preschool song we used to sing “When
>> I’m on my journey there is no one there but me .. etc.”
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Sep 10, 2025, at 4:52 AM, James Wiegel via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> In the land of the lonely — thanks for the song, Milan, are the verses
>> really haiku?  Wow.
>>
>> your song addressed my life.  All your songs do:  putting verse out
>> there, not just “watching all the world go by” and this one reminded me of
>> the final solitude I am dancing around.  (Judy and I are both updating our
>> living trust and hosting 2 grandkids — so full of life and energy and
>> clearly living in a different, if not other world.
>>
>> Also, and only indirectly related, I had come across that statement from
>> Auden and wanted somehow to pass it on.  The two got conflated, vs. dealing
>> with the impact of each on its own.
>>
>> Thanks, again, and kudos to your writing group.
>> 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 Sep 8, 2025, at 9:34 AM, Milan Hamilton via OE <
>> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>>
>> Yes Nancy, I wasn’t sure of my response would be to what Jim responded
>> with, but I have even found in these past few years that occurring in a
>> “strange bedfellowhood group,” my writing group has a black former teacher
>> and a Mexican American, a Brit, a woman who grew up in a village in Germany
>> whose mother was killed in her house she was building by American bombers
>> on the last days of the war, all of the former who are sympathetic if not
>> enthusiastic with my political persuasions. Several Christians
>> evangelicals, a couple of Seventh Day Adventists, and at least two MAGA
>> Republicans, one who thinks Trump is the Messiah (my interpretation). The
>> point of my lengthy context is that when the members of this group are
>> writing their stories and talking about their lives instead of their
>> beliefs, on a number of our two hour sharing sessions, what Jim and you are
>> referring to seems to be present in the room. Milan
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Sep 8, 2025, at 12:03 AM, Nancy Lanphear via OE <
>> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> Thanks Jim, for sharing this piece by W H Auden. I’ve  had a similar
>> experience again and again with various configurations here in my
>> community. Living in community and constantly meeting in groups or
>> individuals “on the path” ….. it reminds me how fortunate I am to have a
>> home in which to practice the experience of  “fellow hood” over and over
>> again.
>> Sent with love. ❤️
>> Nancy
>>
>> On Sep 7, 2025, at 9:27 PM, James Wiegel via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks, Milan.  An abrupt ending.
>>
>> I ran across this from W. H. Auden last week.  I think it is somehow
>> related . . .
>>
>> What we used to mean by fellowhood
>>
>>
>> "One fine summer night in June 1933 l was sitting on a lawn after dinner
>> with three colleagues, two women and one man. We liked each other well
>> enough but we were certainly not intimate friends, nor had any one of us a
>> sexual interest in another. Incidentally, we had not drunk any alcohol. We
>> were talking casually about everyday matters when, quite suddenly and
>> unexpectedly, something happened. I felt myself invaded by a power which,
>> though I consented to it, was irresistible and certainly not mine. For the
>> first time in my life I knew exactly — because, thanks to the power, I was
>> doing it - what it means to love one's neighbor as oneself. I was also
>> certain, though the conversation continued to be perfectly ordinary, that
>> my three colleagues were having the same experience. (In the case of one of
>> them, I was later able to confirm this.) My personal feelings towards them
>> were unchanged - they were still colleagues, not intimate friends — but I
>> felt their existence as themselves to be of infinite value and rejoiced in
>> it.
>>
>> I recalled with shame the many occasions on which I had been spiteful,
>> snobbish, selfish, but the immediate joy was greater than the shame, for 1
>> knew that, so long as I was possessed by this spirit, it would be literally
>> impossible for me deliberately to injure another human being. I also knew
>> that the power would, of course, be withdrawn sooner or later and that,
>> when it did, my greed and self-regard would return. The experience lasted
>> at its full intensity for about two hours when we said good-night to each
>> other and went to bed. When I awoke the next morning, it was still present,
>> though weaker, and it did not vanish completely for two days or so. The
>> memory of the experience has not prevented me from making use of others,
>> grossly and often, but it has made it much more difficult for me to deceive
>> myself about what I am up to when I do. And among the various factors which
>> several years later brought me back to the Christian faith in which I had
>> been brought up, the memory of this experience and asking myself what it
>> could mean was one of the most crucial, though, at the time it occurred, I
>> thought I had done with Christianity for good."
>>
>> ~ W. H. Auden, from his Introduction to
>>
>> 'The Protestant Mystics',
>>
>> ", edited by
>>
>> Anne Freemantle
>> Jim Wiegel
>>
>> “We are all time travelers journeying into the future. But let us make
>> that future a place we want to visit. “       Stephen Hawking
>>
>> On Sep 6, 2025, at 5:37 PM, Milan Hamilton via OE <
>> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> My writing group, the Joslyn Joy Writers ( a bunch of seniors who meet
>> weekly to share what they are writing. They thought this one was worthy so
>> I am putting it out there. The assignment for the week was to write about
>> the "Land of the Lonesome" but I took a liberty and wrote six "Haikus in
>> the Land of the Lonely" and then put it to a simple tune and added my
>> voice. We have to continue in poetry and song what we can't say any other
>> way these days.
>>
>> https://youtu.be/Mq_uTYpDr28
>>
>> Mellow Milan Hamilton
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>> Redlands, CA 92373
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>> email: mellowmilan2 at gmail.com
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