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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I have strong memories of Carol. Part of
them were just that she was part of the “permanent order” of which I stood in
awe. (Guess we have to reinterpret permanent, but I feel sure she was to the end
part of he permanent order.) Part of it was her connection to the amazing Joe
Pierce.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>She was always friendly to me. She gave me
hope. I will miss her and will always remember her as she was in the prime of
her life.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>R Williams<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, September 21, 2012
9:47 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Order
Ecumenical Community</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Oe List ...] Carol
Pierce</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>It was my good fortune to encounter
Carol last Saturday at the Accelerate 77 gathering in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:City>. Even though my conversation
with her was brief, I sensed that she still embodied all the qualities and
traits that you recognized in her when you first met her back in the 60s, and
she still had a bit of the accent and that little "twisting" of her
mouth. I'm sorry you didn't get to have "one more
conversation" with her. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>"Listen
to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the world; not to
be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires."<br>
-Martin Buber (adapted)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> George Holcombe
<geowanda1@me.com><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Order
Ecumenical Community</st1:PersonName> <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, September 21, 2012
6:04 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Oe List ...] Carol
Pierce</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Thanks, John and Ann. The first time I went to 3444 (was it '63,'64,
can't remember), it was in the afternoon. I got out of the taxi and went
through the door, no security then, went up the stairs and the only two people
around were Carol and Kathy (now Zervigon), walking down the hallway.
They immediately greeted me, treated me to coffee and we talked as if we had
known each other forever for I don't know how long. After that I never
sensed that I didn't know Carol. She had a way of twisting her mouth and
saying in that southern drawl something that would shift the mood of the
conversation whenever it went off track, even when Pierce was rocketing off on
some subject that was blowing out all the light bulbs. I'm a bit sad,
hoped to have had one more conversation.<br>
<br>
George Holcombe<br>
14900 Yellowleaf Tr.<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Austin</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">TX</st1:State>
<st1:PostalCode w:st="on">78728</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><br>
Mobile 512/252-2756<br>
<a href="mailto:geowanda1@me.com" ymailto="mailto:geowanda1@me.com">geowanda1@me.com</a><br>
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Hope appeareth, but it is not your Hope—you do not have anything to do with it.
It just appeareth. It comes as a stranger, as an alien—it just appeareth! You
do not even know why you hope. How in the world could you hope when there is
absolutely nothing to justify any hope? ~Joseph W. Mathews<br>
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On Sep 20, 2012, at 10:12 PM, <a href="mailto:jlepps@pc.jaring.my"
ymailto="mailto:jlepps@pc.jaring.my">jlepps@pc.jaring.my</a> wrote:<br>
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> Carol Pierce<br>
> A person of presence, graciousness, competence, and humor: when we knew
her, she embodied those features along with a twinkle that demonstrated a
certain detachment from the immediate crises with which she was involved. Her
spirit and style will be greatly missed. We join the Order and the family in
celebrating her completed life. And we are grateful for the privilege of having
known and worked with her.<br>
> <br>
> Grace & Peace<br>
> Ann & John Epps<br>
> <br>
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