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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Jaime – would like your email address / Sherwood and Eunice<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Sherwood Shankland, Senior Facilitator<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Shankland and Associates LLC<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>19381 East Tufts Circle <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Centennial, CO 80015 USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>303-993-8935<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jaime R Vergara<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 27, 2012 4:51 PM<br><b>To:</b> oe@lists.wedgeblade.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Oe List ...] Fwd: Last OpEd from Jaime<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Jann, (an anyone else in this listserv within US mailing distance) - <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>There were three good responses to my previous request who sent me something in the mail to my Honolulu address. I will visit my Mom the last week of January, so if you still have maps, send them to me at:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Jaime Vergara<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>91 2059 Pahuhu Pl<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Ewa Beach HI 96706<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Thanks, y'all!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>j'aime la vie <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:navy;background:white'>Yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today, participate. In all, Celebrate!</span></i></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>-----Original Message-----<br>From: LAURELCG <<a href="mailto:LAURELCG@aol.com">LAURELCG@aol.com</a>><br>To: oe <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>><br>Sent: Fri, Dec 28, 2012 3:18 am<br>Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Fwd: Last OpEd from Jaime<o:p></o:p></span></p><div id="AOLMsgPart_2_1f13ced7-e7fd-4bc0-a780-c7b0c029649c"><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Thank you, Jaime. Beautiful piece, as usual. I'll miss your columns. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Did you get all the maps you need?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Blessings,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Jann McGuire<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>In a message dated 12/27/2012 12:20:03 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, <a href="mailto:svesjaime@aol.com">svesjaime@aol.com</a> writes:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Our last Saipan Tribune OpEd. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:black'>The usual caveat: curious, welcome; not, see you at the bend.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>j'aime la vie <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:navy;background:white'>Yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today, participate. In all, Celebrate!</span></i></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Jaime R Vergara <<a href="mailto:jrvergarajr2031@aol.com">jrvergarajr2031@aol.com</a>><br>To: jayvee_vallejera <<a href="mailto:jayvee_vallejera@saipantribune.com">jayvee_vallejera@saipantribune.com</a>>; mark_rabago <<a href="mailto:mark_rabago@saipantribune.com">mark_rabago@saipantribune.com</a>>; editor <<a href="mailto:editor@saipantribune.com">editor@saipantribune.com</a>><br>Sent: Thu, Dec 27, 2012 12:29 pm<br>Subject: Last OpEd from Jaime<o:p></o:p></span></p><div id="AOLMsgPart_1_45d6c457-c2cf-4085-a3e1-4db21346b13c"><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Editorial,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Here it is, the last one, for December 31.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>The Way We Are</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Whitney Houston's <i>One Moment in Time </i>was our song with 40-some graduate aggies lassoed to apply their learned skills in watershed resource management projects in three Visayan provinces in the Philippines in the late 80s. We caught the spirit of the song from the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>The song solidified the groups resolve to expend their individual and corporate lives on a task perceived critical to devastated upland agriculture, deforested tropical hills and plains, overly chemical-laden fields, and depleted mangrove and nearshore fisheries. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>It was a marvelous three-year intervention, our city shoes trekking through island interiors. We even had the staff of one site sue us in court for falling short on our vaunted support promises. We trained them too well. I was in agreement with the suit brought against me since I was the President of the sponsoring NGO for the projects. I moved back to the US before the case was resolved. I found out later that our charity foundation lost, and I was not too unhappy!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>This is our last reflection as a regular opinion writer for the <i>Saipan Tribune.</i> We shall not make the "thank you" to the publisher, staff, and readers, a long process. We did have a special niche for Ruth Tighe's brand of social commentaries. We consign our literary output, as is, into history, in her name.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>We shared on the day before Christmas our curriculum vitae from womb-to-tomb. Not your regular CV, we took the "one moment in time" metaphor to describe a lifetime - in our case, all 86 years of it - charted in five life stages, projected as witness to our description of every human soul that comes into this earth. "I am, like each of us, one, unique, unrepeatable gift of life into human history. There has never been one like me before, and there will never be another one like me ever again." That whole but single journey is my one moment in time!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Most of our university classrooms are designed for lecture deliveries, and students expect that format in all their classes. When they come to mine, where pedagogy follows the "kill the teacher" motif in order to make the classroom a student-centered affair, they encounter structured time/space/role/story sessions where students meet themselves ("its a pleasure to meet me"), bump into their classmates "again for the first time", get mentally and gracefully assaulted by a teacher, and gnawed at their awareness by printed speeches and writings of prominent persons. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Maps plastered against the walls broaden perspectives. Aired songs engage the neglected receptacle of hearing and listening, and repeating. We go for the ease and comfort of sounds becoming familiar before we divert attention to words seen, then seek out how they are used. We let students read out loud what others had written before we invite them to write their own. Many encounters occur at many levels of consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>One of the rituals I go through before each start of the class, after chairs and desks are rearranged so that the focus is on the center of the room while clusters of four students are around one of eight or nine squared tables, is to put on a table cloth on a single desk in the middle of the room. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>The cloth is a scarf not unlike what Yasser Arafat's Palestinian head wore. I place a broken coffee cup at the center with rice strewn around it in a circle. The cup's broken handle and rim chip are added, with shards of very old pagoda tiles mixed in. A Chinese hand fan leans against the chipped lip of the cup. A couple of whole walnuts sit atop the rice while local conch shells from Bo Hai guard the sides. Chopsticks stay by their lonesome at the edge. Once in a while, a paper rose protrudes from the cup.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>The class is only too polite to ask why the crazy <i>(shen jing ping) </i>teacher does this regular routine.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>At the end of the semester, I finally talk about the centerpiece. "The decor is not to make the room more beautiful", I say. It is an artform to represent who I am and how I live. It is way of telling my story.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>I am like the broken cup, well crafted but fragile. In this case, broken. The rice looks inviting but it is useless unless it is cooked. That entails heat. The intricate shell takes a lot of mullusk saliva to create but the cask is casually cast away after the content is consumed. The fan reveals how unfair life is. The Chinese worker who makes it gets paid a minuscule amount for time and talent compared to what Korean, German, and Japanese counterparts make to assemble electronics. The walnut has to be cracked to be of any good to anyone. After 6 decades, I have to learn to use a chopstick to survive. On top of it all, sometimes a fake rose gets to preside.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>"That pretty much tells the story of my life," I say. But it is the only life I have. I can live it, or throw it away. (Then it dawns on the class where my listen-repeat start of each session comes from.)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>So, for the last time, the class repeats after me: "This is the day we have. We can live this day, or throw it away. This is the day we have." It's the way we are!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Thanks, y'all.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'><img border=0 id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://presence.mail.aol.com/mailsig/?sn=jrvergarajr2031"> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>j'aime la vie <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>Yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today, participate. In all, </span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>Celebrate!</span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OE mailing list<br><a href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote></div></div><div id="AOLMsgPart_3_1f13ced7-e7fd-4bc0-a780-c7b0c029649c"><pre style='background:white'><tt><span style='color:black'>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre><pre style='background:white'><tt><span style='color:black'>OE mailing list<o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre><pre style='background:white'><tt><span style='color:black'><a href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre><pre style='background:white'><tt><span style='color:black'><a href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre></div></div></div></div></body></html>