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<DIV>Thanks for posting Joyce's review, Ken.</DIV>
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<DIV>Jann McGuire</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 2/19/2013 4:34:41 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
hkf232@gmail.com writes:</DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 16px" class=Apple-style-span><I>So Far
From Home Lost and Found in our Brave New World </I>by Margaret J.
Wheatley Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2012</SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16px" class=Apple-style-span>Here's a
review of that book written by Joyce Marshall. It appears in the latest
issue of the Realistic Living Journal, November 2012.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16px" class=Apple-style-span>I have not
read anything with which I resonate more strongly than this book.
Drawing on her work with systems, Wheatley lays out the elements of the
world we now live in – robber barons, millions oppressed, ideological dumbing
down, manufactured selves, consumerism, distraction, etc. – and how these
elements interact, resulting in humanity being Lost. The first step
toward being Found is to recognize how profoundly we are Lost. To
motivate ourselves by the outcomes we hope to achieve is not appropriate. That
kind of hope is the flip side of fear. But there is a different kind of
hope – that we will BE hope, be warriors of the spirit. This requires
looking directly into the darkness of our times and being brave and decent
human beings who face deeply challenging circumstances. As Wendell Berry
put it: “No matter how bad things get, a person of good will and some ability
can always do something to make it a little better.” Maybe our work
won’t be different from what we are now doing, but the context shifts.
Expectations and attitudes shift. One aspect of that spirit is avoiding
getting caught up in outrage and righteous anger. The truer feeling is
being overwhelmed with grief. Allowing </SPAN></FONT><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 16px" class=Apple-style-span>ourselves
to experience our grief will leave us with greater clarity about how to
respond. </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 16px"
class=Apple-style-span>Wheatley, articulating what I have been sensing for
some years now, clarifies a context that I have fuzzily tried to talk about.
Her mentors are Chogyam Trungpa and Pema Chodron, and though they are
Buddhist, I am happy to follow her call to arms and become a Christian spirit
warrior. I would like for all my friends and colleagues who are vocated
to serving the world to read this book – yesterday.</SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16px" class=Apple-style-span>Joyce
Marshall</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>On 2013-02-18, at 7:53 PM, Shelley Hahn wrote:</DIV><BR
class=Apple-interchange-newline>Hi Mom & All,
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<DIV>I did a quick search and came across this which may have been the
reference that spurred you to buy the book (?):</DIV>
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color=#000099>Suggest the reading of Meg <SPAN
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,204)" class=il>Wheatley</SPAN>'s latest
book So Far From Home. Great statement of the hope beyond hope, in the sense
in which Kaz spoke of hope as the greatest temptation. </FONT></DIV>
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color=#000099>Randy</FONT></DIV>
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know if that helps.</DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Doris Hahn <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A title=mailto:dshahn31@gmail.com
href="mailto:dshahn31@gmail.com"
target=_blank>dshahn31@gmail.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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class=gmail_quote>After I read the little dialogue in which Randy and Jack
suggested that Meg Wheatley's book would address the issue, I did a really
uncharacteristic thing (at about 9:30 p.m.). I immediately went to Amazon
and ordered the book. Now that I have read (and appreciate) it, I want to
remember what the issue was to which the book was the answer. Can you
refresh my memory--only on this one issue--I won't ask you to do a sweeping
job on my memory<SPAN><330.gif></SPAN>.<BR><BR>I do think Meg Wheatley
does a good job, and I certainly believe her answers may be helpful, though
I think the spirit work we did is far more sweeping and with more depth.
What she has that we didn't is today's world with current issues. Actually,
I never did like the "warrior" image, because it is so masculine. However,
it now carries a lot of other baggage for me, including the personal (hate,
anger, etc) along with the outward destructiveness of war. Maybe this is
good archive work if we haven't already done it. In any case, it is a
current conversation worth having. Of course, we used war images all the
time, but surely there are other current ones that could be
motivating.<BR><BR>What would we drag out of our corporate memory or current
innovation that could lead the way in today's world?<SPAN class=HOEnZb><FONT
color=#888888><BR><BR>Doris
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