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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Jaime--</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> Beverly and I lived on Jeju at
Kwan Yung Il for a full year in addition to a full year in Seoul. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> I have a program on
Korean/Jeju prepared for a high school presentation. I'll see if it can be
sent as an attachment.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> You may be interested in knowing
there is a Government movement to take off most of--if not all of--the island to
be used as a navel base. I'll see if I have anything left about this concern to
share with you. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> Inner Peace, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> Bill and Beverly
Salmon</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=svesjaime@aol.com href="mailto:svesjaime@aol.com">Jaime R Vergara</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=oe@wedgeblade.net
href="mailto:oe@wedgeblade.net">oe@wedgeblade.net</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 21, 2013 4:51 AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Oe List ...] Fwd: Tuesday OpEd
from Jaime</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT color=black size=3
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><FONT size=3>This was on the Tuesday
edition of the ST, for those who might be interested.</FONT><BR><BR>
<DIV style="CLEAR: both; FONT-SIZE: 16px">j'aime la vie
<DIV style="COLOR: black"><BR></DIV>
<DIV><I style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: white"><FONT color=#000080><B>Yesterday,
appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today, participate. In all,
Celebrate!</B></FONT></I></DIV></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: helvetica, arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR><BR>
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size=4 face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">A candle for
Janice</SPAN></B></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "></SPAN></B> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">American Janice of our
acquaintance formerly taught in the Philippines, then married a Filipino who
worked for Eastman Kodak in Rochester, New York. They acted as guardians
(an organizational and functional category) to a social movemental force I was
an active member of in the 70s and the first half of the 80s, operating out of
Chicago, Illinois. We performed as a global servant (word used
intentionally rather than the neutral “service”) force in human (economic,
political, and social) community development. </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">The group labored under a high
intensity of social engagement for almost three decades, then organizational
inertia and entropy set in, but the group had enough selfhood that when it
realized its meeting its own body needs replaced its passion for its mission,
it intentionally dissipated out of being with the same lucidity as it did in
its own analysis of the rise and decline of other organizations that preceded
it. It was called Order: Ecumenical, for those of us who thought it was
revolutionary to be <I>oikumene </I>when others were parochial in their
religious orientations.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">Of course, being ecumenical grew
old and irrelevant so fast that it is just as well the group
disbanded.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">I’ve used the word “intentional”
in two paragraphs now. A global network of "those who care" (nebulous
but real) intentionally remained in touch while each expended one’s self in
one’s own burst of light – into “a thousand light”, in elder George Bush’s
imagery. The group’s program arm was actually referred to by the GOP of
Orange County in US congressional record as “communist”, so the group’s
dissipation into numerous lights in essentially GOP terminology, is more
descriptive rather than ideological.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">Janice and I exchange messages in
a common listserv we are a part of once in a while, on the state of our being
as well as our vocation. Slightly older than I am, she has just joined a
few of my colleagues in bouts with chemotherapy. As has become customary
in the last three years, I light a candle on my ledge to lift up the facticity
of those in my circle of acquaintances continuing to be treasured and
celebrative presence on the planet even in the midst of battling the onerous
challenge of cancerous cells.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 18px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline">I
lit a candle for the late Ruth Tighe of Saipan, the honored maven of local
commentators, until she gloriously downed her last swig of Scotch. She
once commented that I eulogized her exit too early. She outlasted her
Doctor’s prognosis a few years longer. She once bought me lunch at a new
health food restaurant, driving to the place with her oxygen tank in
tow. </SPAN><SPAN style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">In her retinue, i</FONT><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">mminent death had no dominion.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 18px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline">Our
current five now includes Janice of New York joining four others from Seattle,
Maui, Sydney, and Saipan. Specific as to who the candles represent,
taken as a whole, they manifest our relationship to those considered by
society to be “differently-abled” (</SPAN><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">including the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 18px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">"</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 18px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline">handicapped</SPAN><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">"</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 18px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline">).
Being father to two autistic children, the act of regularly lighting candles
are personally of deep significance.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">Janice’s forte is music and the
arts, and a colleague offered for her the lyrics to Cris Williamson’s <I>Song
of the Soul,</I> metaphors of the heart in a song. It turns out to be a
song sung by an intentional community out of Seattle that was a result of my
group’s thousand light bursting. Part of the lyrics
are:<I></I></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">Love of my life I am
crying</SPAN></I></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">I am not dying, I am
dancing</SPAN></I></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">Dancing along in the
madness</SPAN></I></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">There is no
sadness</SPAN></I></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">Only the song of the
soul</SPAN></I></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">Chorus: </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">And we'll sing this
song</SPAN></I></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">Why don't you sing
along</SPAN></I></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">Then we can sing for a long,
long time</SPAN></I></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">Why don't you sing this
song</SPAN></I></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">Then we can sing
along</SPAN></I></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">Then we can sing for a long,
long time</SPAN></I></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "></SPAN></I> </DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 18px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline">For
those who follow our reflections, they would not be surprised to see us latch
into Williamson’s imagery (which, we gather, may have been derived from a Walt
Whitman poem). <I>I am not dying, I am dancing, </I>fits the sentiment
of one of our candle persons who went through chemo for nine months and is
prone to say, “why are folks afraid to talk about dying?” That, and a
small dynamo we know down Sydney way two-step</SPAN><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">s</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 18px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline">
us to the great dance that is life!</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ">As a former Methodist clergy, one
could say that we have had our share of sending off personages into the great
unknown. While grief is a legitimate response to the reality of death, I
used to conduct funeral services not for the dead but for the living. I
did not hesitate to remind my audiences that the reason we grieve is not
primarily for the departed as that the parting reminds us too vividly of our
mortality. It is the affirmation of our finitude that is celebrated in
the completion of a life!</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 18px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline">The
song for Janice is also </SPAN><SPAN style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><FONT
size=4 face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">a</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 18px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline">
song for all our lives.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18px"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "></SPAN> </DIV><BR>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; CLEAR: both; FONT-SIZE: 18px"><A
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color=black size=2 face=arial>j'aime la vie
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<DIV><I><FONT class=Apple-style-span color=#ff0000><B>Yesterday, appreciate;
tomorrow, anticipate; today, participate. In
all, </B></FONT></I><I><FONT class=Apple-style-span
color=#ff0000><B>Celebrate!</B></FONT></I></DIV></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></DIV></FONT>
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