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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white 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'>Yeah, what he said! (i.e., very well said, Bill – thanks to you too).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Sunny<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><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><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 [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Salmon via OE<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 18, 2014 7:53 AM<br><b>To:</b> oe@lists.wedgeblade.net<br><b>Subject:</b> [Oe List ...] Salmon: in gratitude<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Jaime--</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> For the duration of our relationship via OE/ICA, and more recently in your monologues on human existence, I am grateful as you fed my innards; understand that your human existence as a representative of Asia <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>et al</span></em> is certification that we live in a global society where we are nutured by the global village. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> In the event that your insights are infrequent, please understand that the world is different because of your representation of what humane-life looks like. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Inner Peace,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Bill Salmon</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid black 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>----- Original Message ----- <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#E4E4E4'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" title="oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">via OE</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" title="oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sent:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Tuesday, June 17, 2014 4:03 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Subject:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> [Oe List ...] Fwd: For June 20 from Jaime<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br><br><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:pinoypanda2031@aol.com">pinoypanda2031@aol.com</a>><br>To: editor <<a href="mailto:editor@saipantribune.com">editor@saipantribune.com</a>><br>Sent: Wed, Jun 18, 2014 7:00 am<br>Subject: For June 20 from Jaime<o:p></o:p></span></p><div id="AOLMsgPart_1_7c42050e-fdf1-4d0a-b5ac-81428c69726c"><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Goodbye, America</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'>I should title this article as <i>Goodbye, Columbus, </i>for the main characters in my recollection were folks who drove all the way from Columbus, Ohio to Fort Wayne Indiana to meet and share a meal together at Chuck E Cheese, for all the children and the adults.<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 Columbus retinue included my second wife <i>(er lao po) </i>with our daughter and her younger brother, both diagnosed ASDs. She will turn 22 this August and he was 19 this April. <i> </i>Along with them was a very competent aide who assisted my ex-wife to make sure that my daughter and son were cared for the midst of their non-normal neurological condition.<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'>My group coming from outside Chicago included my eldest daughter from my primal spouse <i>(yi lao po) </i>who drove with her two sons, one at 6 who is cavalierly brilliant, smarty suave, advanced in language proficiency, and an assertive 4-yr old brother who exhibits hyper-activity, extremely contrarian social responses, and repetitive behavior that qualifies him within the current diagnosis of ASD, Autism Spectrum Disorder. In total, there were eight of us that occupied rooms at a local Hampton Inn outskirt of Fort Wayne.<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'>For those unfamiliar with the characteristics of “autism”, they can Google the subject. There is no shortage of attempts at enlightenment on the widespread condition, from the symptoms to the myriad prescriptions of dealing with it. I had written enough about the condition and the local CNMI families with children diagnosed under ASD, along with my experience with a few SpEd students assigned to my 6th grade class in PSS’ valiant attempt to mainstream their learning, that to add more would be an overkill.<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 using the Indiana meeting as the occasion for my intentional farewell to North America. Yup. T'was almost 50 years since I sailed for 20-days to San Francisco from Manila, taking citizenship 20 years later to deter immigration officers from detaining me for further scrutiny since it was unusual for a Philippine-descent immigrant to qualify to be a citizen and not apply 8 years later!<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'>My style of commitment was through covenants. Three covenants of marriage with three American ladies made me a prime candidate for psychological profiles to determine possible "flaw in character". Add four other "significant others" and we are definitely deemed unstable.<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 was also communally covenanted with some folks who took their churching seriously, their bodies on the barbwires of history, designing human development projects that simultaneously dealt with all the people and all the issues personal and social in a delineated geography, bringing to the enterprise the gifts of the 20th century scientific, and secular revolutions, and appropriating the gifts of the inner city, the urban center, the suburban spread, and the exurban green into the social demonstration. The Ecumenical Institute in Chicago had enough sense to dissipate when the center would not hold in the mid-80s. <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 had meant to drop in on Sheridan corner Lawrence in uptown Chicago where the Greenrise building is currently an urban demo but decided that my farewell would be a drop in the postal box of materials that might be of interest to the institutional archive. I am done socializing.<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'>An off-shoot, the Realistic Living Institute, rigorously mapped the spirit in the last 30 years with the use of Christian symbols and metaphors; I bid them adieu as well in the wetlands of Bonham in Texas not too long ago.<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'>Appropriating the image of the "dead man walking", dead-and-resurrected, has me singing my "One Moment in Time" to be 86 years, leaving me with the last of the 5- phased 17-years each journey to consciously age graciously into the sunset of my years. I began by writing a bio-profile early this year from the perspective of the other side of 86. Not beholden or fearful of the mystery of the unknown future, I am lucidly covenanted to the 86-year journey of this body into human history. Should it factually turn out to be more or less my statistical projection, <i>c'est la vie!</i><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 price is emotionally taxing. I am bidding everyone in North America physical and emotional "goodbyes", just leaving a window of connection ajar being only a mouse-click away on the other side of the planet in today's technology, but mentally, willfully, and totally raising the gates on heretofore covenants into my new covenant with my new circles of consciousness in China of my far east Asian continent.<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'>My genetic connection will be to four grandsons with the family of my two eldest daughters in Chicago and Oakland CA who have gleefully developed their own signatures with no shortage of flourish; it is to their children that I launched a seven-year-itch of writing. <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 second layer of genetics will be the ASD world in Columbus where two children I was privileged to help bring into existence but defaulted in their upbringing; and a shy but gifted writer daughter in Pittsburgh who is gingerly nursing the blooming of a literary self-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'>I told friendly connections in several places that if we ever were to see each other face-to-face again, it will have to be in Asia and/or the Pacific. <i>Paalam! </i>Goodbye! <i>Zai Jian!</i><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><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>j'aime la vie</span></i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'><br><a href="mailto:pinoypanda2031@aol.com">pinoypanda2031@aol.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today. participate. In all, celebrate!</span></i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<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">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</a><o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div><p>No virus found in this message.<br>Checked by AVG - <a href="http://www.avg.com">www.avg.com</a><br>Version: 2014.0.4592 / Virus Database: 3972/7696 - Release Date: 06/17/14<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></body></html>