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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Jaime--</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> 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>et al</EM> is certification that we
live in a global society where we are nutured by the global village.
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> 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. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> Inner Peace,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> Bill Salmon</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, June 17, 2014 4:03
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Oe List ...] Fwd: For June 20
from Jaime</DIV>
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<DIV
style="FONT-FAMILY: helvetica,arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">-----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<BR><BR>
<DIV id=AOLMsgPart_1_7c42050e-fdf1-4d0a-b5ac-81428c69726c><FONT color=black
size=4 face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=MsoNormal><B>Goodbye, America</B></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline">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.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline">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.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline">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.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline">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
6</SPAN>th<SPAN style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"> grade class in PSS’ valiant
attempt to mainstream their learning, that to add more would be an
overkill.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline">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!</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline">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.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline">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.
</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline">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.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline">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.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline">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></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline">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.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline">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. </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline">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.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><FONT size=4>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! </FONT><I style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">Zai
Jian!</I><FONT size=4></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR>
<DIV style="CLEAR: both; FONT-SIZE: 18px"><I>j'aime la vie</I><BR><A
href="mailto:pinoypanda2031@aol.com">pinoypanda2031@aol.com</A><BR>
<DIV><I>yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today. participate. In
all, celebrate!</I></DIV></DIV></FONT></DIV></DIV></FONT>
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