<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Thanks Mary....George and I plan to attend Charles' <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A memorial service is to be held July 12 at Faith Presbyterian Church in Austin.</span><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wanda<br></span></font><div><div>On Jul 3, 2014, at 2:07 PM, Mary Hampton via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div><br><br><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;"><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Mary Hampton <<a href="mailto:mhampton@att.net">mhampton@att.net</a>><br><b>Date:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>July 3, 2014 at 12:58:02 PM EDT<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Randy Williams <<a href="mailto:randycw1938@gmail.com">randycw1938@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Re: Madman or Martyr? Retired minister sets self on fire, dies</b><br><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;"><div>Thank you, George, Del, Jack and Randy and others,</div><div><br></div><div>I am at a Gathering of 1200 Quakers in western Pennsylvania (California, PA no less). Our theme this year is "LOVE is the first motion". After breakfast, I sat down to read my e-mail. First, i read or comprehended that Charles had died. Then I read George's email "Immolated" with the Methodist article. My world was rocked.</div><div><br></div><div>I did not know Charles well. I did run into him once at Grace Methodist a few years after we moved to Austin. I was there because a women's group was quilting the top I inherited from my grandmother. He was a gracious host and professed to recognize me although I had come up and introduced myself.</div><div><br></div><div>I remember his Mountain of Care story about helping the old man to the bathroom on the plane.</div><div><br></div><div>My first thought was, to the best of my knowledge, I was the only one of these 1200 loving, committed people who had a direct connection at all to this life and death. I have a horror of the means. AND YET, if we decide in every moment where we expend our lives is there not also a blessing in being able to decide where to give our deaths?</div><div><br></div><div>I will go to Charles' Memorial Service. </div><div><br></div><div>Grace and Peace. Love, LIGHT,</div><div>mary</div></blockquote>_______________________________________________<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></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>