<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><div class="">On Nov 9, 2016, at 1:49 PM, via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;" class="">What I noticed in myself was how visceral the feelings were as it became clear that Trump was winning the electoral race. One question might be, "Where and how did your body react?"</div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;" class="">Jann</div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;" class=""> </span></div><div data-mce-style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal">Jann, David et al,</p><div class="">I would like to respond to Jann’s proposed question. I’d be interested in any other person’s experience.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here’s mine.</div><p class="MsoNormal">When I went
to bed some time before midnight, yet knowing that Trump had won, I was in
shock, unable to sleep and experiencing great bodily stress. Might I have a
heart attack? (I have never had any heart problems.) Part of this was a deep
sense of helplessness, being infinitely puny in the face of this new reality of
America and the world. To self-soothe, I moved into my current
meditative/contemplative practice of, on the one hand listening to whatever
words my ego was muttering to get a sense of where I was at in this world; and
on the other hand, attentively breathing – ‘we’ on the in-breath and ‘us’ on
the out breath evoking the eternality of the other world.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Soon I
moved into sleep.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Upon
waking, I was aware of being in a cool, vibrantly alive state of being aware
that I had been delivered into a completely new self-awareness of my world.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Well I know
that my ego and one’s collective ego can produce wonderful illusions!</p><p class="MsoNormal">Calmly, I
embrace this new reality symbolized by the Trump presidency. I am committed to finding whole new ways of engaging with this disenfranchised cohort, as I am committed to engaging with the marginalized anywhere.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><p class="MsoNormal">Here’s a
version of the Lord’s Prayer written by Joyce Marshall that I try to read
daily.</p></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div><div class=""><div class=""><div data-mce-style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal">O Holy One,
we look to you that you may find us and shine your light on our soul.</p></div></div></div></div><div><div class=""><div data-mce-style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal">Fill us
with your holy spirit of love and truth.</p></div></div></div><div><div class=""><div data-mce-style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal">May we
trust in the absolute goodness of what is and not fight it.</p></div></div></div><div><div class=""><div data-mce-style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal">We ask for
your spirit and we open ourselves to receive it this moment.</p></div></div></div><div><div class=""><div data-mce-style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal">Forgive us
as we forgive all claims that we have imagined are our due.</p></div></div></div><div><div class=""><div data-mce-style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal">May we
renounce our ego and live ever aware of our dependence on you to keep us free.</p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><div class=""><div data-mce-style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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<div class="aolReplacedBody"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">Hi everyone,<br class=""><br class=""></div>I teach a Leadership Studies class at a Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design - traditional age students getting their degree in fine arts.<br class=""><br class=""></div>I'm thinking tomorrow's class will be an art form conversation on their experience of Tuesday. <br class=""><br class=""></div>I'd be very interested in this groups wisdom and suggestions for questions and format.<br class=""><br class=""></div>I have introduced them to the ORID method and facilitated conversations is already an established norm.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What do you think?<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Grace and Peace,<br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class="aolmail_gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class="">David Flowers<br class=""><br class="">"Whatever the problem, community is the answer. There is no power greater than a community discovering what it cares about." Margaret Wheatley<br class=""></div></div>
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