Nothing that happened over the last couple of days will influence my engagement in my local community. I'll continue to do what I've been doing. However, if Trump follows through with all, or even some, of his threats some vulnerable people are going to be hurt, and eventually all of us will be negatively impacted in one way or another. One of the things he appears not to know is how interrelated everything is in our networked world. Therefore he has no way to assess the systemic consequences of his actions. <div>Randy<br><br>On Wednesday, November 9, 2016, McCabe, Diann A via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday, November 9, 2016 at 3:26 PM<br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [Oe List ...] art form conversation - election day "Where and how did your body react?"<br>
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<div>That's a perfect question for Republicans, whether primarily Trump supporters or Clinton haters.</div>
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<div>It's also a good question for Democrats, whether primarily Clinton supporters or Trump haters. </div>
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<div>There seems to be enough hatred and fear of the Other to go around. As the sensitive and responsive Ones, our job is to "increase the love of God and Neighbor" to quote H.R, Niebuhr. Recalling this is helping me deal with the regrets about yesterday and
trying to avoid finding fault and placing blame. The Mystery has struck again! Now what?</div>
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<div>I would like to respond to Jann’s proposed question. I’d be interested in any other person’s experience.</div>
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<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>
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I teach a Leadership Studies class at a Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design - traditional age students getting their degree in fine arts.<br>
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I'm thinking tomorrow's class will be an art form conversation on their experience of Tuesday.
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I'd be very interested in this groups wisdom and suggestions for questions and format.<br>
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I have introduced them to the ORID method and facilitated conversations is already an established norm.<br>
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<div>What do you think?<br>
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