<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Remember the Contemplation song? Here's the deal . . . We get 16 or more (or fewer) of us to video record ourselves singing the song, and then compile it and put it on the ICA Research Channel on YouTube. Who is in?<br><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border-color: black; margin-left: 0px;"><tbody><tr style="vertical-align: top;"><td colspan="4" class="s8" style="word-wrap: break-word; vertical-align: top; border-style: none;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; max-width: 543px;"><p class="s10" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 3px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s9" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">CONTEMPLATION</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s6" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: italic; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tune: Those Were the Days</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p></div></td></tr><tr style="vertical-align: top;"><td class="s8" style="word-wrap: break-word; vertical-align: top; border-style: none;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; max-width: 139px;"><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When in the midst of strife</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The other strikes my life</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And that encounter </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Will not let me flee</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It’s then I honor him </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Though he be foe or friend</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And I become the </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All that is not me.</span></p></div></td><td class="s8" style="word-wrap: break-word; vertical-align: top; border-style: none;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; max-width: 134px;"><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And in my past I find</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The fatefulness of time</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But then a transfor-</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">mation comes to me</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I then begin my poem</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In mystery alone</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And I am Adam</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In all History</span></p></div></td><td class="s8" style="word-wrap: break-word; vertical-align: top; border-style: none;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; max-width: 134px;"><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And the Not-yet I see</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Is cut from under me</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So fast it comes as </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Possibility</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Then my reality</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Is change externally</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And I become the </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All of yet to be</span></p></div></td><td class="s8" style="word-wrap: break-word; vertical-align: top; border-style: none;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; max-width: 134px;"><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And deep within I see</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The fact that I just be</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"></span><span style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And unrepeatably</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This one this self</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Free passion then I live</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">My depthless life I give</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I find that I be</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Being in myself. </span></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><br><div>Jim Wiegel</div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>A</div></blockquote></body></html>