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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>A challenge to do it virtually, but I think it’s doable. The challenge is having us online at the same time. Doodle poll, anyone?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> OE [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Karenbueno via OE<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 3, 2017 8:20 AM<br><b>To:</b> jfwiegel@yahoo.com; oe@lists.wedgeblade.net<br><b>Cc:</b> nancylanphear@gmail.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Oe List ...] A new Singing thread<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>I'm in to sing it. Can we do it virtually? <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Karen Bueno in Denver metro<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>-----Original Message-----<br>From: James Wiegel via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>><br>To: James Wiegel <<a href="mailto:jfwiegel@yahoo.com">jfwiegel@yahoo.com</a>>; Order Ecumenical Community <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>><br>Cc: Nancy Lanphear <<a href="mailto:nancylanphear@gmail.com">nancylanphear@gmail.com</a>><br>Sent: Mon, Jul 3, 2017 5:08 am<br>Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] A new Singing thread<o:p></o:p></span></p><div id="AOLMsgPart_1.2.1_e444c579-f74a-4f63-89c0-34ebf8b81bb2"><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>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?<o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td colspan=4 valign=top style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;word-wrap: break-word'><div><div style='margin-top:9.0pt;margin-bottom:2.25pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails9><b>CONTEMPLATION</b></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails6><i>Tune: Those Were the Days</i></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></td></tr><tr><td valign=top style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;word-wrap: break-word'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>When in the midst of strife</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>The other strikes my life</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>And that encounter </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>Will not let me flee</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>It’s then I honor him </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>Though he be foe or friend</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>And I become the </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>All that is not me.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></td><td valign=top style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;word-wrap: break-word'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>And in my past I find</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>The fatefulness of time</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>But then a transfor-</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>mation comes to me</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>I then begin my poem</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>In mystery alone</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>And I am Adam</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>In all History</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></td><td valign=top style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;word-wrap: break-word'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>And the Not-yet I see</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>Is cut from under me</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>So fast it comes as </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>Possibility</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>Then my reality</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>Is change externally</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>And I become the </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>All of yet to be</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></td><td valign=top style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;word-wrap: break-word'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>And deep within I see</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>The fact that I just be</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>And unrepeatably</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>This one this self</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>Free passion then I live</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>My depthless life I give</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>I find that I be</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt'><span class=aolmails2>Being in myself. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></td></tr></table><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:16.2pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Jim Wiegel<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>A<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></blockquote></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>_______________________________________________<br>OE mailing list<br><a 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