<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Thankyou so helpful to be connected to such </div><div>wise comments.</div><div>Peace is yours,</div><div>Isobel <br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 15 May 2018, at 9:33 pm, Richard Howie via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252">Thank You David for caring for us in a Way that informs my journey, too.<div>Letting Go and letting God is powerful for me also,</div><div>Ellen<br><div><div>On May 14, 2018, at 4:41 PM, Seth Longacre 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 class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; 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; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space;">Thanks for that David. Amazing.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I too was initiated into the MKP two years ago.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="letter-spacing: 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; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; text-align: -webkit-auto; border-spacing: 0px;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><div class="" style="letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> Seth T. Longacre<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> Carlsbad, CA</span></div><div class="" style="letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="#1f497d" size="2" class=""><i class="">"No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices” Edward R. Murrow</i></font></div><div class="" style="letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><br class=""></span></div></font></div></span></div></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; text-align: -webkit-auto; border-spacing: 0px;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; text-align: -webkit-auto; border-spacing: 0px;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(192, 80, 77);"> </span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(192, 80, 77);">———-O0ooo—<br class=""> ———–(——)—<br class=""> ————)–-/—-<br class=""> ————(_/-<br class=""> —-ooo0O—-<br class=""> —-(——)—-<br class=""> —–\-–(–<br class=""> ——\_)-<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></font></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 14 May, 2018, at 13:01 , David Dunn 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="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space;"><font size="2" class="">Hello colleagues.</font><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class="">We celebrated Clarence’s life last Friday at Park Hill United Methodist Church where he had been a member for many years.</font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><b class=""><font size="2" class="">Highlights</font></b></div><div class=""><ul class=""><li class=""><font size="2" class="">Not too many memorial service bulletin covers feature a great quote from Lao-Tzu (e.g., "…Darkiness within darkness/The gateway to all understanding”)</font></li><li class=""><font size="2" class="">The service began with the Fauré “Requiem" and concluded with “When the Saints Go Marching In”</font></li><li class=""><font size="2" class="">The high point of the service was the story telling by four of Clarence’s closest colleagues</font></li><ul class=""><li class=""><font size="2" class="">Rev. Jim Calhoun, former pastor at Park Hill UMCh</font></li><li class=""><font size="2" class="">Dr. George “Tink" Tinker, Professor of American Indian Cultures and Religious Traditions at Iliff School of Theology</font></li><li class=""><font size="2" class="">Dr. Don Messer, President of the Iliff School of Theology from 1981–2000</font></li><li class=""><font size="2" class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">Dr. Ken Plattner,</font></i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for a time, an active Mankind Project elder; a psychotherapist, writer, and speaker</font></li></ul></ul><div class=""><b class=""><font size="2" class="">Personal Notes about Clarence’s journey since Shirley’s death</font></b></div></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class="">Long ago and far away, Charles Lingo said to me, “David, you’ve got to deal with your anger.” It’s taken much of my adult life to figure out what Charles was talking about. During a ManKind Project “New Warriors Training Adventure” last month—the highpoint of my “dealing with anger” to date—two men mentioned Clarence and his death just two weeks earlier. Beginning on that weekend retreat, a series of surprise encounters and new connections have occurred that shed light on Clarence’s remarkable life and his network of friends and colleagues.</font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class="">Unbeknownst to me, Clarence was initiated in MKP—The ManKind Project—seven or eight years ago, at 83. He became a member of the Colorado MKP elders’ circle and attended gatherings nearly to the end of his life at 91. I’ve met at least half a dozen MKP men who revered him as a colleague and friend, among them Ken Plattner, who spoke at Clarence’s memorial service.</font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class="">Clarence was Ken Plattner’s mentor and friend for many years; he was instrumental in getting Ken into a doctoral program at Iliff. Four years ago, before Shirley died, Clarence asked Ken to be his therapist. When </font><span class="" style="font-size: small;">Clarence said to Ken, “I want to die well,”</span><span class="" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span class="" style="font-size: small;">Ken begain to meet Clarence regularly to help him do shadow work. In time, Clarence made a request concerning whatever remarks Ken might make at a memorial service: “Tell [everyone] the truth about me.” Last Friday, Ken spoke about the vulnerable, insecure man behind the profession, compassion, and energy of Clarence’s public persona as clergyman, professor, and global advocate for education</span></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class="">At one point in Plattner’s work with Clarence, when it had become clear that Clarence was in crisis, Ken asked a friend and Buddhist teacher, Doshin Michael Nelson Roshi, to work with Clarence. Clarence told Doshin Michael, “I want you to help me die gracefully.” Clarence had not yet been able to let go of all of the thoughts and images that were coming up as he (Clarence) was preparing to leave this world and his own ego behind. Doshin’s message was simple: “Stop taking everything that arises do literally. Let it go.”</font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class="">Clarence embraced Doshin’s Zen Buddhist teaching. Letting go, he found some inner calm during his last years. In spite of a challenge communicating, Clarence and I had lively conversations about the dream world in which he was increasingly living, rich in metaphoric language. He spoke spontaneously and I responded with surmise and intuition. Also, when we read the Richard Rohr daily meditation together, Clarence frequently remarked on a phrase or sentence that resonated in some personal way.</font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class="">Life is a sweet mystery and Clarence is a sweet memory.</font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class="">David</font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><span class="" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; 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