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<div style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><font face='"Times New Roman", Times, serif' size="3">It was good to be together with many of you via zoom for the Archives Social Research Assembly and then for the beautiful Celebration of Life of Charles Hahn, both profound experiences in the midst of the Coronavirus Pandemic and the Racism Pandemic and Social Upheaval we are experiencing now.</font></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New;">Attached is another reflection: FIRE ERUPTING, reflecting on this past week, Pentecost, and the birthday<font face='"Times New Roman", Times, serif'> (today)</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </font>of French priest, mystic, paleontologist (on<font face='"Times New Roman", Times, serif'> the</font> team in China discovering the Peking Man), and writer Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (see below), silenced by the Catholic Church because of his writings focussing on the continuing emerging process of Life, synthisizing science, faith, spirit, and mysticism. There is a film<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </font>crew making a documentary on his life that will be shown on PBS, hopefully in 202<font face='"Times New Roman", Times, serif'>1. (The Teilhard de Chardin Project: www.TeilhardProject.com)</font></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-family:New;">Protests continue in Ferguson as in hundreds of places in the country and world<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </font><font face='"Times New Roman", Times, serif'>that are now understanding what Ferguson and other places have experienced in recent years related to systemic racism and violence.</font> The police, including the black police chief who has come to our Ministries Alliance Meetings, have been restrained, conversing and even walking with the peaceful protestors but<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">,<font face='"Times New Roman", Times, serif'> as a last resort,</font> </font>turn to tear gas and smoke bombs when other elements<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">,</font><font face='"Times New Roman", Times, serif'> the pattern showing up across the country,</font> enter the scene and turn the situation more violent--</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-family:New;">throwing fireworks, incendiary devices, rocks and </span><font face='"Times New Roman", Times, serif'>frozen water bottles and shattering windows, doors, writing graffiti, looting stores, and attempting to set fire to a couple of businesses. Media crews and helicopters circling over our house then spew the news to the TV stations. Residents show up early the next morning, cleaning up the broken glass, bottles and other scattered mess, boarding up windows and doors, and scrubbing off the graffiti.</font></font></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><font size="3"><font face='"Times New Roman", Times, serif'>We keep you and your communities/cities in prayer as we all seek to discern how best to know, do and be as humanity now and as we move into the future. </font></font></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><font size="3"><font face='"Times New Roman", Times, serif'>Now to go outside in the sun and plant some flowers . . .</font></font></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><font face='"Times New Roman", Times, serif' size="3">Grace and peace and blessings ~</font></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><font size="3"><font face='"Times New Roman", Times, serif'>Ellie :) </font></font></div>
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(Pentecost)-6/01/2020 (Birthday of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin:<span style=""> </span><i style="">The
task before us know, if we would not perish, is to shake off our ancient
prejudices and build the Earth . . . Someday after mastering the winds, the
waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love,
and then for the second time humankind will have discovered fire.</i>)</span></div>
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