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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks, Herman for the note and especially the poetry. You happen to be one of my “colleagues” long standing within me form our days together in Cleveland. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I remember a pedagogy session where as you were setting the context you noted: (my paraphrase) “You may keep a personal journal, but in your RS-I preparation your personal journaling can fit right into your Freedom Lecture 4 x 4…” - This has stuck with me as a reminder to include my own witness in presentations etc. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Warmly, Sherwood<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> OE <oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Herman Greene via OE<br><b>Sent:</b> 15 October, 2020 8:17 AM<br><b>To:</b> OE Listserv <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net><br><b>Cc:</b> Herman Greene <hfgreenenc@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> [Oe List ...] For all the Saints<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>I'm way behind in expressing my condolences for the completed lives of Nan Grow, David Zahrt, Lynn Bailey, George Holcombe and there are no doubt others. I was always moved by Psalm 103 which states (with my changes): <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-left:30.0pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmail-text><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black'>Our days are like the grass;</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black'><br></span><span class=gmail-indent-1-breaks><span style='font-size:5.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'> </span></span><span class=gmail-text><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black'>we flourish like flowers of the field;</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black'><br><span class=gmail-text>later the wind passes over the field, and the flowers are gone, </span><br><span class=gmail-text> and the field knows them no more.</span></span> <o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>How can this be? Yet is so.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thank God for the flower who once in glory stood giving birth to new flowers that still brighten the field.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Though I left the order long ago, my "colleagues" in the Order are still like a second family to me. Yes, they still stand tall within me and I love them so.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Herman<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>__________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Herman F. Greene<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>2516 Winningham Road<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Chapel Hill, NC 27516<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>919-942-4358 (ph & fax)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:hfgreenenc@gmail.com" target="_blank">hfgreenenc@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>