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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Colleagues,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">As soon as I sent my thoughts on grief, etc. I googled "Humpty Dumpty effect", and here's what I found! Though it's very late-20th-century, so is the O:E. Not to mention ToP, etc.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Enjoy! And maybe take this another step into the 21st century.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Marshall</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><a href="http://www.spiral-dynamics.com/theory/chngtran.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="enhancr_card_0443790984">Humpty Dumpty Effect</a><br></div><div><br></div><div id="ydpd54ab667enhancr_card_0443790984" class="ydpd54ab667yahoo-link-enhancr-card ydpd54ab667ymail-preserve-class ydpd54ab667ymail-preserve-style" style="max-width:400px;font-family:YahooSans, Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" data-url="http://www.spiral-dynamics.com/theory/chngtran.htm" data-type="YENHANCER" data-size="MEDIUM" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.spiral-dynamics.com/theory/chngtran.htm" style="text-decoration:none !important;color:#000 !important" class="ydpd54ab667yahoo-enhancr-cardlink" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><table border="0" class="ydpd54ab667card-wrapper ydpd54ab667yahoo-ignore-table" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width:400px"><tbody><tr><td width="400"><table border="0" class="ydpd54ab667card ydpd54ab667yahoo-ignore-table" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="max-width:400px;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(224, 228, 233);border-radius:2px"><tbody><tr><td class="ydpd54ab667card-primary-image-cell" background="https://s.yimg.com/lo/api/res/1.2/Ro3EpQ.90gB3jd1VE9OkKQ--~A/Zmk9ZmlsbDt3PTQwMDtoPTIwMDthcHBpZD1pZXh0cmFjdA--/http://www.spiral-dynamics.com/../Resources/humpty.jpg.cf.jpg" bgcolor="#000000" valign="top" height="175" style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-size: cover; position: relative; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; min-height: 175px;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><v:rect fill="true" stroke="false" style="width:396px;height:175px;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;"><v:fill type="frame" color="#000000" src="https://s.yimg.com/lo/api/res/1.2/Ro3EpQ.90gB3jd1VE9OkKQ--~A/Zmk9ZmlsbDt3PTQwMDtoPTIwMDthcHBpZD1pZXh0cmFjdA--/http://www.spiral-dynamics.com/../Resources/humpty.jpg.cf.jpg"/></v:rect><![endif]--><table border="0" class="ydpd54ab667card-overlay-container-table ydpd54ab667yahoo-ignore-table" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:100%"><tbody><tr><td class="ydpd54ab667card-overlay-cell" background="https://s.yimg.com/cv/ae/nq/storm/assets/enhancrV21/1/enhancr_gradient-400x175.png" bgcolor="transparent" valign="top" style="background-color: transparent; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; min-height: 175px;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><v:rect fill="true" stroke="false" style="width:396px;height:175px;position:absolute;top:-18px;left:0;"><v:fill type="pattern" color="#000000" src="https://s.yimg.com/cv/ae/nq/storm/assets/enhancrV21/1/enhancr_gradient-400x175.png"/><v:textbox inset="0,0,20px,0"><![endif]--><table border="0" class="ydpd54ab667yahoo-ignore-table" height="175" style="width: 100%; min-height: 175px;"><tbody><tr><td class="ydpd54ab667card-richInfo2" style="text-align:left;padding:15px 0 0 15px;vertical-align:top"></td><td class="ydpd54ab667card-actions" style="text-align:right;padding:15px 15px 0 0;vertical-align:top"><div class="ydpd54ab667card-share-container"></div></td></tr></tbody></table><!--[if gte mso 9]></v:textbox></v:rect><![endif]--></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" align="center" class="ydpd54ab667card-info ydpd54ab667yahoo-ignore-table" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background:#fff;position:relative;z-index:2;width:100%;max-width:400px;border-radius:0 0 2px 2px;border-top:1px solid rgb(224, 228, 233)"><tbody><tr><td style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:16px 0 16px 12px;vertical-align:top;border-radius:0 0 0 2px"></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;padding:12px 24px 16px 12px;width:99%;font-family:YahooSans, Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;border-radius:0 0 2px 0"><h2 class="ydpd54ab667card-title" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-family: YahooSans, Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 40, 42); max-width: 314px;">Humpty Dumpty Effect</h2><p class="ydpd54ab667card-description" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(151, 155, 167);"></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Saturday, January 9, 2021, 07:58:08 AM PST, Ellie Stock via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">Good morning from the Left Coast.</div>
<div dir="ltr">When Twitter permanently removed Donald Trump's account yesterday, I became aware that what we are experiencing is a sudden, precipitous 'political death.'</div>
<div dir="ltr">What I think we're all experiencing, to some degree, is the 'layering' of many forms of personal and corporate grief. Simultaneously. So that focusing on one layer can obscure the others.</div>
<div dir="ltr">So, rather than expound on grief like a theological expert, I'm just offering an outline of my thoughts, so that each of us can build upon them or change them in true 'corporate mind' fashion.</div>
<div dir="ltr">I'm sure that Jack will be up for this, and maybe many more!</div>
<div dir="ltr">Here goes. 'Happy' New Year!</div>
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<div class="yiv9688716361ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;">being the sensitive and responsive part of society (HRNiebuhr)</div>
<div dir="ltr">awareness that we participate in the stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance (Elizabeth Kubler-Ross)</div>
<div class="yiv9688716361ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;">political grief – sudden loss of a hero/saint: assassination, dethronement, impeachment (Humpty Dumpty effect)</div>
<div class="yiv9688716361ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;">social grief – loss of our ability to be physically together in community and denial of our desire for others (Covid-19 pandemic)</div>
<div>economic grief – loss of job, career, means of sustenance, economic fabric (the Great Depression)</div>
<div class="yiv9688716361ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;">personal/familial grief – loss an intimate relationship due to death, divorce, miscarriage, or estrangement</div>
<div class="yiv9688716361ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;">grief over our awareness of our mortality, anticipatory grief, mass extinction events</div>
<div class="yiv9688716361ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;">grief is a natural social process</div>
<div class="yiv9688716361ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;">holding on and letting go</div>
<div class="yiv9688716361ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;">grief and transformation</div>
<div class="yiv9688716361ydpae1bdacbMsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;">individual grief and corporate grief</div>
<div>denial of the grief process, inability to grieve, ‘rebound’ relationships</div>
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