<div style="color:black;font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks for sending, Jim, and for yours and the team's leadership with these conversations and reflections.
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<div>Edna St VIncent Millay--right on target...</div>
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<div>I found myself reading notes from a talk on the implications of space exploration on human beings and our view of ourselves from Paul Tillich . . . Starting with the Renaissance . .. and watching 3 Spider-Man movies and also “Don’t Look Up”. Judy is listening to Amy Goodman’s retrospective including homage to Desmond Tutu and interviews with Edward Snowden.
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<div>Thanks for the summary. How do we create more circles or spirals of reflection …. This from Edna St. Vincent Millay via Deb Burnight an anchor of ToP in western Iowa: <h4 style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;font-size:18px;line-height:29px;">Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour,<br>
Rains from the sky a meteoric shower<br>
Of facts . . . they lie unquestioned, uncombined<br>
Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill<br>
Is daily spun, but there exists no loom<br style="margin-bottom:0px;">To weave it into fabric.”</h4>
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<div style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;line-height:28px;color:rgb(119, 119, 119);font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;">Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Upon This Age That Never Speaks Its Mind,” Collected Sonnets (New York: Harper Perennial, 1988), 140.</div>
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<span>Thank you for your description of the care and compassion of the ongoing vision as you honoured the work of ICA 2021.</span><br>
<span>With every blessing for the continuation of the work on the ground in many countries in 2022. May the General Assembly bring hopes and dreams together on January 15.</span><br>
<span>Grace and peace,</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>On 23 Dec 2021, at 12:48 pm, Karen Snyder via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:</span><br>
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</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>You may have heard about, or even participated in, the global ICA conversations December 11th. Hosted by the Global Schedule Team and the ICAI Communications Team, we honored 2021 and shared glimmerings of the future. </span><br>
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</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>The attached is a sharing - a bit of documentation - to give you a taste of the events, to connect you with colleagues, and to inspire you with thinking about the future that emerged in the conversations. </span><br>
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