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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Another member of our meditative council passes on. I only worked with Joe once setting up the Pisinemo project in Arizona and we had an argument over some issue. I remember it well because he really listened to me and "fought" very fairly. I was grateful because I wasn't skilled at arguing. It gave me courage.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Joan Knutson</div><div><br></div>
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On Friday, April 28, 2023 at 11:58:38 PM MST, Elisabeth Banks via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp117e1413yiv1276452923"><div><div>Dear Marilyn,</div><div>So sad to hear of Joe‘s passing, but wonderful that you were all there to celebrate his amazing life. I will never forget him or you at all The HDPs. I have thought of you many times over the years, especially when I was unable to write and was not so good on dictation either We both avidly, read your Christmas letters. I will not forget working with Joe on the contradictions for Maliwada-his patience and persistence, until we finally realised that the ones we had done prior to the latest were much better – we laughed. I will not forget his kindness and his approachable leadership.</div><div>I will think of him always as a great man.</div><div>I send my love and sympathies to you and to Ben And Jon and their families</div><div>Elisabeth Banks</div><div><br clear="none"><div class="ydp117e1413yiv1276452923gmail_quote"><div id="ydp117e1413yiv1276452923yqtfd85285" class="ydp117e1413yiv1276452923yqt9451230142"><div dir="ltr" class="ydp117e1413yiv1276452923gmail_attr">On Sat, 29 Apr 2023 at 1:53 pm, Jann McGuire via OE <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;" class="ydp117e1413yiv1276452923gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Marilyn,<div><br clear="none"></div><div>Sending you and your family love and blessings as you celebrate Joe's earthly life.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>My memory is not so trustworthy these days, but how could I forget you and Joe treating Fred and me to a lobster dinner when we visited another friend in Portland?</div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Jann McGuire</div></div><br clear="none"><div class="ydp117e1413yiv1276452923gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="ydp117e1413yiv1276452923gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 1:02 PM Mari Crocker via OE <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;" class="ydp117e1413yiv1276452923gmail_quote"><div><div>Dear Colleagues on the Long March of Love,</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Just a note to say my beloved Joe passed on to the "next chapter" yesterday at 5:41 AM, after a nearly 48-hour, post-stroke journey. </div><div>Ben, Jon and I were with him for most of that time, and it was a deeply meaning-filled experience of remembering with gratitude. </div><div>All 4 grandchildren and both daughters-in-law were able to visit early in the process of our “watching, waiting and standing present". </div><div>The staff at Watson Fields were amazingly loving and supportive during our sojourn, and gathered to witness Joe's “send-out” into the funeral hearse, accompanied by the singing of <i>Amazing Grace</i>.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>God gives, and God takes away, and we give thanks.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Grace and Peace,</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Marilyn </div></div>_______________________________________________<br clear="none">
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