<div dir="auto">Dear Marilyn,</div><div dir="auto">When I heard of Joe’s death, I experienced a sharp pain of sadness and loss. What I experienced was but a shadow of what you and the boys (and their families) must be feeling.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">When I think of Joe, I think of strength, solidarity, dependability, and depth. Whenever we were together, sharing assignments, I knew there was a bond between us that guaranteed that there was solidarity of commitment to what needed to be said and done. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">When Gordon Harper was in his last days, he shared with us some of his thinking. He said that he decided that his death was simply his last assignment . He said that he was going into this last assignment knowing that he was the right person in the right place to do the necessary deed. He said that he trusted the Mystery: the Mystery knew what was necessary.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I know Joe was faithful to his calling to the very end. Joe’s life was one great assignment to which he was totally committed.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Grace and Peace to you, the boys, and their families, and to us all,</div><div dir="auto">David Scott</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">From Margaret:</div><div dir="auto">I need to speak from my heart also, Marilyn. This message about Joe is, for me, a paradigm of the greatness of the Institute’s colleagues who have so faithfully, so absolutely stood in this staunch solidarity—in your commitment to ‘what needed to be said and done’. I cherish each of you for who you have always been and for who you are as we gather in Spirit to celebrate Joe. His life is the right symbol for all of your lives and the greatness that abides in you all.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And so I add my wish to you, Marilyn, and to all:</div><div dir="auto">Grace and Peace.</div><div dir="auto">Margaret </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 2:58 PM Mari Crocker via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div style="line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="line-break:after-white-space">Dear Colleagues,<div><br></div><div>Thank you so much for your kind words of condolence and memories of Joe. Here is the link to his obituary: <a href="http://www.directcremationseacoast.com/obituaries/joseph-crocker/" target="_blank">www.directcremationseacoast.com/obituaries/joseph-crocker/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Grace, peace and love,</div><div><br></div><div>Marilyn, Ben and Jon</div></div>
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