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<div>From Chief Tecumseh (1768-1813):</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">even a stranger, when in a lonely place.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Trouble no one about their religion.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Show respect to all people and grovel to none.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div>
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On Monday, May 15, 2023 at 01:23:29 PM PDT, Karen Snyder via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv8160876609"><div>In the December Archive sojourn, we read excerpts from Hesse’s <u>Journey to the East</u> which I paraphrase here: It was our destiny to join in a great experience; we were all permitted to be a participant in a unique journey. What wonder it had …. Four giant men who participated with us on the unique journey - the crimson line - have left us within a month: Joe Crocker (April 27), Bud Ames (May 4), Nelson Stover (May 4) and Bill Grow (May 14). See memorials created to celebrate their lives here: <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://icaglobalarchives.org/memorials/">https://icaglobalarchives.org/memorials/</a> (Bill’s is yet to come). <div><br clear="none"></div><div>For those of you who may not be as familiar with the Ames family, Bud and his wife, Jan, were Guardians who gave ground support to 5th City and the EI/ICA for some thirty years they lived in Oak Park/Chicago. While Jan taught in the 5th City Preschool and directed Training Inc. in DuPage County, Bud was the permeator of the family. However, while the Human Development Project consults were happening, Dr. Ames, in his quiet gracious manner would attend the consults as a veterinarian and work with the Agriculture Teams and introduce them to animal husbandry methods. He turned his daily running into supporting passions he had to address poverty and hunger by raising thousands of dollars for Heifer International. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>For these four giants, we are singing, "When Iron Men go marching in”. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Peace,</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Karen Snyder Troxel</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><div><br clear="none"><blockquote type="cite"><div id="yiv8160876609yqtfd53616" class="yiv8160876609yqt1419100618"><div>On May 15, 2023, at 1:27 PM, Herman Greene via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:</div><br clear="none" class="yiv8160876609Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr">With heavy heart I have just learned of the deaths of these three great souls. <div><br clear="none"></div><div>The fruits of their labor will flourish and grow.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Herman</div></div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv8160876609gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="yiv8160876609gmail_attr">On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 12:16 PM Ruth Gilbert via OE <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">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="yiv8160876609gmail_quote"><div style="">Ellen,<div><br clear="none"></div><div>Ken and I had a conversation about all three of these men at our breakfast table this morning. Ellen, I appreciated that you gathered their names together, named their blessing to us and allowed us to sing with you, and for them. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>These events remind us once again, that we have but one life to live, and one life to give. These men are demonstrations of the choices they made and the gifts they offered during their lifetimes. We who remain living, are called by them to make choices and offer the gifts that we have. </div><div>Ruth <br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On May 15, 2023, at 10:20 AM, David Rebstock via OE <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div><br clear="none"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small;" class="yiv8160876609gmail_default">We celebrate the completed lives of three giants who passed on to glory in the last week: Joe Crocker, Nelson Stover and Bill Grow. What a blessing they have all been to our lives with their wisdom, patience and spirit. I'm singing "For All The Saints" in my heart. Ellen Rebstock</div></div>
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