<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">My love and heart and prayers go out to you both and family. A quote from Rumi helps keep me going as I remember our son Christopher who died from stage 4 Prostate Cancer at the age 56 and the poem he gave to George the week before he died to share upon his death🦋<div>…..In peace & love, Wanda💓💞</div><div><br></div><div><p class="b-qt qt_597890" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 37px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom….</span><a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/rumi-quotes" class="qa_597890 oncl_a" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 170); text-decoration: none;">Rumi</a></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Chris’ Poem</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Death Is Nothing At All</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">I have only slipped into the next room.</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">I am I and you are you.</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Call me by my old familiar name,</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Speak to me in the easy way which you always used.</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Put no difference into your tone.</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Laugh as we always laughed, at the little jokes we enjoyed together.</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Let my name be ever the household word that it always was.</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Let it be spoken without effort, without the trace of shadow on it.</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Life means all that it ever meant.</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">It is the same as it ever was.</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">There is unbroken continuity.</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?</span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">All is well.</p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Song: Somewhere Over the Rainbow </span></p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fahr069-fzE">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fahr069-fzE</a></span></p><div><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 10, 2023, at 5:03 PM, Shankland, Sherwood via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style>@font-face { font-family: "Cambria Math"; }
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Dear Karen, Jim, and Elizabeth,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">So sudden and so unexpected, we are holding you in our hearts.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Much love, Sherwood and Eunice<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thanks, Jonathan<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The sound of silence seems louder these days…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">as our children and colleagues, family and friends cross the finish line ahead of us.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">And for now, all is quiet out there… and in here… as we grieve again...<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Joe’s long journey, Nelson’s slow decline, Bill’s peaceful departure…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">just to name a few… and now Jonathan, your sudden exit… Ouch!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Journey on my friends… we’ll join you by-and-by…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">and for now, we’ll carry the torch of living that you’ve passed along.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">As we connect to recall shared moments and days<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">we reach for stories of joy, and struggle, and care along the way…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">to celebrate the awesome Mystery of your life and ours.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">and for now, we embrace the sound of silence once again <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We stand in a place of deep gratitude for you, Jonathan, Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In peace, Sherwood<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Jun 8, 2023, 1:18 PM Karen Snyder via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Greetings - especially to those of you who knew our son, Jonathan Troxel,<br><br>Yesterday, June 6, Jonathan suffered a cardiac arrest (triggered by asthma attacks possibly exacerbated by the air pollution from the Canadian wildfires) and died. He has had asthma since he was child. He began having strong problems with his breathing last Thursday, saw a doctor on Saturday, but still continued to have issues. Before going to work Tuesday, he texted us that he had another asthma attack, but was feeling better and proceeded to go to work. After he had walked the one block to work at the Admiral at the Lake Retirement Center, he told his staff colleagues that he was breathless and collapsed. All the nurses from the Admiral, the EMT paramedics and the hospital ER team were not able to revive him.<br><br>This of course has been a great shock to our lives - Jim and I as well as Jonathan’s wife, Elizabeth. We are in the midst of deciding what are the appropriate ways to celebrate his life. Although we don’t know who is reading this email, you too may have had experiences of death that you have wrestled with how to celebrate the life of your loved one. We thought sharing about Jonathan through the Dialogues was one way to celebrate.<br><br>If Jonathan knew you, he loved you. Any time someone would visit Jim and I, he wanted to see them too. He loved his experiences as a child in the Order, singing “Try to Remember” in the Student House, and was disappointed when Jim and I left the Order community. He has been pleased that Jim and I have re-engaged with the ICA. In the past couple of years he has enjoyed working with the Phase I files of the Global Archives in order to have them put on its website. And he has kept up with the lives of many who have transitioned from this life. Now he is among them.<br><br>Jim, Elizabeth and I are grateful for the messages and phone calls we have received. Each and every one is meaningful to us. Thank you.<br><br>Take good care of yourselves, especially in these days of uncertain air quality or illnesses. Life is precious and mysterious. <br><br>Peace and love,<br><br>Karen and Jim Troxel</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">_______________________________________________<br>OE mailing list<br><a href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>OE mailing list</span><br><span>OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</span><br><span>http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</span><br></div></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>