<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Happy Birthday, Joe!<div>Here’s to the most influential man in my life..</div><div><div>Ever grateful, Ken<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 8, 2023, at 10:35 AM, Robertson Work via Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Today, we celebrate the 112<span><sup>th</sup> birthday of our teacher Joe Mathews. And on the 16<span><sup>th</sup> of this month, we mark the day that he died at the age of sixty-six. Gratitude for his clarity, wisdom, and passion to serve the least, the last, and the lost. Now in our time of chaos, collapse, and transformation, may we each be strengthened by his words and deeds. </span></span></div><div class="elementToProof" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br></div><div id="Signature"><div><span data-ogsc="rgb(0, 0, 0)" data-ogsb="rgb(255, 255, 255)" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="rgb(255, 255, 255)" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Robertson Work</span></span><br><span data-ogsc="rgb(0, 0, 0)" data-ogsb="rgb(255, 255, 255)" style="font-size: 14pt; 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