<div dir="auto">A long and fearsome/fascinating article. </div><div dir="auto">Thanks,</div><div dir="auto">Nancy Trask</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 6:33 PM James Wiegel 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><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">"What this means is that for any individual organism or organization, there are no such things as "facts." There are</div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">only messages filtered through a changeable value system. This statement may sound rather startling."</div></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">This from the paper we used in the 1969 version of the Imaginal Education Colloquy . . .</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">See below an article on the history of "the fact"</div></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div id="m_1720101984372329378ydp13dbf916yahoo_quoted_2781594727"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(38,40,42)"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></div>
<div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div id="m_1720101984372329378ydp13dbf916yiv2509886917" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/what-was-the-fact" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">An obituary for the fact</a><br></div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div id="m_1720101984372329378ydpdaae957fenhancr_card_3242575725" style="max-width:400px;font-family:"YahooSans VF",YahooSans,"Helvetica Neue","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/what-was-the-fact" style="font-family:"YahooSans VF",YahooSans,"Helvetica Neue","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none!important;color:rgb(0,0,0)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width:400px;font-family:"YahooSans VF",YahooSans,"Helvetica Neue","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><tbody style="font-family:"YahooSans VF",YahooSans,"Helvetica Neue","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><tr style="font-family:"YahooSans VF",YahooSans,"Helvetica Neue","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><td width="400" style="font-family:"YahooSans VF",YahooSans,"Helvetica Neue","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="max-width:400px;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-radius:2px;font-family:"YahooSans VF",YahooSans,"Helvetica Neue","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(224,228,233)"><tbody style="font-family:"YahooSans VF",YahooSans,"Helvetica Neue","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><tr style="font-family:"YahooSans VF",YahooSans,"Helvetica Neue","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><td background="https://s.yimg.com/lo/api/res/1.2/VxcL4AX47mvZ7dISdOpqIg--~A/Zmk9ZmlsbDt3PTQwMDtoPTIwMDthcHBpZD1pZXh0cmFjdA--/https://www.thenewatlantis.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Askonas-share-card-banner.jpg.cf.jpg" bgcolor="#000000" valign="top" height="175" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; 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<p style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">“…the long work<br>
of turning their lives<br>
into a celebration<br>
is not easy. Come </span><span style="font-size:19pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">and let us talk</span><span style="font-size:19pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">“. </span></p><p style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:19pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The Sunflowers. Mary Oliver</span></p></div></div></div></div>
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