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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I was at the University of Colorado 1965 to 1969 where I was majoring in skiing and minoring in engineering <span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif'>😊</span>. Kenneth Boulding spoke on campus at an anti-Vietnam war rally outdoors at the student center. His passionate context about the senseless loss of life on both sides, jolted my awareness of the conflict and gave me reason to resist and to refuse to serve although my draft lottery number had already been called up. I managed to qualify for a series of deferments: student, marriage, defense industry job, and then a religious deferment as prior responsible for 15 members of the Order Ecumenical living in the Cleveland Religious House. Forever grateful to Don and Claudia Cramer, Cleveland House Priors, for strategy building conversations and to Frank Hilliard who wrote a letter to the Draft Board requesting a deferment on religious grounds. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Praying for Peace in Ukraine and Gaza. / Sherwood <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> OE <oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Milan Hamilton via OE<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, December 16, 2023 1:58 AM<br><b>To:</b> Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net><br><b>Cc:</b> Milan Hamilton <mellowmilan2@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Oe List ...] Remember Kenneth Boulding?<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I remember having the opportunity to have a conversation with him in a small group of Quakers, when i was living in Nebraska. It was in the mid-1960s. I just remember this soft spoken man with long flowing white hair who seemed to be wise, sitting in a circle with us and sharing in conversation about nonviolent demonstrations and the peace movement. Milan H. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from my iPad<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On Dec 15, 2023, at 2:26 PM, James Wiegel via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>Don't we all? Hard to let go of<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>Jim Wiegel</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=p1><span class=s1>“…the long work</span><br><span class=s1>of turning their lives</span><br><span class=s1>into a celebration</span><br><span class=s1>is not easy. Come </span><span style='font-size:19.0pt'>and let us talk“. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=p1><span style='font-size:19.0pt'>The Sunflowers. Mary Oliver</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On Dec 15, 2023, at 3:10 PM, <a href="mailto:carletonstock@aol.com">carletonstock@aol.com</a> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Seems like Trump instinctively knows this (and uses it for his own promotion and defense)!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Carleton Stock<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>St. Louis<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="ydp62ebc061yahoo_quoted_2835577776"><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>On Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 11:08:51 PM CST, Nancy Trask via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote: <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div id=ydp62ebc061yiv2598789781><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>A long and fearsome/fascinating article. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>Nancy Trask<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div id=ydp62ebc061yiv2598789781yqt70987><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 6:33 PM James Wiegel via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></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><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>"What this means is that for any individual organism or organization, there are no such things as "facts." There are<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>only messages filtered through a changeable value system. This statement may sound rather startling."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>This from the paper we used in the 1969 version of the Imaginal Education Colloquy . . .<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>See below an article on the history of "the fact"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="ydp62ebc061yiv2598789781m_1720101984372329378ydp13dbf916yahoo_quoted_2781594727"><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div id="ydp62ebc061yiv2598789781m_1720101984372329378ydp13dbf916yiv2509886917"><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><a href="https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/what-was-the-fact" target="_blank">An obituary for the fact</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="ydp62ebc061yiv2598789781m_1720101984372329378ydpdaae957fenhancr_card_3242575725"><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='max-width:300.0pt'><tr><td width=400 style='width:300.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='max-width:300.0pt;border:solid #E0E4E9 1.0pt'><tr style='height:105.0pt'><td valign=top style='border:none;background:black;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:105.0pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:11.25pt 0in 0in 11.25pt'></td><td valign=top style='padding:11.25pt 11.25pt 0in 0in'></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td style='border:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;border-radius:0px 0px 0px 2px'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='max-width:300.0pt;background:white;border:none;border-top:solid #E0E4E9 1.0pt;border-radius:0px 0px 2px 2px'><tr><td valign=top style='border:none;padding:12.0pt 0in 12.0pt 9.0pt'></td><td width="99%" style='width:99.0%;border:none;padding:9.0pt .25in 12.0pt 9.0pt;border-radius:0px 0px 2px'><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:14.25pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1D2228'>An obituary for the fact<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='margin:0in;line-height:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#979EA8'>Farewell to a friend of social harmony (1500–2000)<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>Jim Wiegel</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>“…the long work<br>of turning their lives<br>into a celebration<br>is not easy. 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Mary Oliver</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>_______________________________________________<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></span></p></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div><div id=ydp62ebc061yqt96667><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A'>_______________________________________________<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></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>OE mailing list<br><a href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>