<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Judi, <div><br></div><div>Your sweet OE community post choked me up, as much as I could after learning to stuff my emotions as an Order Kid. </div><div><br></div><div>As I’d indicated in my marketing posts prior to publication, my primary audience is both Order Kids and Order Adults, with the full realization that Order Adults are a dying breed in 2025. My own mom died three years ago at 91, and by the Grace of God, my dad is still alive with almost full faculties at 93. I’m happy that he is still alive to see IRON BOY debut.</div><div><br></div><div>I visited Dad and my step-mom Joyce in Texas recently, and helped him edit his own memoir. Funny how two family members living together and apart can experience two very different lives at the same time. Parallel universes. But he has come around that although creating a Family Order was an audacious “Grand Experiment” with lofty intentions, that so many Order Adults, including himself, were ill equipped emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually to pull it off, especially with regard to caring for the children, and exacerbated by the drive to scale the global presence and scope of the mission so quickly without sufficiently trained human capacity. Since he’s one of the few Order elders still alive, I’m relieved to see that he committed that to print in his upcoming autobiography.</div><div><br></div><div>I’m delighted to hear you thought enough of my story to pass it along to your three sons. I was in the book publishing industry for 16 years as an editor, marketer, and executive; and I learned that books with staying power do so because satisfied readers pass them along to others who may benefit from the messages as well. Thank you, thank you! 🙏 </div><div><br></div><div>The Future Is Open,</div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Sent from my iPad</div><div>David Marshall</div><div>www.marshallbooks.net</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 19, 2025, at 3:25 AM, Judi White <judiwhite070@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">David, purchased Iron Boy to give to my 3 sons, reading it first. I experienced it as an account straight from the heart. Cried as regrets for awful emerging generation parenting as well as abandoning my own sons. Your publishing this is a healing balm for all of us, understanding the whole experience as collective as well as a personal responsibility. The final chapter, the hiking trip encounter, holds the call to all all inone image. Your father is right, in spite of or because of it all, the emerged generation is ready for this period in human history. Thank you for sharing your heart and soul with your gift of writing true wisdom so clearly. <div dir="auto">Bowing in gratitude.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 15, 2025, 4:02 AM David Marshall via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Former Order Colleagues & Friends,</div><div><br></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Sunday “House Church” Blastoff! (Father’s Day - appropriate launch day since Order fathers loom large in this book)<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">IRON BOY is officially for sale today on Amazon as both a
paperback and e-book.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Iron Man statue is still alive and well in Fifth City sixty
years later. In 2021, I visited Chicago with my wife, daughter, son, and their
partners, and we all went to visit Fifth City and the Iron Man—they for the
first time. Attached are some photos, of me in front of the Iron Man with the
Program Center in the background where I took part of the Academy, the
still-running “Iron Man Can” Fifth City Preschool, and my old elementary school,
now renamed Leif Ericson Scholastic Academy. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Also a vintage wintertime Iron Man
statue photo that I used for the front cover of IRON BOY.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">And finally a little artifact from that era I just received.
I visited my 93-year old dad Gene and 91-year-old step-mom Joyce in Texas recently, and they
gave me this seven-inch-tall metal Iron Man statute that they had picked up along
the way from the Wichita Religious House. Did all the Religious Houses have one?<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">When I raise up my hands like the Iron Man, I think of these
words from the Order song, “Free, free, free to decide, what this world is
going to be.” We've still got a lot of work to do!<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Much appreciation for putting up with my 10-week House Church
countdown to IRON BOY’s debut. If you read it, or share it with others, please
let me know the impact. You can obtain both the paperback and e-book now on Amazon,
and through other bookstores soon. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/IRON-BOY-Searching-Freedom-Religious/dp/B0FCMMVHDC" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/IRON-BOY-Searching-Freedom-Religious/dp/B0FCMMVHDC</a><span><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Grace & Peace,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">David Marshall, <a href="http://www.marshallbooks.net" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">www.marshallbooks.net</a></p><br></div>
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