<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;">Michael,<div>You are correct. Many of these 800+photos are poor or unidentifiable or of difficult composition.</div><div><br></div><div>BUT,</div><div><br></div><div>There are GEMS among the many. And each one that is found holds an entire part of our journey that isn’t found anywhere else. Each one of these special ones are so worth scrolling through the lot. </div><div><br></div><div>AND,</div><div><br></div><div>In addition to individual photos that one or another person might find, there are so many that illuminate what we thought appropriate child raising was. They reveal to us, our infant care, preschoolers, summer camps, Rites of Passage, and so much more. There are so many shots of kids doing skits with costumes on that one might be led to think that is all they did!</div><div><br></div><div>It is with great thanks, and equal amounts of reflection and memory that we peruse these photos. </div><div>Thanks to Ann St. John who had them digitized and to Maryellen who placed each one in the Dropbox, and to you, Michael May, for sharing these out to our large community.</div><div><br></div><div>Ruth Gilbert</div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 17, 2025, at 8:10 AM, Michael May via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 18px; 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="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">David Marshall and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u>Iron Boy</u><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has reignited, once again, the “Family Order,” “Emerging Generation,” “Phase One” conversation among those of us still standing. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Prior to her death in 2019, Ann St. John became the guardian of a box of old photos representing a diverse collection of Emerging Generation history. I am guessing this archive was the collection of Stan Crow. Ann had the photos digitized and our daughter, Maryellen, laboriously placed each of the 800-plus photos on Dropbox which you are welcome to visit and review at this link:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/9ty5tp67w018qb13j4aj4/AE7S_Ly9Z62MczCqXc3nIqI?rlkey=a1bd546m2686lk4lkxy7b5v5p&st=vmhnjkpj&dl=0" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); text-decoration: underline;">https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/9ty5tp67w018qb13j4aj4/AE7S_Ly9Z62MczCqXc3nIqI?rlkey=a1bd546m2686lk4lkxy7b5v5p&st=vmhnjkpj&dl=0</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Most of these photos are poor quality and have limited artistic value. But some will evoke stories from your own memory or present the parameters of a story emerging from the content of the image. Feel free to explore.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Grace and Peace,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 22pt; font-family: "Bradley Hand";">Michael<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 18px; 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; float: none; display: inline !important;">_______________________________________________</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 18px; 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;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 18px; 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; float: none; display: inline !important;">OE mailing list</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 18px; 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;"><a href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); text-decoration: underline; font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 18px; 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;"><a href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); text-decoration: underline; font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>