<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;">How extraordinarily wonderful !!!<div><br></div><div>Thank-you, Stan !</div><div>Thank-you, Ann !</div><div>Thank-you, Maryellen !</div><div>Thank-you, Michael !</div><div>Thank-you, O:E !</div><div><br></div><div>Along side of the injuries and abuse, my sons loved the Brussels House, all its kids, and Tim Casswell’s story telling. (80-83)</div><div><br></div><div>In Montreal, with their partners and their 7 kids, they live across the street from one another. They love their collectivity and care.</div><div><br></div><div>Ken</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:8A8211F4-C436-4DA3-B621-D3244EA63560" alt="Screenshot 2025-07-17 at 6.55.38 PM.png" width="754"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 17, 2025, at 11:10 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: 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="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: 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; float: none; display: inline !important;">_______________________________________________</span><br 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;"><span 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; float: none; display: inline !important;">OE mailing list</span><br 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;"><a href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); text-decoration: underline; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; 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: 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;"><a href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); text-decoration: underline; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; 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>