<div dir="ltr">Thank you, Isobel, for the fond memories.<div><br></div><div>Jann McGuire</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM Sunny Walker 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:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Isabel,</div><div dir="auto">I'm ao grateful for your kind words of wisdom. Beautiful a d poetic reminders. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">With love, grace, and peace to us all, in abundant blessings,</div><div dir="auto">Sunny</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><i>Sunny Walker </i></font><div><div dir="ltr"><i><font face="arial, sans-serif">She/her/hers</font></i></div><div dir="ltr"><i><font face="arial, sans-serif">On </font></i><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif"><i>Arapaho, Cheyenne, Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute), and Očeti Šakówiŋ (Sioux) tribal land</i></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif"><i><img width="200" height="71" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4wPZyPY_WvsB1jy2GzPMb8pu58faklRdoOJQo2voecFQf7GxG2gsHYpUU7cAq4vfXWdUpp55rU"><br></i></span></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><i></i></font><div>Certified Facilitator (Also Certified ToP Facilitator) </div><div>ToP Methods Mentor Trainer - <a href="https://www.top-training.net/w/" target="_blank">Upcoming Courses</a></div><div>Virtual Facilitation Collaborative Senior Facilitator</div><div><a href="mailto:sunny.sunwalker@gmail.com" target="_blank">sunny.sunwalker@gmail.com</a></div><div>303-587-3017</div><div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">For diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging inquiries:</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="mailto:sunny@diversityinnovators.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">sunny@diversityinnovators.com</a></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="http://www.diversityinnovators.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.diversityinnovators.com</a></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></div></div><div>For virtual facilitation inquiries:<br></div><div><a href="mailto:sunny@virtualfacilitationcollaborative.com" target="_blank">sunny@virtualfacilitationcollaborative.com</a></div><div><a href="http://www.virtualfacilitationcollaborative.com" target="_blank">www.virtualfacilitationcollaborative.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 24, 2025, 5:27 AM Isobel and Jim Bishop via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Dear friends,<br>
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Thank you Michael for posting the Knowing The Unknowable. I found it very comforting, in it's own way. I was happy to see my friends, Gene, Brian and Jack once more too. <br>
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I wrote to Herman earlier to express my condolences over the death of Joy. She was a beautiful young woman and I felt I came to know her even though I don’t remember actually working with her. <br>
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I wrote to Gene when he retired from Realistic Living in early January this year. Jim and I have been subscribers for umpteen years, I forget how long now. I remember Gene so well here in Australia, when he came down <br>
to teach the Academy here in a north west suburb of Sydney. He was much loved as a spirit person and managed to straddle the no longer and the not yet very creatively. I grieve his passing on, yet know he is resting and has left a legacy of good thoughts in all his writings. The book David has written has been a blessing to me, and gave so many insights into Gene as a human being. I was very fond of Gene. What a gift David has given us. My family are all reading David’s book. <br>
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For Larry, I would like to say that over the years we corresponded on Facebook- what a beautiful human being he was as he grew in inner silence and stillness. I was with Dianne Greenwald at the Local Community Convocation in Atlanta- the LCC was held in a classroom in a School in a poor part of Atlanta. I have often thought of the joy of that occasion, as I watched the all black participants wrestling with the contradictions in the workshop. I had never seen such righteous anger and passion as the group almost came to fisticuffs over stating what they all wanted to say about the contradictions. I remember on the flight back to Chicago Larry was at times very quiet, and then he would burst into laughter. <br>
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Dear Milan, I so much enjoyed your poem, thank you. <br>
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It is now almost 21 months since Jim died. I am walking daily with grief, and yet lately I have had the most extraordinary experiences of Jim being present in my dreams, dressed as he always was, and talking to me, to encourage me. I have had a strength and felt a deep purpose to live life abundantly. My three adult family and 5 grandchildren have been a constant presence and each one gifts me with their own gift. After the years of separation and deep trauma mentioned by others in previous posts, I am truly grateful to God or Being or the Unknowable. <br>
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I pray every day for you all, and for your country. It seems Australia is growing up and turning in a different direction from our long held dependence on your country. Our Prime Minister is forging a more independent alignment with different countries, and it is an important time to be an observer! <br>
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With my love and sent with peace in my heart and grace that we all will continue to journey on, while we have breath. <br>
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