<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">I love singing together. This is one of the legacies of the Order for us here at Songaia. ♥️♥️</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 10, 2025, at 4:52 PM, Milan Hamilton via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Sounds good (resonates) with me. MM</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM Don Bushman 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="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default">"<span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:20.39px">so long as I was possessed by this spirit, it would be literally impossible for me deliberately to injure another human being.' The quote from Weigel from Auden.</span></div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:20.39px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:20.39px">One of my realizations from the Tillich game at the end of that RS1 seminar (am I accepted Dr. Tillich?) has allowed me to see the relationship of my behavior to the "I am-ness" of my life. The radical (as in root) state of existence is our wholeness at every moment. When we choose between taking this action or that action, we manifest how we have taken responsibility for our behavior. We demonstrate what we pay obeisance to and how we alone are to answer for our choice.</span></div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:20.39px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:20.39px">When I am at peace, well emotionally regulated, as I imagine Auden was at the time of his experience, I have on occasion known my own wholeness-aware of my own comfort (safety) in the moment at the same time seeing that in the people around me.</span></div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:20.39px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:20.39px">I notice this feeling when my body, especially the emotional feeling state of my body, is calm, what others would call regulated. It is only when dysregulated that I choose behavior which is harmful to my neighbor. Ah, and dysregulation can come from being in a state of joy or intimate attraction, not just fear. (Although fear might be the deeply buried underlying emotion which drives our reproductive urges) </span></div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:20.39px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:20.39px">Because of our colleague David Dunn, I have encountered Jacob Collier. He has reminded me of the emotion altering power of music as well as demonstrating how singing together creates a shared safe space. It may be that singing together is the practice (as in spiritual practice) which most quickly regulates us and encourages this feeling of connection Auden Wiegel Laphear Hamilton and Hamilton speak of.</span></div><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Don Bushman<br></div><div><img width="96" height="77" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4zOIu3LEC6MFTWTu0KY7E502yfIl5gyrUcU9KlzwS-rSnRYeib0f_TPP7f9TiS5-tpufMUq26vAwWag" data-unique-identifier=""> <img width="96" height="96" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4wgIOy7oWy3z_VRwzsBpODEX3NNQ9JDo77bNqvSsjWJ9GswXJj_6KMPdFE-dzLVIcOLFPbwXCt5GgEQ" data-unique-identifier=""><br></div><div>828-292-9696<b><br></b></div><br></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 8:47 AM Linda Hamilton 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"><div dir="auto">Yes the Haikus came first, then the music from an ai app. I asked for a tune that would fit the Haiku style and the mood of the six verses as a whole. I was also reminded me of the preschool song we used to sing “When I’m on my journey there is no one there but me .. etc.” <br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 10, 2025, at 4:52 AM, James Wiegel via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">In the land of the lonely — thanks for the song, Milan, are the verses really haiku? Wow.<div><br></div><div>your song addressed my life. All your songs do: putting verse out there, not just “watching all the world go by” and this one reminded me of the final solitude I am dancing around. (Judy and I are both updating our living trust and hosting 2 grandkids — so full of life and energy and clearly living in a different, if not other world.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, and only indirectly related, I had come across that statement from Auden and wanted somehow to pass it on. The two got conflated, vs. dealing with the impact of each on its own.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, again, and kudos to your writing group.<br id="m_-7344258722470548895m_2327833985801237662m_5286686939884167909m_7039363273606595333lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13pt">Jim Wiegel</span><br><div>
<p><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“…the long work<br>
of turning their lives<br>
into a celebration<br>
is not easy. Come </span><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);font-size:19pt">and let us talk</span><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);font-size:19pt">“. </span></p><p><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);font-size:19pt">The Sunflowers. Mary Oliver</span></p></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 8, 2025, at 9:34 AM, Milan Hamilton via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Yes Nancy, I wasn’t sure of my response would be to what Jim responded with, but I have even found in these past few years that occurring in a “strange bedfellowhood group,” my writing group has a black former teacher and a Mexican American, a Brit, a woman who grew up in a village in Germany whose mother was killed in her house she was building by American bombers on the last days of the war, all of the former who are sympathetic if not enthusiastic with my political persuasions. Several Christians evangelicals, a couple of Seventh Day Adventists, and at least two MAGA Republicans, one who thinks Trump is the Messiah (my interpretation). The point of my lengthy context is that when the members of this group are writing their stories and talking about their lives instead of their beliefs, on a number of our two hour sharing sessions, what Jim and you are referring to seems to be present in the room. Milan<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 8, 2025, at 12:03 AM, Nancy Lanphear via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Thanks Jim, for sharing this piece by W H Auden. I’ve had a similar experience again and again with various configurations here in my community. Living in community and constantly meeting in groups or individuals “on the path” ….. it reminds me how fortunate I am to have a home in which to practice the experience of “fellow hood” over and over again. </div><div dir="ltr">Sent with love. ❤️ </div><div dir="ltr">Nancy</div><div dir="ltr"><br><div dir="ltr"></div><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 7, 2025, at 9:27 PM, James Wiegel via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Thanks, Milan. An abrupt ending.<div><br></div><div>I ran across this from W. H. Auden last week. I think it is somehow related . . .</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px;font-size:20.4px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:20.39px">What we used to mean by fellowhood</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:20.4px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;min-height:25.8px"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:20.39px"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:20.4px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:20.39px">"One fine summer night in June 1933 l was sitting on a lawn after dinner with three colleagues, two women and one man. We liked each other well enough but we were certainly not intimate friends, nor had any one of us a sexual interest in another. Incidentally, we had not drunk any alcohol. We were talking casually about everyday matters when, quite suddenly and unexpectedly, something happened. I felt myself invaded by a power which, though I consented to it, was irresistible and certainly not mine. For the first time in my life I knew exactly — because, thanks to the power, I was doing it - what it means to love one's neighbor as oneself. I was also certain, though the conversation continued to be perfectly ordinary, that my three colleagues were having the same experience. (In the case of one of them, I was later able to confirm this.) My personal feelings towards them were unchanged - they were still colleagues, not intimate friends — but I felt their existence as themselves to be of infinite value and rejoiced in it.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:20.4px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:20.39px">I recalled with shame the many occasions on which I had been spiteful, snobbish, selfish, but the immediate joy was greater than the shame, for 1 knew that, so long as I was possessed by this spirit, it would be literally impossible for me deliberately to injure another human being. I also knew that the power would, of course, be withdrawn sooner or later and that, when it did, my greed and self-regard would return. The experience lasted at its full intensity for about two hours when we said good-night to each other and went to bed. When I awoke the next morning, it was still present, though weaker, and it did not vanish completely for two days or so. The memory of the experience has not prevented me from making use of others, grossly and often, but it has made it much more difficult for me to deceive myself about what I am up to when I do. And among the various factors which several years later brought me back to the Christian faith in which I had been brought up, the memory of this experience and asking myself what it could mean was one of the most crucial, though, at the time it occurred, I thought I had done with Christianity for good."</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:20.4px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:20.39px">~ W. H. Auden, from his Introduction to</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:20.4px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:20.39px">'The Protestant Mystics',</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:20.4px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:20.39px">", edited by</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:20.4px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:20.39px">Anne Freemantle</span></p><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13pt">Jim Wiegel</span><br><div>
<p><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">“We are all time travelers journeying into the future. But let us make that future a place we want to visit. “ </span><span style="font-size:13pt;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Stephen Hawking</span></p></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 6, 2025, at 5:37 PM, Milan Hamilton via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>My writing group, the Joslyn Joy Writers ( a bunch of seniors who meet weekly to share what they are writing. They thought this one was worthy so I am putting it out there. The assignment for the week was to write about the "Land of the Lonesome" but I took a liberty and wrote six "Haikus in the Land of the Lonely" and then put it to a simple tune and added my voice. We have to continue in poetry and song what we can't say any other way these days.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/Mq_uTYpDr28" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/Mq_uTYpDr28</a></div><div><br></div><div>Mellow Milan Hamilton</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>80 North Center Street</div><div>Redlands, CA 92373</div><div>Phone: (909) 943-1667</div><div>email: <a href="mailto:mellowmilan2@gmail.com" target="_blank">mellowmilan2@gmail.com</a></div></div></div></div>
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