<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Dharma, and Kevin,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What a rich and wonderful thought! </div><div class="">My granddaughter here has been to Maliwada, and enjoyed her visit. I would love to attend, as I was part of the first HDTS in Maliwada, and what a time we all experienced! </div><div class="">I think I will not attend, my 90th Birthday will soon come up next year, and there are a few other places I would like to visit, including Mowanjum. </div><div class="">My best thoughts for the journey. I hope to attend the Service for Mary Lou tomorrow, a very dear friend. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Isobel </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">
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What a grand idea! We were a later group, but it would be so wonderful to visit with colleagues in India and those we journeyed with in that pioneering venture. John and I aren’t traveling as much these days, but would love to be part of some zoom conversations
and reflections along the way with those who can be present on site and visually. 50 years ago! Glad that you were there! Thankful for your parents’ vision and labors. Lynda and John</div>
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<b class="">Subject: </b>Re: [Oe List ...] Maliwada HDP consult 50th anniversary<br class="">
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I’ve been thinking how to mark the 50th anniversary of the Maliwada HDP (which also marks my 50 years of association with OE/ICA). The most obvious way that came to mind was a visit to Maliwada in Jan 2026. Then I got to thinking how much more meaningful it
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Dharma replied: “What an opportunity it would be to reflect on the vision that brought us there and what our experience and the passage of time says about the future”.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">
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The Parekh farm in Nasik could be an ideal place for such reflections. We could gather in Nasik at the Parekh farm and travel to Maliwada (a 2.5 hour journey each way) or start in Aurangabad, visiting Maliwada and then proceeding to the Parekh farm.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">
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<b class="">Subject:</b> Re: [Oe List ...] Another offering</span></div>
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I love singing together. This is one of the legacies of the Order for us here at Songaia.
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On Sep 10, 2025, at 4:52<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span>PM, Milan Hamilton via OE <<span style="color:blue" class=""><u class=""><a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" style="color:blue;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a></u></span>>
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On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 12:45<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span>PM Don Bushman via OE <<span style="color:blue" class=""><u class=""><a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" style="color:blue;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a></u></span>>
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<span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif;font-size:15.5pt" class="">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
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<span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif;font-size:15.5pt" class="">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
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<span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif;font-size:15.5pt" class="">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
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On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 8:47<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""> </span>AM Linda Hamilton via OE <<span style="color:blue" class=""><u class=""><a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" style="color:blue;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a></u></span>>
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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
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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 —
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif" class=""></span>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
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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
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif" class=""></span>Thanks, Milan. An abrupt ending.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">
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<span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif;font-size:15.5pt" class="">"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-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36pt" class="">
<span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif;font-size:15.5pt" class="">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-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36pt" class="">
<span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif;font-size:15.5pt" class="">~ W. H. Auden, from his Introduction to</span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36pt" class="">
<span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif;font-size:15.5pt" class="">'The Protestant Mystics',</span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36pt" class="">
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<span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody,serif;font-size:15.5pt" class="">Anne Freemantle</span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">
<span style="font-size:13pt" class="">Jim Wiegel</span></div><p style="margin-left:36pt" class="">“We are all time travelers journeying into the future. But let us make that future a place we want to visit. “
<span style="font-size:13pt" class="">Stephen Hawking</span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">
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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
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