We attended a small intimate concert featuring Eliza Gilkyson in March. We have seen her some 8 or so times. She is a real artist and a treasure. Her latest recording is a secular take on spirit called Secular. https://www.allmusic.com/album/secularia-mw0003180864


Here's to Jean Long. When we entered the Order after Thanksgiving in 1973, she was in the Atlanta House (through 1974). She was among the strongest women I had encountered having moved a year earlier to Atlanta with Terry from San Marcos, Texas (where we now live). Jean taught school in a "rough" school--either junior high or high school. Near the end of her time in Atlanta, she cut her hair very short and that act was the "signal event" of her year. She kept it short thereafter, as I recall. 

She once gave a witness about a student who was picked on at her predominantly black school. Jean described the student as a chicken other chickens picked on. Yet, the student persisted in the midst of that harassment. 

I remember one RS-1 tombstone conversation where Jean's response was, "She's all used up." And so it is.

I saw her a bit at the archives gathering in the fall of 2017. We didn't get to talk much but she seemed to be in her element. 

Journey on, Jean, journey on. 

Diann McCabe
San Marcos, Texas
Diann McCabe

From: Dialogue <dialogue-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net> on behalf of Sunny Walker via Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net>
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Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Song video by Eliza Gilkyson: The Great Correction
 

Ellie,

I listened to the song – and while doing other things, her music kept playing through other songs on YouTube. I was both comforted and uplifted. THANK YOU!

 

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Subject: [Dialogue] Song video by Eliza Gilkyson: The Great Correction

 

Hi Folks,

 

Below is a link to the song video by Eliza Gilkyson "The Great Correction".  First sent it out in 2017.  Now resending in memory of Jean and those in the Spirit Movement who have given their lives, walking the crimson line and in honor of those who continue in their knowing, doing, being to love the Mystery and Build the Earth.

Ellie  :-)

 

down on the corner of ruin and grace
I'm growin weary of the human race
hold my lamp up in everyone's face
lookin for an honest man
everyone tied to the turnin wheel
everyone hidin from the things they feel
well the truth's so hard it just don't seem real
the shadow across this land
people round here don't know what it means
to suffer at the hands of our american dreams
they turn their backs on the grisly scenes
traced to the privileged sons
they got their god they got their guns
got their armies and the chosen ones
but we'll all be burnin in the same big sun
when the great correction comes
down through the ages lovers of the mystery
been sayin people let your love light shine
poets and sages all throughout history
say the light burns brightest in the darkest times
it's the bitter end we've come down to
the eye of the needle that we gotta get through
but the end could be the start of something new
when the great correction comes
down through the ages….
down to the wire runnin out of time
still got hope in this heart of mine
but the future waits on the horizon line
for our daughters and our sons
I don't know where this train's bound
whole lotta people tryin to turn it around
gonna shout til the walls come tumblin down
and the great correction comes
don't let me down
when the great correction comes