Thank you, Leslie and Jim! Lynda From: ICA Dialogue List <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net<mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net>> Reply-To: Jim and Judy Weigle <jfwiegel@yahoo.com<mailto:jfwiegel@yahoo.com>>, ICA Dialogue List <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net<mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net>> Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at 8:52 PM To: "OE@lists.wedgeblade.net<mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net>" <OE@lists.wedgeblade.net<mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net>>, ICA Dialogue List <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net<mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net>> Subject: [Dialogue] Election Day, November, 1884 This poem, thanks to Leslie Forbes -- Walt Whitman, 1819 - 1892 If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show, 'Twould not be you, Niagara-nor you, ye limitless prairies-nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado, Nor you, Yosemite-nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyser-loops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing, Nor Oregon's white cones-nor Huron's belt of mighty lakes-nor Mississippi's stream: -This seething hemisphere's humanity, as now, I'd name-the still small voice vibrating-America's choosing day, (The heart of it not in the chosen-the act itself the main, the quadriennial choosing,) The stretch of North and South arous'd-sea-board and inland-Texas to Maine-the Prairie States-Vermont, Virginia, California, The final ballot-shower from East to West-the paradox and conflict, The countless snow-flakes falling-(a swordless conflict, Yet more than all Rome's wars of old, or modern Napoleon's:) the peaceful choice of all, Or good or ill humanity-welcoming the darker odds, the dross: -Foams and ferments the wine? it serves to purify-while the heart pants, life glows: These stormy gusts and winds waft precious ships, Swell'd Washington's, Jefferson's, Lincoln's sails. Jim Wiegel<http://partnersinparticipation.com/?page_id=123> "If you want an adventure . . . what a time to be alive!". Joanna Macy 401 North Beverly Way,Tolleson, Arizona 85353 623-363-3277 jfwiegel@yahoo.com<mailto:marilyn.oyler@gmail.com> www.partnersinparticipation.com<http://www.partnersinparticipation.com/> Upcoming ToP training opportunities in Arizona<http://partnersinparticipation.com/?page_id=10> More info on: ToP® Facilitation Methods<http://partnersinparticipation.com/?page_id=48> ToP® Strategic Planning<http://partnersinparticipation.com/?page_id=50>: Mastering the Technology of Participation<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz3mniiYCdI> Register on line / see the ToP National Schedule<http://www.top-training.net/> AICP Planners: 14.5 CM for all ToP® courses The AZ ToP® Community of Practice<http://partnersinparticipation.com/?page_id=203> meets the 1st Friday, of every month, 1-4 pm, at ACYR, 648 N. 5th Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85003<https://www.google.com/maps/place/648+N+5th+Ave/@33.456329,-112.080545,16z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x872b123a5312512d:0x93c9f71171108956?hl=>