December 2014 - OE - lists.wedgeblade.net

Re: [Oe List ...] Ed Shinn in his own words
by via OE 03 Dec '14

03 Dec '14

My profound thanks for this video, Michael, a last visit before Ed's release into freedom. When Ed and Mimi left Richgrove in the early 80's, they lived here in Lindsay for a few weeks until they got their bearings. It was such a privilege to be their neighbor as they struggled to plot their next steps. I've been full of wonder as I've heard from them and others from time to time of their work since then. Ed called to express his love and concern when my husband Fred was very ill - too ill and disoriented to talk, but his face lit up when he heard Ed's voice. It pleases me to imagine they're having a great conversation now, punctuated by good laughs. My love to Mimi, Mark, Rachel and Nate, and prayers for their consolation. Jann McGuire -----Original Message----- From: Michael May via OE <oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> To: OE Listserve <oe(a)wedgeblade.net> Sent: Tue, Dec 2, 2014 8:18 pm Subject: [Oe List ...] Ed Shinn in his own words Please invest 4 minutes to encounter Ed Shinn in his essence, depth, and enduring greatness: http://www.storywarrior.net/public/video/categorized.aspx… On the journey…... Michael Michael D. May Interior Mythos Journeys Nurturing the Infinite Entanglement www.storywarrior.net ; 210 East Gilbert Drive Bloomington, IN 47408 (812)606-7152 cell michael(a)storywarrior.net _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE(a)lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net

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Social process, hmmmm. Political and cultural
by James Wiegel via OE 02 Dec '14

02 Dec '14

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/30/dear-evangelicals-you-re-b… Also some hints on social change beyond protest and repetition of mid twentieth century tactics Jim Wiegel We have to fall in love if only to provide an alibi for the random despair we were going to feel anyway. Albert Camus 401 North Beverly Way, Tolleson, Arizona 85353 Tel. 011-623-936-8671 or 011-623-363-3277 jfwiegel(a)yahoo.com www.partnersinparticipation.com Upcoming public course opportunities click here http://partnersinparticipation.com/?page_id=10 For online registration go to http://www.top-training.net The AZ ToP® Community of Practice meets the 1st Friday, 1-4 pm, starting again on Sept 5th at ACYR, 648 N. 5th Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85003 AICP Planners: 14.5 CM for all ToP® courses

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Ed Shinn's completed life
by jlepps＠pc.jaring.my via OE 02 Dec '14

02 Dec '14

This message just came in from Vinod Parekh: Attachments Our revered friend Edwin Shinn was a towering figure in the world of Human Development. With his passing away an era of has gone. His passionate and firey intensity of purpose, dedication and compassion inspired every on around him. We met Ed and Mimi in Chicago at the Institute of Cultural affairs and later worked together in the village of Maliwada in India during the Human Development Project days and co- facilitated a number of training programmes in India and Ft Collins. Ed and Mimi came to the Human Development Training School in India where Ed inspired hundreds of youth with his unending vitality and zest for life. We are eternally grateful to Ed for introducing us to Village Earth. He has left indelible foot prints around the world. May his Creator rest his soul in peace and give Mimi and children to bear this huge loss. We echo the attached age old wisdom while saluting the great soul of Ed. Vinod and Kamala On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:28 AM, David Bartecchi <<mailto:david@villageearth.org>david(a)villageearth.org> wrote: Dear Friends of Ed Shinn, I write this with a heavy heart with news that Ed Shinn passed away this Friday. Mark Shinn, his son, contacted me today with this news and I have given him all your contact information so he might send you a notice about the funeral. As you might expect, he said Mimi is pretty shook'n up by this loss. It's a sad day for Village Earth as Ed was a huge influence on the organization and everyone who had the privilege of knowing him. Village Earth will be posting as a memorial our website as soon as we receive more information from his children. Dave

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On Being Mortal
by SteveHar via OE 02 Dec '14

02 Dec '14

Thanks Bill Salmon for your "being mortal" celebration vision for yourself. I'm just now working on a new draft of my "Five Wishes" document that sets out -the person I want to make care decisions for me when I can't -the kind of medical treatment I want/don't want -how comfortable I want to be -how I want people to treat me -what I want my loved ones to know I'm also updating my POLST document which is signed by my doc and specifies what the 1st responders are supposed to do when someone calls 911 emergency on my behalf. (No extraordinary life support mechanisms please, no high-speed chase, please, to the emergency room please) I've begun reading Atul Gawande author, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. Very interesting how he invites people at the end of life to act out their freedom and not be dominated by automatic emergency room procedures. You can get a taste here BBC4 Radio talk 42 minutes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04bsgvm Review of the book Being Mortal Boston Globe http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2014/10/11/book-review-being-mortal-m… Meeting this morning with a friend from my Mens Group on my documents. I hope to sponsor a session on the 5 wishes at a session soon. Your example of saying into existence how you want people to treat you and celebrate at the end of your life is brilliant. Message from: Steve Skype: consultharrington Social Media: LinkedIn, FaceBook, Google + Hangouts

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Salmon: Report on "My Memorial for Me"
by William Salmon via OE 02 Dec '14

02 Dec '14

Family and Colleagues-- This is long overdue, but an interesting lesson on the experience of living with death. Your review is encouraged. Inner Peace, Pastor Bill

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UMC, Bill Cosby, and Me
by via OE 02 Dec '14

02 Dec '14

UMC, Bill Cosby, andMe I shifted from civil to canon law in '65 after I bumped intoBultmann, Bonheoffer, Chardin, Tillich, Rahner, Kuhn, and the Niebuhrs. Though I grew up a pastor's kid, there was nopressure to follow father's footsteps. Customaryto Pilipinos, one is sacrificed at the altar of sanctified poverty throughChurch ordination and my youngest brother had the honor. He did not expect his elder brothers to segueinto pastoral theology, so by the time it was his turn, my mother said,"Enough." I became an earthrise glocalwarrior (global in perspective, local in responsibility), a creature at theedge of my social time. I hied back tothe Philippines to join the on-going UMC renewal so that we can reformulate theworld! The idealism of youth was short lived. Many in my denomination cared only to be a delegateto the US General Conference, or be an Episcopal Bishop. Daily pastoring to the realities of thisworld was peripheral. One-up-man-shipwas prevalent. Pea Eye hosted US Air and Naval Bases sending uniformed personnelto Korea and Vietnam. The UMCperfunctorily prayed for peace, but we were uppity American-led Protestants ina medieval Roman Catholic ocean, and as separated brethren in the faith, wetreated Catholics, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists as pests. Chiang's Chinese did not count. They were Mao's pagans and communists, belowthe human radar screen. Koreans andJapanese who converted were missionaries' minions. Colleagues polished and refurbished the image of Christ's universalreign, or oiled the promise of upward bliss in the by-and-by. Inversely, my feet were grounded in mud,hands dirtied in the complex stew of human affairs, my gaze horizontal ratherthan heavenward. Mission moved to theglobal network of structural revolution, a long concrete march in thehere-and-now attempted by of the Ecumenical Institute where I asked the UMC tohave me assigned. EI's engagement seareddeep; we took turns on sabbatical. I went back to UMC in Guam on my sabbatical where thecommunity diplomatically told me that teaching at Seminary was where I was bestsuited. That triggered my wandering intothe ecology rhetoric of PCV, aka US Peace Corps, USAID, World Bank and the ADBin Manila. It was 1984, title of George Orwell's dystopian novel, whenBill Cosby's Show upped NBC's ratings. Tounderstand how radical the show was, after two decades of the Civil Rights Act,Cliff and Claire Huxtable played by Bill Cosby and Philytia Rashad became athrowback to a wholesome family of well-off parents with relativelylevel-headed children, a Hollywood stereotype, save this was anAfrican-American family. The global mission of EI collapsed in 1986. The center would not hold for 2500-some"volunteers". The group held eachother accountable to their covenants, me on my marital fidelity. Arriving in San Francisco on the height ofthe Haight-Asbury love-in just after my teens, I took to habit Robert Heinlein'sgrokking in his Sci-Fi novel Stranger in a Strange Land. Not wildly but frequent enough to be aberrantto the norm of religious clerics; it proved costly. Covenants dissipated. At a PCV orientation for Muslim Mindanao in Zamboanga in the80s, I was taken by one trainee graduate of prestigious Quaker Elon College, a walkaway from where I was previously a shade-of-color as Associate in Muir'sChapel, an all-white UMC in North Carolina. I took the lady trainee out to lunch. I was not innocently flirtatious. But I was gallantly friendly to the oppositesex though I previously labored promoting horizontal social relations incommunity development; I did not pay close attention to trainer-traineerelations. Being the training Director, Reagan'sPCV Country Director's feedback adjudged my taking a trainee out to lunch to constitute"abuse of power"! Bill Cosby has contradictions. Attractive to ladies and admired by men, hewas said to be thoughtful to those who warmed his bed (says bag man FrankScotti); he also indulged into chemical stimulants, like the rest of theentertainment industry in his time. Ladiestoday, out of a more stringent standard of "abuse of power" a fewyears after the fact, accuse Cosby of having forcibly coerced them intosubmission to his will. The emotionallyladen term is "rape". The number of accusations and quality ofconfessions fall against Cosby's favor. The Temple U grad and poster boy just resigned his seat in the Board Room. Goodbye Immanuel UMC in Saipan came in 2003 after Iself-defrocked. Funny Cosby is no longerfunny, time for him to call it a night. (Joan Collins reveals that her first husband drugged and raped her whenshe was a 17-yr old virgin, married and divorced him 4 years later. Must be a post-WWII syndrome!) For those of us who still regard his fallenhumanity as par for the course, he might just let Roseanne Barr make him thebutt of her joke at her being bloodied after a tussle with Cosby. I write, inter alia, ofthe "sins of this father". j'aime la vie pinoypanda2031(a)aol.com yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today. participate. In all, celebrate!

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They Say It's Your Birthday
by Gordon Harper via OE 01 Dec '14

01 Dec '14

Whether that's true or not, it makes a good excuse for a greeting. In case it is, Happy Birthday, Joe! I still recall celebrating your 60th birthday in Maliwada. Recognizing the challenge that replication assignment was for all of us, I was impacted in that event that you were doing what you were in such a setting and at what seemed to me then to be a pretty advanced age. Our perceptions of what constitutes an advanced age do change as we pass our own milestones on the journey. Along with Molly Shaw, I just finished eight days of ICA ToP training here in Seattle for Boeing; at age 78, I find myself in some amazement at still loving (and being able to respond to) such opportunities. Given that I seem to recall your having about a sixteen year head start on me, the mind boggles trying to imagine what you may have been up to this past year that we join you in celebrating today. Knowing you, however, my suspicions are that whatever that was, it brought healing and delight to the lives you touched. So, we celebrate your being here, Joe, with Being itself in history--and for all of us having had the chance to mix our own wonder filled lives with yours -- Gordon

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A Happy Birthday
by George Holcombe via OE 01 Dec '14

01 Dec '14

Today is Joe Slicker’s birthday. George Holcombe 14900 Yellowleaf Tr. Austin, TX 78728 Mobile 512/252-2756 geowanda1(a)me.com "Whatever the problem, community is the answer. There is no power greater than a community discovering what it cares about." Margaret Wheatley

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