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Fwd: GMCA Sept. 17
by David Zahrt via OE 24 Sep '14

24 Sep '14

*WED SEP 17* * Shipshewana to West Park Auto in Lagrange, IN* Once again the route directions were complex countryside directions. I got to Hwy 20 as quickly as possible. The shoulders were 8 foot wide. With all the semi- trucks going by I appreciated that shoulder. I think its because it’s Amish countryside. And I did have to regularly dodge piles of horse manure. Since the temperature is getting cooler I'm putting on long sleeves. When riding for a substantial distance it's possible to have clothes that retain heat and sweat, and cause you to be uncomfortably cool. I put on the long sleeved sweater that Heidi gave me for the March. It kept me warm, and it ventilated so when I sweated it let the sweat evaporate. It’s the best shirt I have for this kind of weather/task. West Park Auto gave me permission to come into their office and eat my lunch. When Izzy arrived we set up the Taj Mahal. The previous night there were 3 more people sleeping in the tent. We had a camp meeting at 4:30. The major topic, again, was the NYC trip. There are many details and it becomes complex. We’re to have a ‘buddy’ so we can keep in touch with someone else on the March. John Abbe printed out a 5-page document with the events schedule and location. That helps, but making our way from one place to another, in NYC, I suspect will be a challenge. The meeting concluded before dinner. Dinner was leftovers we've had from the last 2 or 3 potlucks. It’s been carefully kept in the refrigerator so it was nourishing and healthy. Ed, Izzy and JJ were playing their guitars. The sun is going down much earlier these days. Izzy led us in the sundown song. When I get back to Carson City, I’ll introduce it to Song Circle. Ed asked me what I wanted to sing. I told him The Iowa Waltz. When he finished I remarked that I didn’t want to sing *Yesterday* without an audience. He agreed and we went to bed. The next morning I discovered that 5 more people had slept in the tent. -- Peace, David -- Peace, David

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GMCA Sept. 18
by Lin Zahrt via OE 24 Sep '14

24 Sep '14

*THU SEP 18* *West Park Auto, *LaGrange to Angola, *IN* The route directions were simple. After Circle-up I got on Hwy 20 and rode to Angola. Once again the shoulders were 8 foot wide. Its because its Amish countryside. There wasn’t much horse manure. I went to the Angola Library. I had the impression that the niece of my friends, the Imlers, worked there. I found out I was wrong and phoned the Imlers. Bill answered and told me they had just returned from Indonesia on a 30-hour trip, so he was trying to get his body-clock back on the Eastern time zone. He volunteered that I could have a Home-stay with them and told me he would get back in touch with me when they had worked out the details. While I was talking with Bill about the March one of the receptionists overheard me. She told me she was phoning the local paper and have a reporter come to the library and interview me. So I waited for the reporter. She interviewed me and made an appointment to visit the campsite later on in the afternoon. I found the campsite and waited for the Imlers to contact me. When they phoned they indicated Marilyn VanValkenburg, Dona Lou’s sister and the wife of Van, who was the campus minister at the Iowa U. Wesley Foundation the summer of 1960, shuttled them to the Park. We went to visit Van, now in a nursing home. I don't think he remembers Lin and me. Then we went out to dinner. Marilyn asked about our history since I graduated from Drew Theological Seminary. I gave the history--local parish and EI/ICA, family farm. Everyone else finished their dinner while I was talking! Once I finished dinner they took me on a tour that gave me a chance to see their family farm and farmhouse. It was amazing to see how much heritage they’ve retained. Marilyn drove us back to the Imler’s residence and dropped us off. I think she lives in the house next to the Imlers. I spent some time getting my NYC baggage together and then went to bed. We got up at 5:45am, had breakfast at 6:15, and drove back to camp at 6:40am. When we got to camp a little before 7am, the Imlers had a chance to see what the Climate March is like operationally. They stayed for the Circle-up and then said “Goodbye”. I thanked them and got on my bicycle to travel into Ohio. It was delightful to re-establish contact, be hosted by them, and have a chance to view and appreciate Dona Lou’s family heritage.

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Re: [Oe List ...] OE Digest, Vol 30, Issue 20
by via OE 23 Sep '14

23 Sep '14

Jaime was not prodigious, just the end of the month that saw me with more time than usual. Anyway, the usual caveat: if curious, welcome; not, see you at the bend." -----Original Message----- From: via OE <oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> To: oe <oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Tue, Sep 23, 2014 4:51 pm Subject: OE Digest, Vol 30, Issue 20 Send OE mailing list submissions to oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to oe-request(a)lists.wedgeblade.net You can reach the person managing the list at oe-owner(a)lists.wedgeblade.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of OE digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Jaime for Friday in ST, September 26 (via OE) 2. Jaime for the 29th in ST (via OE) 3. Gandhi anecdote (via OE) 4. Jaime for ST September 24 (via OE) 5. Fwd: GMCA 9/14 (David Zahrt via OE) 6. Re: [Dialogue] Historical Records Team Collegium-Global Archives Research Assembly (Lynda Cock via OE) 7. Anyone remember any of these Education Structure Events - or know some new ones? (steve har via OE) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 08:51:08 -0400 From: via OE <oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> To: oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net Subject: [Oe List ...] Jaime for Friday in ST, September 26 Message-ID: <8D1A47B03939129-E1C-733(a)webmail-va191.sysops.aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" China's comeback kids China faces a spirit issue. It's goals since 1978 when Deng Xiaoping left ideology for a guided freemarket economy, clearly accepting that some folks will get rich before others, hasbeen attained. In just over 30 years, advancesin science and technology fueled industrialization, along with a judicious nursingof its military might, leaving China on top of the development heap while gropingfor its soul. Development in the global race is on to increase GDP percapita at a pace to fuel a consumption-production system at the expense of natureand people. This purely economicdefinition is doing much harm to the world's natural systems and the ever-continuingcreation of a democratic rather than a consumer culture. China's soul hit a vacuum groping for rolemodels. Today, the comeback candidates are Christ, Mao, and theBuddha. The Chinese who sees comfort in the Christ has the undergroundhouse churches that attract devotion because they defy authority, anunderstandable reaction. Pastor poundedpulpits trained to wear evangelical enthusiasm up their sleeves are zealously tiedto the emotional allure of a cultic "savior" that takes away the "sinsof the world" through communal fellowship that gathers adherents warmheartedly. The communal comfort in Christianity fits into the Confucianethos of family and the ethics that comes along. Its metaphors and belief-nets remain in the regallanguage of a redeemer under a defunct three-story universe, a "belief"in a heaven in the sky, and a penal colony under; it appeals to the elderly'ssuperstition but the secular and scientific young, at best, say,"huh?" Mao is a tolerated Uncle whose centralized dictates belongto, by his own measure, the 30 percent of his mistakes, but his dialectics alignswith the 70 percent that was right. It definedthe conflict then prevailing between elite and worker, urban and rural, learnedand the hoi polloi, though hardlyfits in the current harmonizing and collaborative thrust of the "reformand opening up" era. The contradiction metaphor got the Chinese mind around thereality of differing perspectives, and Mao would have been regarded an undisputedstatesman had he allowed his "a thousand flowers bloom" evolve into vive le difference rather than thedivisive and humiliating confrontational deterioration of the CulturalRevolution. Ironically, Mao represents recognition of the virtue ofindividual genius before it is straight jacketed into the commune. The assertive selfhood he exhibited is dubbedas a personality cult by the west, gobbled up by prejudiced contra Sino, butrevered from a distance as his name is invoked, though without bothering withthe details. The halls of academia quicklydiscard the mention of his name. Which brings us to the Buddha. If Jesus belongs to the Ptolemaic cosmologyof pre-Nikolaj Kopernik, and Mao brought down the elitist pretensions of the illuminati of academy into realisticlevels, ushered into Sino-consciousness Marx's dialectic and socialism withChinese characteristics, its contradiction understood from a deeply communalview and cooperative perspective before it is the social conflict to resolvelayered social stratification, the saffron Buddha saunters with a Mona Lisaenigmatic smile. Buddhists skew Christiantheistic escapism and Mao's dichotomy between decadent and progressive forces,favors a psychology of a mind-full self. Buddhists meditate not to escape from any situation, or thechallenges of any given location, but to engage in the depths of the bottomlessabyss of understanding one's consciousness. This lends itself to the Sino orientationof rootedness in space rather than the Euro-journey in time. The Buddhists, however, tend to be abstract intheir mindfulness against the practical activism that is a demand of cognition. Pope Francis willingness to dialogue with China's officiallysanctioned Christian Church might be at the root of the recent pronouncementthat Beijing will not shy away from creating its own Christianity with its own "Chinesecharacteristics", similar to its socialist economics and communal politicsof reform and opening up. Kung Fu Tzu (Confucius) is not being dismissed. His ethos will be around awhile but making a comebackkid out of Jesus, Mao Zedong, or the Buddha is a backward step as eachtradition inadequately encompasses China's broiling spiritual hunger. Since 1968, we minded exploited and battered mother earth, cognizantof her gracious support of the human specie. We segued into a secular spirituality without the hocus-pocus of theismthough not a surrendered devotion to "all there is". It was rather a decision to be free, to makechoices, and own up to one's decisions. Wetook to the ancient art of mindfulness and plumbed the depths of engagement inhuman affairs, like the recent Peoples Climate Change March, allowing motherearth's wellbeing a fighting chance. In the care of Mother Earth will China finds its soul. j'aime la vie pinoypanda2031(a)aol.com yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today. participate. In all, celebrate!

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Fwd: GMCA Sept. 16
by David Zahrt via OE 23 Sep '14

23 Sep '14

*TUE SEP 16* *Elkhart Mennonite College, Goshen, to Shipshewana, IN* The route today was along Pumpkinvine Trail. There were places where the trail was interrupted by public roads. But it was easy to bridge from one trail interruption to another. There were many trees providing much shade. And fog covered the sky, which made the ride a little chilly. When I arrived at Shipshewana, Faith informed me that I was the first Marcher to be ‘Adopted’. Adoption is another one of our fundraising activities. And Joan Wallace was the one who adopted me. She was in the Rochester House with us in 1970. She was also the one who made my Omaha visit so memorable. Adoption means that I get some massages from my travel companions! In Shipshewana I scouted out the campsite and then went to the Flea Market. When I packed for the March I used 2 large bags: one for clothes, and one for camping equipment. In anticipation of our trip to NYC I needed a travel bag that I could put on the bus and/or the subway. I found one and purchased it. Then I came back to the campsite and journaled. When Izzy arrived we set up the Taj Mahal. It had been a long time since we put it up. There was a camp meeting at 4:30pm. It went until dinner was ready. We interrupted the meeting, served ourselves, and then continued the meeting. A good deal of the meeting had to do with the NYC trip. It seems there are still many details to ‘iron-out’. The meeting lasted until 8pm. It was dark and chilly when we went to bed. -- Peace, David

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Fwd: Watch Seva Gandhi and Jim Addington on a video clip
by steve har via OE 23 Sep '14

23 Sep '14

Watch! James Addington and Seva Gandhi describe an ICA-USA Project http://wp.me/s3rKUb-413 [image: Inline image 1] -- Steve Harrington -- Steve Harrington

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Fwd: GMCA Sept.15
by David Zahrt via OE 23 Sep '14

23 Sep '14

*MON SEP 15* *Good Shepherd U. U. Church, Elkhart to Mennonite College, Goshen, IN* I had a good night’s sleep and the weather forecast said Mon. would be sunny. Before we finished breakfast it clouded over and began to sprinkle. I asked Doug if he had any passengers in the Gear truck and he said “No”. I told him that I would help him pack up and put my bike in the truck. He said “OK”. So I made the trip without getting a shower! The Mennonite College has many facilities. I went to the giant auditorium that joins the kitchen. The guest WiFi hooked up to my laptop automatically. I saw a CVS store as we were approaching the college. So later I bicycled to CVS and got my flu shot. The nurse asked if I wanted my pneumonia shot too. I said “Yes”. Maybe I should have said “No”. The only affect I’ve had is 2 sore arms. The college allowed us to camp out in the basement after preschool finished. The Mennonites provided the potluck dinner. They sang the mealtime blessing—they’re like a chorus! It was the biggest gathering we’ve had (at least 200 people). And it was clear that they welcomed us. After the meal we adjourned to another part of the auditorium and there were a series of presentations, including some from the Marchers. The chair invited those who wanted to March to meet in one corner, and those who wanted to go to NYC for the Peoples Climate March to meet in another corner, and those who wanted to provide ongoing support of the March to meet in another corner. I am going to NYC so joined that group. We got details on upcoming events. To end the meeting our hosts sang their version of the Doxology; yet another chorus. -- Peace, David

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1st Imaginal Education Video Conversation begins in Sydney!
by steve har via OE 23 Sep '14

23 Sep '14

Hello Imaginal Education GARA Working Group and others Robyn Hutchinson just began showing the video and having a Skype conference There are people on the call from Japan, Nepal, Singapore and India. People have access to the video of James Addington and Seva Gandhi interview talking about the the educational components of the Chicago oriented action based learning in neighborhood communities You will be able to see a similar program in North Central and South America beginning 1pm CDT Chicago (1300 hours) You will be able to see the program live and recorded on YouTube on your web browser at this location: https://plus.google.com/u/0/101302036486582034870/posts Please join us! -- Steve Harrington

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Re: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] Historical Records Team Collegium-Global Archives Research Assembly
by Lynda Cock via OE 23 Sep '14

23 Sep '14

Yeah for the Historical Records Team! Delightful basement video starring Beret and Paul in the depths of the Green Rise Building at 4750 N. Sheridan where the great storehouse of files of our work with ICA reside, and Part II, Beret¹s intro to the work of Historical Records Team this week. If you haven¹t seen these, go to https://www.youtube.com/user/icaresearchaccess. Blessings on the memory of those who gave so much of their time in beginning this work. I think of Betty Pesek, Audrey Ayres, Lyn Mathews Edwards, David McClesky, who spent much time as the Archive Angels and the Golden Pathways project a number of years ago. I¹m sure there were lots of others. Who were other names that need to be celebrated as this work continues? Thank you to all gathered in Chicago for pioneering and sharing in this virtual research assembly. Lynda Cock, Greensboro, NC From: Beret Griffith via Dialogue <dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> Reply-To: Beret Griffith <beretgriffith(a)gmail.com> Date: Sunday, September 21, 2014 at 10:02 PM To: "O:E List" <OE(a)wedgeblade.net>, Dialogue List <dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> Cc: Gordon Harper <gharper(a)gmail.com>, Frank Knutson <frankknutson2(a)gmail.com>, Sally Fenton <fentonaj40(a)gmail.com>, Steve Harrington <stevehar11201(a)gmail.com>, Beret Griffith <beretgriffith(a)gmail.com>, Christina Wolf <christinawolf68(a)gmail.com>, Rosemary Albright <ralbright.6400(a)gmail.com>, Wendell Refior <wendellrefior(a)gmail.com>, Marge Philbrook <margephilbrook(a)gmail.com>, James Wiegel <jfwiegel(a)gmail.com>, Fara Taylor <wb2m2t(a)gmail.com> Subject: [Dialogue] Historical Records Team Collegium The Historical Records Team has two exciting announcements to make tomorrow morning at the Historical Records Team Collegium, Monday, September 22, 2014. Tune in for a peek into life at the ICA Global Archives, ICA GreenRise, Chicago, Illinois, USA.. Find out how you can access the ICA Global Archives holdings and documents currently on-line. We will be providing links that were only dreamed possible when work in the archives began many years ago. You will be among the first people to experience this transparency, which we hope will give you the confidence and courage to dive into your personal documents, artifacts, slides, photographs, old audio tapes, films, decor, graphics to decide what is worth preserving for the Future of the Archives. We are prepared to provide support to individuals and ICA offices around the world needing assistance. Beret Griffith for the current Historical Records Team Marge Philbrook, Jean Long, Frank Knutson, Christina Wolf and Wendell Refior of the Tech Team for providing technical support Please contact me at beretgriffith(a)gmail.com to let us know if you are interested in working with the Global Archives Team _______________________________________________ Dialogue mailing list Dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net

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Fwd: GMCA 9/14
by David Zahrt via OE 23 Sep '14

23 Sep '14

*SUN SEP 14* *Good Shepherd Montessori School, South Bend to Unitarian Universalist Church, Elkhart, IN* I went to breakfast and had my yogurt and granola—I miss my own home-made, sun-dried granola. One of the things the March has added to my diet is almonds. There is almond milk at breakfast, and almond butter for lunch sandwiches. Somewhere I remember hearing/reading that almonds are good for you HDLs. I don’t know what my HDL is now but I remember the last test I had showed it as 35: that’s marginal. I usually have 2 checkups a year. I had one in February. I’ll have one when I get back to Carson. Circle-up was scheduled for 7:15am. It still hadn’t happened by 7:45am so I left on my bike. I found the March route more complicated then necessary and took Jefferson Blvd east until I reached Elkhart. Then I stopped and inquired at a MacDonald's about the best route to the church. The church was graciously hospitable. I arrived just after the morning service had been completed. They offered me coffee or tea. A small group gathered to go out for lunch. They invited me to go with them. I thanked them and declined indicating I'd packed my lunch. In the afternoon the pastor let us use her office and her computer. There were two places inside where we were allowed to stay: the auditorium and the Kids House. I chose the latter. A greet and welcome get-together was scheduled at 4pm. Kat conducted the conversation. There were probably as many local residents as there were Marchers. She had a series of questions and circled around the group encouraging everyone to answer the questions. The closing question was “What can you do to help turn the Climate Crisis around?”. There were a lot of interesting answers. At 6pm a potluck dinner was served in the kitchen. Most of the dishes were brought in by the local residents. At 8pm we called it an evening. -- Peace, David

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Anyone remember any of these Education Structure Events - or know some new ones?
by steve har via OE 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

Several people in the Imaginal Education Working Group are asking about Educational Structures ICA has had contact with in the past We did a "Find" in the GAP online database and found this data Did you work with any of these educational institutions? Are there any you've worked with that are not on the list? Here is the list displayed in a google spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MIDSOx8sSM53G8zoQr90UP-DZdCwN7icnOy… Can you help us "crowd source" the list and create more complete information? Thanks! -- Steve, a communicator for the Imaginal Education Research Working Group

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