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8/11/16, Spong: The Unlikely Honored Guest at the Democratic National Convention
by Ellie Stock via OE 01 Aug '18

01 Aug '18

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He was surrounded in that reserved and exclusive seating area by the power-elite of the Democratic Party: A former President, the sitting Vice-President and the “second lady,” the spouses and children of the nominees, as well as those especially invited guests, who were uniquely and politically related to the convention’s eventual nominee. This unlikely guest was in his own way quite unique. He was a Republican, one who had been elected to a state-wide office as a candidate of the opposition party. He served as the governor of Virginia from 1970 – 1974 and was the first Republican governor of Virginia since 1869 in the last days of reconstruction. Later he sought his party’s nomination to the Senate of the United States, losing to another Republican, John Warner, who served with distinction from 1979 until he retired in 2008. The name of this mystery quest is Abner Linwood Holton. He is now, and has been since the day I first met him, an extraordinary man. People, unaware of the history of the Democratic Party in Virginia, find it strange that the man I regarded as the best governor of Virginia during the years I lived in that state would be a Republican. Let me tell you his story.</p> <p>Linwood Holton was born in 1923 in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, a town deep in the heart of Appalachia. He was a Republican from the moment of his birth. He was also bright and ambitious. Being a Republican in Virginia in those days was to be part of a distinct minority, perhaps even an endangered one! The Democrats of Virginia were the only cohesive political force in the state. This majority party was run by Virginia’s senior United States Senator, Harry Flood Byrd, who after serving a term as governor from 1926 to 1930, effectively ran the state until he died in 1966. It was said of Harry Byrd that he and a few of his closest political advisors would sit on the porch at his home in Berryville, Virginia, and pick the candidates for every political vacancy in Virginia from governor on down. The electorate was deliberately kept small by poll taxes, which effectively discouraged both blacks and poor whites from voting. A Byrd loyalist was in every county seat in Virginia to run the party. Racism was deep and “States Rights” was a holy slogan designed to make racism seem socially acceptable. Virginia was a one party state. Frequently the Republicans would not even nominate candidates and, even when they did, no one paid much attention to them because whoever won the Democratic primary seldom even campaigned in the general election, since Republicans simply did not win in this state! Linwood Holton made it his life’s ambition to establish two-party politics in Virginia.</p> <p>He graduated from Washington and Lee in Lexington, Virginia, and then entered the law school at Harvard University. Along the way he married a Roanoke girl, named Virginia Rogers, who went by the name of Jinks. She was the daughter of Frank Rogers, an upright, but ultra-conservative, successful and well-connected Roanoke citizen, who was the grandson of the first Episcopal Bishop in Southwestern Virginia. In his mind, the two greatest virtues were to be a conservative Episcopalian and a loyal Byrd Democrat. Jinks, the more rebellious of Rogers’ two daughters, chose to marry a Republican and a Presbyterian! Supported by this remarkable woman, Linwood began his life’s task of strengthening Virginia’s Republican Party. This party’s base, such as it was, had always been in the mountains of the western part of Virginia. As a force in opposition to Byrd Democrats, the Virginia Republican party tilted slightly leftward. There was no room to the right of the Byrd machine. The Virginia Republicans were known for their party’s efforts to improve education statewide and to develop better state mental health facilities. Linwood’s organizational efforts were so successful that in 1965 he was the Republican nominee for governor opposing the Southside, Virginia, Byrd Democrat, Mills Godwin, who had emerged as the new leader of the Democratic Party. The sickness, retirement and subsequently the death of Senator Byrd meant that the torch of party leadership had to be passed to the next generation. It is interesting that Harry Byrd, Jr., always known as “Little Harry,” who was appointed to succeed his father in the Senate, did not succeed him in the leadership of the statewide Democratic Party. Holton was defeated in that first run for the governor’s office, but he garnered a respectable total of votes and succeeded in introducing himself to the state. The day after the defeat, he began planning for his second run in 1969. The governorship in Virginia, we need to note, is limited by the Constitution to a single term.</p> <p>National issues soon began to erode the Byrd majorities. Poll taxes were declared unconstitutional in 1964. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 opened the ballot to people of color. The feminist movement began to galvanize women into an effective political force. A national- thinking Virginia Democrat, named Henry Howell, began to build a liberal political base made up of labor unions, blacks, women and young people. His challenge to the Byrd machine resulted ultimately in his election as Lt. Governor in 1971, but he could go no farther. He remained anathema to Byrd Democrats. In the Democratic Primary of 1969, the Byrd candidate, William Battle, the son of former Governor John Battle, defeated Henry Howell in a bitter contest. The party could not heal this division, so in the General Election, Linwood Holton, supported by many of Howell’s still angry voters, rode to victory with a 65,000 vote majority.</p> <p>In his inaugural address, Holton called for an end to Virginia’s pattern of racial discrimination and its racist politics. No Virginia Governor had ever uttered such words before. Words, however, were not enough. People looked for actions. They would follow soon.</p> <p>In the most dramatic step imaginable, the new governor and his wife made the decision not to put their children in the church-related or independent private schools of Richmond, where all governors’ children had previously attended, but to enroll them in Richmond’s public schools which were at that time about 80% black. It was such a startling action for a Virginia politician that the New York Times covered it with a front page story and a picture of Virginia’s Governor Holton escorting one of his daughters into a school surrounded by a host of black faces smiling broadly. In a state where the official response of the ruling Democratic machine to “Brown vs. the Board of Education,” had been to call for “massive resistance to the law of the land,” a state in which some counties chose to close their public schools rather than to integrate them, here was the highest elected official in the state escorting his children into the majority black public schools of Richmond, Virginia. No action could have announced better that a new day was dawning in what had once been the capital of the Confederacy. One of those Holton children entering those public schools on that day was their oldest daughter, Anne.</p> <p>The white population of Virginia was shocked. They believed and stated that their new governor was sacrificing his children on the “altar of integration.” Many suggested that the “inferior education” that his children would receive in those heavily black schools would cripple them for life. It was a strange argument that gave the lie to the previous white claim that all of its racially segregated schools were “separate, <em>but equal</em>.” Anne, in her early teens, would be an exemplary student. She received a fine education and upon graduation from high school would be admitted to Princeton University, from which she graduated <em>magna cum laude</em>. She seemed not to have been penalized at all in her educational achievements. After Princeton she was accepted into the class of 1983 at the Harvard Law School, from which she now holds a doctor of Jurisprudence degree. From there she went into a legal career that in time would include being a domestic relations judge and Virginia’s Education Secretary.</p> <p>While at Harvard she met, fell in love with and married a fellow law student, who was born in Minnesota and educated at the University of Missouri. His name was Tim Kaine. She lured him back to Richmond, where his earlier life experiences, including his Jesuit high school education, his year as a volunteer missionary to Honduras and his mastery of the Spanish language, prepared him to begin his Richmond law practice as a civil rights attorney. Then responding to an expressed community need, he entered politics at the most local of levels, running for a seat on Richmond’s nine-member City Council. In a majority black city, Tim not only won that seat, but was also later elected by that majority-black city council to be Richmond’s Mayor. Two years later, in 2001 he moved to the state level, being elected Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor. In 2005, he won the governor’s office. His wife, Anne Holton, became the first person to be at one time living in the governor’s mansion as the child of a Republican governor and then a second time as the state’s first lady and wife of a Democratic governor. In 2012, Tim Kaine won a seat in the United States Senate. In 2016, with two years remaining in his first term as senator, he was chosen by the presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, to be her vice-presidential running mate. Anne Holton was there with him, waving to the crowd on the final night. As Hillary Clinton raised Tim Kaine’s hand high, former president Bill Clinton was at her side and Anne Holton was at Tim Kaine’s side. The crowd roared with approval.</p> <p>In the VIP section of that vast Philadelphia arena sat the former Republican Governor Linwood Holton, now 92 years old, with his wife Jinks, both still vibrant and attractive, watching their daughter being introduced to the nation. There is sometimes a reward for integrity. Linwood and Jinks Holton, who would not allow their lives to be twisted by the prejudice of racism, challenged the distorting and debilitating social structures of his generation in Richmond, Virginia. Doing what is right sometimes carries with it intimations of transcendence and even immortality. To this day he remains one of my heroes.</p> <p>John Shelby Spong</p> <p>Read the essay online <a target="_blank" style="color: #4487cf;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;" href="http://johnshelbyspong.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b51b9cf441b059bb2…">here</a>.</p> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <table border="0" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="color: #000000;font-family: Georgia;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"><h2 style="color: #4487cf;display: block;font-family: Georgia;font-size: 30px;font-weight: normal;line-height: 100%;margin-top: 0;margin-right: 0;margin-bottom: 10px;margin-left: 0;text-align: left;">Question & Answer</h2> <p><span style="font-size:18px">Alberto Mejia Aguilera from Mexico writes via the internet:</span></p> <h4 style="color: #4487cf;display: block;font-family: Georgia;font-size: 22px;font-weight: normal;line-height: 100%;margin-top: 0;margin-right: 0;margin-bottom: 10px;margin-left: 0;text-align: left;"> Question:</h4> <p>I am from Mexico and I would like to know your opinion about Liberation Theology. Do you think that this theology is still an inspiration for the struggle against the social injustice?</p> <h4 style="color: #4487cf;display: block;font-family: Georgia;font-size: 22px;font-weight: normal;line-height: 100%;margin-top: 0;margin-right: 0;margin-bottom: 10px;margin-left: 0;text-align: left;">Answer:</h4> <p>Dear Alberto,</p> <p>Liberation theology was, I believe, was born in Latin America, so you should be especially proud of it. I associate the name of Leonardo Boff, primarily, with it, but there were others like the murdered Bishop Oscar Romero. It was born in an attempt to apply the principles of the gospel not just to individuals, but also to the structures of our society, which so often drive the masses into poverty. It identifies God with the poor. For those reasons it tended to be resisted in ecclesiastical circles, especially by the leaders of the Roman Catholic during the years of Popes John Paul II and Benedict, both of whom were so politically conservative that they saw it as another manifestation of Communism. I think they were both wrong in this judgment. Liberation theology, I believe, constituted a call to Christianity to see that its alliance with power, both in Europe and the new world, had corrupted the essential justice that Christianity requires.</p> <p>Christianity was born among the poor and the outcasts. It rose to dominate society and so became the religion of kings. Liberation Theology was a necessary correction.</p> <p>I wish you well.</p> <p>John Shelby Spong <a target="_blank" style="color: #4487cf;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;" href="http://johnshelbyspong.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b51b9cf441b059bb23…">Read and Share Online Here</a></p> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <table border="0" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="color: #000000;font-family: Georgia;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"><h2 style="color: #4487cf;display: block;font-family: Georgia;font-size: 30px;font-weight: normal;line-height: 100%;margin-top: 0;margin-right: 0;margin-bottom: 10px;margin-left: 0;text-align: left;">Announcements</h2> <div style="text-align: center;color: #000000;font-family: Georgia;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;"><a target="_blank" style="color: #4487cf;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;" href="http://johnshelbyspong.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b51b9cf441b059bb2…"><img align="none" height="262" style="width: 350px;height: 262px;margin: 0px;border: none;font-size: 14px;font-weight: bold;line-height: 100%;outline: none;text-decoration: none;text-transform: capitalize;display: inline;" width="350" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/b51b9cf441b059bb232418480/images/e67ac6a0-334…"></a></div> <h2 style="color: #4487cf;display: block;font-family: Georgia;font-size: 30px;font-weight: normal;line-height: 100%;margin-top: 0;margin-right: 0;margin-bottom: 10px;margin-left: 0;text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:26px"><span style="color:#000000">Bishop Spong at the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan September 10th & 11th</span></span></h2> <strong>Schedule:</strong> Saturday, September 10, 2016 1:00 pm at the Reynolds Recital Hall, Northern Michigan University 7:00 pm at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Marquette Sunday, September 11, 2016 2:00 pm at the Memorial Union Building , Michigan Technological University At each location, there will be an opportunity for Q&A and book signing.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top"> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></center><center><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" id="aolmail_canspamBarWrapper" style="background-color:#FFFFFF; border-top:1px solid #E5E5E5;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="padding-top:20px; padding-bottom:20px;"> </td></tr></tbody></table></center></div> </div> <style type="text/css">#AOLMsgPart_2_1c149769-41d3-4c3b-8300-eaccdde19ae7 td{color: black;} @media only screen and (max-width: 480px){ .aolReplacedBody table[id="canspamBar"] td{font-size:14px !important;} .aolReplacedBody table[id="canspamBar"] td a{display:block !important; margin-top:10px !important;} } </style>

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Update on Heidi Holmes
by Jeanette Stanfield 28 Feb '18

28 Feb '18

This update comes from Heidi and her family. They asked me to post it on this list serve. *Update on Heidi* Since we wrote many things have changed with Heidi - generally for the better. So we felt it would be helpful to update you on the current situation. Heidi has recovered much of her cognitive skills. She is quite alert and if it were warmer, I think she would be out walking and going to events. About a month ago she decided to stop taking the estrogen blocker as she felt there were too many side effects from it. Since that time she has been more engaged. She is staying up later in the evening and sleeping better at night. She has more energy and is more engaged in visiting with people. The art therapist has been working with her to develop a new painting style by he;ping her move with more of her body. She is responding well to the challenge. Her right ear is blocked and has less hearing. She is still being visited by her group of friends on a regular basis. These visits provide great stimulation that keep her engaged and thinking new thoughts. She has picked up some reading again. She is even reading and responding to emails. Heidi has a good palliative team around her and appreciates the doctor and nurse who visit regularly. She has cut back on the Support Worker visits as she is able to do more on her own. She has become more proactive in setting her own daily activities. Rachel has moved in with her. Given the expanded cognitive skills, she and Heidi have been having conversations on how they live together and how Rachel can best support Heidi in her ongoing journey. Rachel watches for changes be they positive or negative, short or long term. We are operating from the understanding that the prognosis has not changed and with great gratitude for these new developments. Thank you for the cards and notes you have sent. They have been much appreciated. Grace and Peace, Jeanette

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Global Buzz reminder for March issue
by ICA International 26 Feb '18

26 Feb '18

Reminder for entries This reminder is for the Global Buzz that will be published March 5th. 2018 (Please send your entries at least a day or more ahead) Please send all your entries by regular e-mail to: inform(a)ica-international.org with your entry as an attatchment. Send details of news items, training programmes, your peer to peer connections with other ICAs, any concerns you may have and of any events that are coming up at your location. Your report can be long or short, but remember that all other ICAs would really like to know about the things that matter where you are, and what you are doing as an ICA. Peter, for ICAI Communications Pour les entrées de rappel Ce rappel est à la Global Buzz qui sera publié le 5 Mars 2018 (Veuillez envoyer vos entrées au moins une journée à l'avance) Veuillez envoyer toutes vos entrées maintenant par courriel ordinaire à : inform(a)ica-international.org avec votre entrée comme un attatchment. Envoyer les détails des articles de nouvelles, des programmes de formation, vos connexions peer to peer avec d'autres CIAS, de toute préoccupation que vous pourriez avoir et de tous les événements qui sont à venir à votre emplacement. Votre rapport peut être longue ou courte, mais rappelez-vous que toutes les autres CIAS aimerait vraiment savoir à propos de choses qui importe où vous êtes et ce que vous faites comme une ICA. Recordatorio de las entradas Este aviso es para el Global Buzz que se publicarán 5 marzo 2018 (Favor de enviar sus entradas al menos con un día de antelación) Por favor envíe todos sus entradas ahora por correo electrónico a: inform(a)ica-international.org con su entrada como un archivo adjunto. Enviar detalles de noticias, programas de capacitación, el peer to peer las conexiones con otros convenios o acuerdos internacionales, las preocupaciones que usted pueda tener y de los eventos que se aproximan en su ubicación. El informe puede ser a corto o largo, pero hay que recordar que todos los demás convenios quisiera saber realmente sobre lo que realmente importa, y lo que están haciendo una ICA.

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Re: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] A confluence of Twins! Did I remember them all??
by Dawn Collins 22 Feb '18

22 Feb '18

On Tuesday, February 20, 2018, 7:07:54 PM MST, Dawn Collins <collinsdawn747(a)yahoo.com> wrote: Remembering winter of '70 'leaving West Side with Al Lingo and daughter Traci for India. Adam was born in late March at a very well appointed St. Elizabeth's Nursing Home staffed by Catholic nuns. Just a little while after his birth the Order Staff met frequently for planning and spiritual nourishment in the Holcombe's compartment on the train with high spirits on our way to Jabalpur in the South of the country. Got acquainted with the Crocker twins Benjamin and Jonathan, while Adam was yet an infant. Marilyn and Joe's boys were great crawlers--they had adapted a butterfly technique for literally swimming across the floor from one end of the room to the other when we had breaks in our faculty meeting and planning sessions. Seems all of these amazing kids no longer have all landed well for the most part as they continue to carve out their path and participation on the Way. Journey to the East is still a great corporate touchstone as we face the future sharing a common story that just might enable us to coalesce into a unified, inclusive body bound for the Promised Land. G&P,Dawn On Tuesday, February 20, 2018, 5:51:50 PM MST, Kathryn Zervigon via OE <oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:  Len & Elaine Hockley’s twins From: OE [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Isobel Bishop via OE Sent: Monday, February 19, 2018 3:55 PM To: Order Ecumenical Community Cc: Isobel Bishop; Kevin Balm; Dhondi Wiegel; Kevin Balm; Judith Wiegel; Elena Harper; Shanker and Lisa Wiegel; Marilyn Crocker; raymond(a)spencer.tc; Colleague Dialogue; lspencer1112(a)sbcglobal.net Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] A confluence of Twins! Did I remember them all?? Warmest congratulations to all the twins 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎆🔮🎇🎑 Sent from my iPhone On 19 Feb 2018, at 2:11 am, Holcombe Wanda via OE <oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: What a treat to be reminded of the “double treats” all the twins were to our community. I was always in deep admiration to the moms who birthed their twins (or any child) while on assignments in developing nations and to all the couples who birthed twins and managed parenthood as part of the Order Comminity🌍🌎🌏 ......And to follow some of them as they grew and were loved by a larger community beyond their parents💗🦋 Wanda Sent from my iPhone On Feb 18, 2018, at 8:53 AM, James Wiegel via Dialogue <dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: This subject line from a recent email . . . Stu & Elena's 50th Birthday Weekend! It was 1976. Maliwada village. The Castle at the end of the road. The Harper twins, now turning 50 The Balm twins The Crocker twins And subsequently . . . The Spencer twins The Wiegel twins (just turned 40) Jim Wiegel 401 North Beverly Way, Tolleson, Arizona 85353 Tel. 011-623-936-8671 or 011-623-363-3277 jfwiegel(a)yahoo.com www.partnersinparticipation.com Loneliness does not come from having no people around you. But from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you. Carl Jung _______________________________________________ Dialogue mailing list Dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net Sent from my iPhone On Feb 18, 2018, at 8:53 AM, James Wiegel via Dialogue <dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: This subject line from a recent email . . . Stu & Elena's 50th Birthday Weekend! It was 1976. Maliwada village. The Castle at the end of the road. The Harper twins, now turning 50 The Balm twins The Crocker twins And subsequently . . . The Spencer twins The Wiegel twins (just turned 40) Jim Wiegel 401 North Beverly Way, Tolleson, Arizona 85353 Tel. 011-623-936-8671 or 011-623-363-3277 jfwiegel(a)yahoo.com www.partnersinparticipation.com Loneliness does not come from having no people around you. But from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you. Carl Jung _______________________________________________ Dialogue mailing list Dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE(a)lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE(a)lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net

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Re: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] A confluence of Twins! Did I remember them all??
by Kathryn Zervigon 21 Feb '18

21 Feb '18

Len & Elaine Hockley’s twins From: OE [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Isobel Bishop via OE Sent: Monday, February 19, 2018 3:55 PM To: Order Ecumenical Community Cc: Isobel Bishop; Kevin Balm; Dhondi Wiegel; Kevin Balm; Judith Wiegel; Elena Harper; Shanker and Lisa Wiegel; Marilyn Crocker; raymond(a)spencer.tc; Colleague Dialogue; lspencer1112(a)sbcglobal.net Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] A confluence of Twins! Did I remember them all?? Warmest congratulations to all the twins 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎆🔮🎇🎑 Sent from my iPhone On 19 Feb 2018, at 2:11 am, Holcombe Wanda via OE <oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: What a treat to be reminded of the “double treats” all the twins were to our community. I was always in deep admiration to the moms who birthed their twins (or any child) while on assignments in developing nations and to all the couples who birthed twins and managed parenthood as part of the Order Comminity🌍🌎🌏 ......And to follow some of them as they grew and were loved by a larger community beyond their parents💗🦋 Wanda Sent from my iPhone On Feb 18, 2018, at 8:53 AM, James Wiegel via Dialogue <dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: This subject line from a recent email . . . Stu & Elena's 50th Birthday Weekend! It was 1976. Maliwada village. The Castle at the end of the road. The Harper twins, now turning 50 The Balm twins The Crocker twins And subsequently . . . The Spencer twins The Wiegel twins (just turned 40) Jim Wiegel <x-apple-data-detectors://0> 401 North Beverly Way, Tolleson, Arizona 85353 Tel. 011-623-936-8671 or 011-623-363-3277 <mailto:marilyn.oyler@gmail.com> jfwiegel(a)yahoo.com <http://www.partnersinparticipation.com/> www.partnersinparticipation.com Loneliness does not come from having no people around you. But from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you. Carl Jung _______________________________________________ Dialogue mailing list Dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net Sent from my iPhone On Feb 18, 2018, at 8:53 AM, James Wiegel via Dialogue <dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: This subject line from a recent email . . . Stu & Elena's 50th Birthday Weekend! It was 1976. Maliwada village. The Castle at the end of the road. The Harper twins, now turning 50 The Balm twins The Crocker twins And subsequently . . . The Spencer twins The Wiegel twins (just turned 40) Jim Wiegel <x-apple-data-detectors://0> 401 North Beverly Way, Tolleson, Arizona 85353 Tel. <tel:011-623-936-8671> 011-623-936-8671 or <tel:011-623-363-3277> 011-623-363-3277 <mailto:marilyn.oyler@gmail.com> jfwiegel(a)yahoo.com <http://www.partnersinparticipation.com/> www.partnersinparticipation.com Loneliness does not come from having no people around you. But from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you. Carl Jung _______________________________________________ Dialogue mailing list Dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE(a)lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net

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please use just list addresses when posting
by Timothy Wegner 20 Feb '18

20 Feb '18

Quick heads up. It sometimes happens that folks send out an email to their whole address list including the list address(es). This makes the mailing list software paranoid (to anthropomorphize unapologetically, because software programs are clearly sentient beings) because the software is not sure what you, the poster, intends. What happens is that I, the hard-working list moderator, get to decide whether to let the message go to the lists or not. I tend to make random decisions about this. The best practice is to send list messages only to one or both list addresses. If you don't do this, you will have to answer "no and yes" at house church. :-) Tim.

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Re: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] A confluence of Twins! Did I remember them all??
by Thomas Morrison 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

Hi everyone, In regards to Jim W's question about where are we and the methods we share in common, here are some that rise up quickly in my mind. 1) time spent w/ community organizers: comprehensive, gridding, power analysis, self support models, workshops, H Richard Niebuhr (Responsibility). 2) pastor in congregations: cadre/congregation/guild come to mind easily in applications. Be careful what we sing. See below too. 3) in work as a psychotherapist: other world in midst of this world (this can get spooky), squeeze play, ah-ha moments, freedom and duty held in tension through responsibility, suspension of the rational in structured conversation (art-form, spirit are biggies), visual imaginal education especially when it is much too easy to pile words on words, "You are accepted", Piaget. Goodness, I've used EI-ICA methods in teaching statistics to would-be pharmacists too. The list goes on and on. Tom Morrison On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 2:54 PM, Isobel Bishop via Dialogue < dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: > Warmest congratulations to all the twins 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎆🔮🎇🎑 > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 19 Feb 2018, at 2:11 am, Holcombe Wanda via OE <oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> > wrote: > > What a treat to be reminded of the “double treats” all the twins were to > our community. I was always in deep admiration to the moms who birthed > their twins (or any child) while on assignments in developing nations and > to all the couples who birthed twins and managed parenthood as part of the > Order Comminity🌍🌎🌏 > > ......And to follow some of them as they grew and were loved by a larger > community beyond their parents💗🦋 > Wanda > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Feb 18, 2018, at 8:53 AM, James Wiegel via Dialogue < > dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: > > This subject line from a recent email . . . Stu & Elena's 50th Birthday > Weekend! > > It was 1976. Maliwada village. The Castle at the end of the road. > The Harper twins, now turning 50 > The Balm twins > The Crocker twins > > And subsequently . . . > The Spencer twins > The Wiegel twins (just turned 40) > > > Jim Wiegel > 401 North Beverly Way, Tolleson, Arizona 85353 > Tel. 011-623-936-8671 or 011-623-363-3277 > jfwiegel(a)yahoo.com <marilyn.oyler(a)gmail.com> > www.partnersinparticipation.com > > Loneliness does not come from having no people around you. But from being > unable to communicate the things that seem important to you. Carl Jung > > _______________________________________________ > Dialogue mailing list > Dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net > http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Feb 18, 2018, at 8:53 AM, James Wiegel via Dialogue < > dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: > > This subject line from a recent email . . . Stu & Elena's 50th Birthday > Weekend! > > It was 1976. Maliwada village. The Castle at the end of the road. > The Harper twins, now turning 50 > The Balm twins > The Crocker twins > > And subsequently . . . > The Spencer twins > The Wiegel twins (just turned 40) > > > Jim Wiegel > 401 North Beverly Way, Tolleson, Arizona 85353 > Tel. 011-623-936-8671 or 011-623-363-3277 > jfwiegel(a)yahoo.com <marilyn.oyler(a)gmail.com> > www.partnersinparticipation.com > > Loneliness does not come from having no people around you. But from being > unable to communicate the things that seem important to you. Carl Jung > > _______________________________________________ > Dialogue mailing list > Dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net > http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net > > _______________________________________________ > OE mailing list > OE(a)lists.wedgeblade.net > http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net > > > _______________________________________________ > Dialogue mailing list > Dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net > http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net > >

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