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5/24/22 ADD ON
by Frank Knutson 25 May '22

25 May '22

This is from Beret Griffith . . . ICA Area New York - Pennsylvania Retreat 1980’s Row 6: John Rader or Basil Sharp, (man gray hair), Bob Griffin, Vaughn O’Halloran, Carl Stock, (man mustache),( tall man), Rob Jennings-Teats, Daudi Barnes, George Walters Row 5: Cliff Stocking, Nancy Trask,(woman dark curly hair), (man bald), Ron Griffith, David Greenwald, , Doris Morris or Carol Griffin, Len Hockley, Ken Rose, Rick McKay Row 4: Abe Ulangca, Jack Ballard, Louise Ballard, Forest Craver, Carol Walters, Judy White, Dorcas Rose Row 3: Judy Harvey, Beret Griffith, Muriel Griffin, Nancy Eggert, Sheila Maguire, Sherry Greenwald (or Charlene Powell??), Dixie Jennings-Teats, Leonard Sizer, Jim Armor, Janice Ulangca, Row 2: Susan Craver, Hilde Betonte , Phyllis Hockley, Doris Price, Carol Stocking , Helen Haug, (woman in yellow shirt) Row 1: Marie Sharp, Luci Mali (standing), Aaron Ensinger, Ruth Morris (w/ baby), Virginia Mali (seated) ( with blurry child white teddy bear), Kids Seated: _________,__________, Chris Ballard, Andrew Craver, Josh Craver Row 1 Marie etc. Peter Ballard, (child in pink shirt) Jono Barnes, Jordan Ensinger

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Responding to Ellie Stock and Frank Knutsen's call for songs
by Karen Snyder 25 May '22

25 May '22

Singing The links below can be found in the Inner Life Collection: Rituals of the Global Archives website: https://icaglobalarchives.org/collections/ Contextual talks have been given and papers written reflecting on the purpose of songs and singing. In January 1967 The Image periodical published Volume I <https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/4638.pdf> and Volume II <https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/4906.pdf> Songs of the Spirit Movement with a context in Volume I. Joseph Mathews gave two talks in June 1973 on the purpose of songs: June 10th <https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/4905.pdf> and June 19th <https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/5431.pdf>. For many years each Summer Research Assembly compiled a songbook; and various other songbooks were created over the years. Here is a sampling: Archives Sojourn Songbook 2017 <https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/20824.pdf>, compiled by Jean Long for the Human Development Celebration ICA Related Songs <https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/21538.pdf> Local Church Experiment Songs <https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/21537.pdf> Spirit Journey Retreat 2007 <https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/20601.pdf>, songs and rituals compiled by John and Lynda Cock The Global Songbook 1983-1984 <https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/21981.pdf> Two major collections of songs compiled from various sources are now available: 485 <https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/20118.pdf> songs and 788 <https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/20119.pdf> songs. Karen Living on the land of the Council of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi with representatives from 100 nations living in what is now called Chicago.

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Re: [Oe List ...] 5/22/22 PHOTOS
by Isobel and Jim 24 May '22

24 May '22

Hello everyone, Lovely photos Frank, once again and thank you😊👏🏻 The first pic is of Jo with Charles Perkins, a First Nations pioneer who led the Freedom March to a western country town- Moree in NSW. Bus loads of University students who went to the ‘ all white ‘swimming pool to desegregate it. In other photos, I see Joyce and Mary Ann and Priscilla and other women I don’t recognise. What treasures 🙏 With greetings and love and yes, we have at last changed our Prime Minister and Government from very conservative to consultative and justice oriented. A third and also fourth groupings have emerged to hold the balance and make a difference ( my view). 9 years of unkindness and greed gone ! In hope With greetings and love, Isobel Bishop Isobel Bishop Mob. 0412 129 425 > On 23 May 2022, at 12:59 am, Frank Knutson via OE <oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OE mailing list > OE(a)lists.wedgeblade.net > http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net

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4/11/22 PHOTOS
by Frank Knutson 24 May '22

24 May '22

I want to keep it simple and just post photos on this site rather than use Google. I really don’t know of way to tag photos but believe that as people ID names with faces they should continue to share the information. OK? ❤

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5/24/22 PHOTOS
by Frank Knutson 24 May '22

24 May '22

You are the result of the Love of thousands. ~Linda Hogan

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Songs for Collapsing Times
by Milan Hamilton 24 May '22

24 May '22

I've been pondering for some time how those who care in these times of failing systems and "great unraveling" sustain themselves. We always had the singing whenever we gathered. I've wondered if singing can still be a sustaining dynamic in these diasporate times. I've turned to writing poetry after running out of prose, finding it a bit too prosaic. And recently, after listening to Ellie Stock's "Let the Earth Breathe" several times, begun to think and feel after a way to have some 'singable' songs, to both take in the seriousness of our predicament, and to try to lighten the load as we grieve our way through the great transition we are surely well into. Thanks to Ellie and her crew, Michael Dowd and his Post Doom, Post Gloom work, and William Catton and his "Overshoot," introducing us to the Homo Colossus we have become as a result of our industrial revolution. This song, "Homo Colossus Lament" was also inspired by the song I remember singing back in the 1950s at summer camp, "Oh They Built the Ship Titanic." The lyrics I wrote follow the P.M. Adamson version of that tune, found on YouTube. My guitar picking fingers are a little more still and my singing voice is not as pure as it once was. So maybe Ellie or one of you musicians could have made a better singable cover of it. I hope there might be more "Singalongs for Collapsing Times" to come. ----Milan Hamilton Here is the link to Homo Colossus Lament: https://youtu.be/5X2MJwJFY40

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Printed lyrics to Homo Colossus song
by Milan Hamilton 24 May '22

24 May '22

Ellie suggested I share the attached in case anyone wants to try improving on my singing and try it in a group sing. One even has the guitar chords. MM

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5/23/22 PHOTOS
by Frank Knutson 23 May '22

23 May '22

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5/21/22 PHOTOS
by Frank Knutson 21 May '22

21 May '22

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5/20/22 PHOTOS
by Frank Knutson 21 May '22

21 May '22

“Activism is the rent we pay for living on this planet.” ~Alice Walker

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