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"Journey Reflection" most read blogs (Jan. 2017)
by John C via OE 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

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Some poems
by James Wiegel via OE 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

"TWO POEMS FROM THIS MORNING A Ritual to Read to Each Other" by William Stafford If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star. For there is many a small betrayal in the mind, a shrug that lets the fragile sequence break sending with shouts the horrible errors of childhood storming out to play through the broken dike. And as elephants parade holding each elephant's tail, but if one wanders the circus won't find the park, I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty to know what occurs but not recognize the fact. And so I appeal to a voice, to something shadowy, a remote important region in all who talk: though we could fool each other, we should consider— lest the parade of our mutual life get lost in the dark. For it is important that awake people be awake, or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep; the signals we give — yes or no, or maybe — should be clear: the darkness around us is deep. Deeply grateful to Helen Gerhardt for this: ............................ I know, I know If you could go back you would walk with Jesus You would march with King Maybe assassinate Hitler At least hide Jews in your basement It would all be clear to you But people then, just like you were baffled, had bills to pay and children they didn’t understand and they too were so desperate for normalcy they made anything normal Even turning everything inside out Even killing, and killing, and it’s easy for turning the other cheek to be looking the other way, for walking to be talking, and they hid in their houses and watched it on television, when they had television, and wrung their hands or didn’t, and your hands are just like theirs. Lined, permeable, small, and you would follow Caesar, and quote McCarthy, and Hoover, and you would want to make Germany great again Because you are afraid, and your parents are sick, and your job pays s@$t and where’s your dignity? Just a little dignity and those kids sitting down in the highway, and chaining themselves to buildings, what’s their f@*#king problem? And that kid That’s King. And this is Selma. And Berlin. And Jerusalem. And now is when they need you to be brave. Now is when we need you to go back and forget everything you know and give up the things you’re chained to and make it look so easy in your grandkids’ history books (they should still have them, kinehora) Now is when it will all be clear to them. ~Danny Bryck 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 "We are no longer living in an era of change. We are living in a change of era." Francis 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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Re: [Oe List ...] Some poems, notes from church, story, and last week's women's march
by via OE 29 Jan '17

29 Jan '17

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Re: [Oe List ...] Some poems
by Rod Rippel via OE 29 Jan '17

29 Jan '17

Thanks Jim, Very powerful poems. On the mark for today’s anxieties. Rod Rippel From: James Wiegel via OE Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2017 7:05 AM To: Colleague Dialogue ; Order Ecumenical Community Subject: [Oe List ...] Some poems "TWO POEMS FROM THIS MORNING A Ritual to Read to Each Other" by William Stafford If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star. For there is many a small betrayal in the mind, a shrug that lets the fragile sequence break sending with shouts the horrible errors of childhood storming out to play through the broken dike. And as elephants parade holding each elephant's tail, but if one wanders the circus won't find the park, I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty to know what occurs but not recognize the fact. And so I appeal to a voice, to something shadowy, a remote important region in all who talk: though we could fool each other, we should consider— lest the parade of our mutual life get lost in the dark. For it is important that awake people be awake, or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep; the signals we give — yes or no, or maybe — should be clear: the darkness around us is deep. Deeply grateful to Helen Gerhardt for this: ............................ I know, I know If you could go back you would walk with Jesus You would march with King Maybe assassinate Hitler At least hide Jews in your basement It would all be clear to you But people then, just like you were baffled, had bills to pay and children they didn’t understand and they too were so desperate for normalcy they made anything normal Even turning everything inside out Even killing, and killing, and it’s easy for turning the other cheek to be looking the other way, for walking to be talking, and they hid in their houses and watched it on television, when they had television, and wrung their hands or didn’t, and your hands are just like theirs. Lined, permeable, small, and you would follow Caesar, and quote McCarthy, and Hoover, and you would want to make Germany great again Because you are afraid, and your parents are sick, and your job pays s@$t and where’s your dignity? Just a little dignity and those kids sitting down in the highway, and chaining themselves to buildings, what’s their f@*#king problem? And that kid That’s King. And this is Selma. And Berlin. And Jerusalem. And now is when they need you to be brave. Now is when we need you to go back and forget everything you know and give up the things you’re chained to and make it look so easy in your grandkids’ history books (they should still have them, kinehora) Now is when it will all be clear to them. ~Danny Bryck 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 "We are no longer living in an era of change. We are living in a change of era." Francis 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE(a)lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net

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Global Buzz reminder
by ICA International via OE 29 Jan '17

29 Jan '17

Reminder for entries This reminder is for the Global Buzz that will be published February 5th. 2017 (Please send your entries at least a day 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 Février 2017 (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 Febrero 2017 (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 ...] OE Digest, Vol 58, Issue 38
by Jaime R Vergara via OE 29 Jan '17

29 Jan '17

Would send my Sichuan tea, but I am sure it will be too late. Carol, I knew your hubby in Majuro. I am getting old, and just trying to even get his first name is a chore, but please get yourself comfortable, and enjoy your northwest Pacific winter. Jaime Shenyang and Saipan wangzhimu2031 earthrise consciousness, a gift; earthbound commitment, my choice yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today, participate! in all, celebrate! -----Original Message----- From: via OE <oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> To: oe <oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Sun, Jan 29, 2017 5:11 am Subject: OE Digest, Vol 58, Issue 38 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. Auburn letter (Jaime R Vergara via OE) 2. Re: Cariol Crow's 30 year journey - on the land! (Del Morrill via OE) 3. Re: Cariol Crow's 30 year journey - on the land! (Milan Hamilton via OE) 4. Re: Cariol Crow's 30 year journey - on the land! (Sherwood Shankland via OE) 5. Re: Cariol Crow's 30 year journey - on the land! (Karenbueno via OE) 6. Cariol Crow's 30 year journey - on the land! (Holcombe Wanda via OE) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 17:50:18 -0500 From: Jaime R Vergara via OE <oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> To: oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net, oe-request(a)lists.wedgeblade.net Subject: [Oe List ...] Auburn letter Message-ID: <159e21f4ab6-6525-d96b(a)webprd-m107.mail.aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" A draft for Marianas Variety publication 02.07 Auburn to White Christians It came in the form of a letter, a confessionalstatement from White Americans that began: Fiftyfour years ago this coming April, Dr. Martin Luther King wrote a letter fromthe Birmingham jail to white Christian leaders on issues of racial justice andthe future of our nation. ? AuburnSeminary ? pen(ned) a letter to white Christians. The white Christian vote wascrucial to the election of Donald J. Trump, who ? disparage(s) anddisrespect(s) people of color, women, and many others. Theletter lives off the reputation of MLK Jr. whose mark among Whiteys put Obamato office, though heavily laced with guilt. Threatened and defensive, Whitey chose Trump to pacify its fears. Not a very smart choice, understandable buthardly justifiable. Thismissive was not intended as a window-dressing letter. With John Lewis finding himself in a tiffwith The Donald, the issues raised are very relevant. While it did not exhibit the language of theexistential angst of those who echoed Moltman?s half-a-century old theology ofhope, or the theistic thoughts of Bultmann, Tillich, Bonheoffer and Niebuhr, itdid invite White Christians to examine whereof they cast their votes. We shall not even venture into themetaphorical death-of-god expressions of Gabriel Vahanian, Thomas JJ Altizer,et al, whose movement since Time Magazine focused on it, changed Whitey?secclesiology big time. ? let?s prepare ourselvesfor action. Let?s stop hiding the ugly and racist dimensions of our past. Instead, we can tell the truth about itopenly, with repentance and humility. Let?s get ready to protect vulnerable peoplewho are threatened by hate and injustice. Let?s take to the streets in protest whenevernecessary. If people are being harmed orthreatened, we should have the courage to stand with them? (underliningadded). The signatories were Austin,Bass, Evans, Harvey, McLaren, Messina, Scharen, Volf, and Whitmore, allEuropean-sourced (Latin, Teutonic, Scot-Irish, British) sounding names. Inthe midst of the assault on the numinous status of Hispanic immigration (TheDonald justified the building of a wall as a prerogative of a nation to setboundaries; there are no visible barriers or walls between Canada and the US),an Iliff Seminary Professor penned the theology of hopelessness that iscurrently in the silent halls of medieval theological schools. It reflects today?s mind and behavior as earthboundin significance and meaning, not the infinite and eternal wonder of Santa inthe Sky. Duringthe Women?s March after Trump?s inauguration, a colleague used a quote from afemale Aussie aboriginal: If you have come to help me, you are wastingyour time. But if you have come becauseyour liberation is bound with mine, then let us work together. Whiteyis not seeking help or protection from the Donald. It is seeking liberation from the illusionthat ?America is White?, its pet racial prejudice. Yes, ?in White America? is a desperateholding-on to New England?s heritage, packaged well by the Kennedys and theircohorts but nonetheless, still in Whitey?s overcoats. Trumpcannot liberate Whitey, unless by a miracle, Trump himself acknowledges that heneeds liberating from the limits of his relationships to women and minorities,and when Whitey realizes that the source of its strength in race relations inthe triumph of the Union vs. the Confederacy, and the Emancipation Declarationof Abe, is also its known Achilles heel. AChinese Hotel Intern who participated in an NMC English Language DevelopmentCourse I facilitated, stumbled on the transcendent perspective on humanity inthe language of G-O-D, and did not know what to do with her ?belief? structuresince the sociological ?salvific-redemptive? nature of being part of acongregation is foreign to her. Iremember walking out of such orientation more than a decade ago; ?Church?remained an imperial force. But there itwas, the human experience that hungered for form to contain and maintain itsspirituality. Trump,viewed as a liberator, will be a dictator. Whitey seeking liberation by forsaking any dependency on any externalforce other than its own enlightenment shall be greatly served to walk proudlyinto the future, and will be devoid of what has so far been the comforting armsof an Uncle Sam, or the theoretical dependence on a deity that assuredcertitude. Any minority group seekinganother MLK, Jr. to hold its hands will be grossly disappointed. MLK?sletter from the Birmingham jail was of one refused entry into Whitey?s world. He was liberating himself from the illusionsof ?America?. The Auburn letter is ofWhite Christians struggling with a faith that shakes its imperial orientation;if it is a liberation of themselves that is at stake, the work ahead is full. Realityrears its authentic head often, devastating comfort. I hold no hope for the liberation of WhiteChristians and Trump, but it is a delight to be proven wrong. Thanks, Auburn. Your turn, Whitey! wangzhimu2031 earthrise consciousness, a gift; earthbound commitment, my choice yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today, participate! in all, celebrate! -----Original Message----- From: via OE <oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> To: oe <oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Fri, Jan 27, 2017 4:50 am Subject: OE Digest, Vol 58, Issue 37

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When the Saints go marching in
by Hampton, Stuart via OE 28 Jan '17

28 Jan '17

With the death of Bill Bailey, I am reminded as to how our OE Saints are all marching in as their names are called. Beyond condolences, it is often hard to know what else to do. Here's a cultural idea to think about. At soccer matches in Europe, to recognize the death of someone who was dear to the sports club, at a designated time the fans in the crowd at the stadium are encouraged to participate in one minute of ..... applause. That's right, not silence, applause. A full throated, noisy ovation of appreciation for that recently departed person. What if we picked a designated time after each of our Saints march in and stop what we are doing, say their name, and give them one last sustained round of global, collective applause for being? Way to go. Cheers, Stuart

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Cariol Crow's 30 year journey - on the land!
by Holcombe Wanda via OE 28 Jan '17

28 Jan '17

Dear Carol....Best Wishes on your new journey. Your gifts to Songai have been life giving and nurturing for all who participated in it's gifts, myself included. May this next phase of your life be filled with wonder and Grace & Peace🌈 Sent from my iPhone

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Re: [Oe List ...] Cariol Crow's 30 year journey - on the land!
by Sherwood Shankland via OE 28 Jan '17

28 Jan '17

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Re: [Oe List ...] Cariol Crow's 30 year journey - on the land!
by Del Morrill via OE 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

Dear Nancy, How we shall miss this special occasion; neither of us is up to it during the day as we have something in the evening – a bit too much for us now. Amazing to think we used to find it easy to get in 2 or 3 things a day in earlier years – no longer, it seems. Give our love to her and to the rest. We’ll think of you. Del and Justin From: OE [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Nancy Lanphear via OE Sent: Monday, January 23, 2017 4:57 PM To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net>; Dorothea Jewell <dj.jewell(a)comcast.net>; Jann McGuire <laurelcg(a)aol.com>; Joan Knutson <Jfknutson(a)aol.com>; Lee and Leah Early <leahearly(a)comcast.net>; Martha Dempster <Skysoks2u(a)aol.com>; Molly Shaw <mollyshaw54(a)gmail.com>; Nancy Lanphear <nancy(a)songaia.com>; Roger & Maxine Butcher <RMXButcher(a)dslextreme.com>; Sharon A. Fisher <saf1220(a)gmail.com>; Sharry Lachman <SharryLachman(a)comcast.net> Subject: [Oe List ...] Cariol Crow's 30 year journey - on the land! Dear Friends, There are many transitions that we are making these days as we all grow older, perhaps wiser? One such journey is being celebrated on Saturday, January 28th, 2017. Some of you may know the story of the discovery of the land that was to become the Residential Learning Center and later, Songaia community. One day in 1986, Carol came up the driveway of the property along with a toddler, Jason Coffman. In her report of visiting the land, she announced, "Jason and I have found the PLACE!" Her footprint is very firmly planted on our land. Her care of community, including the place and its folks has been enormous. Her many years of contributions and energy to both the community and to Rite of Passage Journeys are evident everywhere. She will be missed in so many ways. Her smile and warmth of welcome and the touches of her care are seen everywhere. She watched over us with a kind and loving heart. Carol's daughters have been encouraging her for several years to move closer to them. So now, 30 years later, she is moving closer to her most of her family located in Seattle and West Seattle. Our community is honoring Carol with a "high tea" on Saturday, January 28th at 4:00 (of course, isn't that tea time?) . Although words cannot always speak what is in our hearts, we are inviting those of you who might be able to share stories of her years at the RLC, The Woodinville Unitarian Universalist Church (where she and Stan were founding members), and Songaia to send them to us as a way to remind Carol that she is loved. If it is possible for you to join us on Saturday at 4pm, please RSVP. With love, Nancy Lanphear Patricia Newkirk Her new address is: Carol Crow 5214 Fauntleroy Way, SW Unit A, Seattle, WA 98136 Home phone - 206-735-7022 <tel:%28206%29%20735-7022> Cell - 206-406-8439 <tel:%28206%29%20406-8439>

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