Thank you Gordon. I just went to the Completions page, my first visit, and read the page on David McClesky. It was a profound experience and certainly one good way of participating in the celebration of completed lives in our community. I am inspired to contribute pages on two other late colleagues and shall do so in due course. regards Dharmalingam
________________________________ From: Gordon Harper <gharper1@mindspring.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 4:08 AM Subject: [Oe List ...] How Do We Celebrate as a Community?
It seems to me not at all easy--in fact, damnably hard--in our dispersed state, to know how best to celebrate a completed life like that of our colleague, Wayne Nelson. For most of us, it's sharing a story or two and a word of appreciation here on the listservs, which is a practice that I certainly appreciate.
Jo, the family and our colleagues in Canada, when the time is right, may suggest other ways in which we can all somehow participate in the celebration of this unique and remarkable life. In the meantime, some of us just might have creative thoughts about how we could now do this for one another in the 21st century.
One experiment, launched a few years back on the death of another colleague in Canada (Brian Stanfield), is the Completions page on the Repository website. Here's the link, if you haven't been there for a while:
http://wiki.wedgeblade.net/bin/view/Main/CompletedLives
Like everything on the Repository, these pages appear when people put them up, and the initial posting of the basic bios, pictures and stories has generally been by the families involved. (Len, Tim and I are always available to help.) There's no set format for these pages, and you'll notice that they manifest a variety of forms and stages of completion.
That's one option (but only one), as we think about how we might now celebrate--together in some fashion--these great journeys and marking points.
I don't know--perhaps we should ask, "What would we like the rest of us to do when it's our turn?"
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