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The residents of 314(?) Homan in Fifth City were: Ron & Marci Clutz, third floor, Jim & Lynn Bell, basement, Terry & Karen Wright, third floor, Alice & myself, second floor. Late fall '71. Due to the cold, the steam heat was just turned on. The steam valve in our room was open and allowed live steam to flood our room with hot moisture soaking everything even the oil cloth ceiling. It sagged so low that on our return from our late night security detail, we could only open the door to our apartment with great effort. As we finally forced the door open what faced us in the living room were hundreds of cockroaches scurrying across the flour paste that held the oil cloth to the ceiling. We had to pull the rest of the ceiling cover down and roll it up in order to clear the room. We dragged the mess, cockroaches and all, out to the back and threw it on a pile of debris that had piled up. Cockroaches were our constant companions for a long time!
We also were assigned to Kemper and I believe we were on the sixth floor as well. Our room was a small office with two steel desks pushed together to make our bed and desk drawers for the rest of our "two suitcase" belongings. Our neighbors next to us were Ruth & Fred Haman and across the hall from us were Fred & Sarah Buss. At that time the permeators were arranged in teams. Ruth and I were on the same team of which I was the team leader when Ruth mysteriously disappeared. It was a frantic time and caused much commotion. We never found her.
Jim Baumbach
I was going to say something about living in a file cabinet room in the newly acquired Kemper building with two showers for everyone (one on the eighth floor and one on the six floor) but I guess I’ll just be quiet. As for scorpions I got bit by one in our bed a few years ago and another watching television in our living room.
yesterday I finished reading Thomas Berry‘s book the great work. in his closing chapters he talks about us living in a moment of grace by which he means a moment when something new has to happen one way or another like when something figured out how to use carbon dioxide or when respiration was invented or the discovery of the use of fire, or …Looking back, What really was the invention or innovation we were passionate about that led us to coal bin rooms icicle attics and tents in the monsoon? And what do these stories and photos have to say about THIS 21st Century moment of grace??
Jim Wiegel
“…the long work
of turning their lives
into a celebration
is not easy. Come and let us talk“.The Sunflowers. Mary Oliver
On Jul 5, 2022, at 7:57 PM, Holcombe Wanda via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
I Agree with you Jack….we were a “wild caring bunch” and willing to do whatever it took to Care for Others….
Our House & floor in Jejudo was with a Korean family in the village. We slept on Ondul floors (heated underneath….if we were lucky) and on a Yo mat (80x60 inches) which was just about the size of the room. We rolled it up in the morning and placed on a bench built into the back wall of the room where our clothes were placed. The walls were made of rice paper like you see in the movies and since our room was next to the rice storage room, the mice made their way across our room for their nightly meal. Fortunately they did not bother us as the “tasty” stuff was in the room next to ours that they had to pass through.
There are so many great tales to tell by any of us that I will finish off one more of the many I could tell and that was in Majuro. It seems the easiest way to set up for temporary housing was to sleep on the floor. The walls were so thin where we were housed, that we use to joke in the morning that we sometimes said to the couple in the next room, on the floor also. Let’s see if we can surpass your “mating” rituals and noise tonight….all in fun, I will not share who that couple was in the room on the floor next to us.
All in All….what a wonderful life it was because we were all in it Together, not for ourselves, but for what we were out to accomplish on Behalf of ALL “To
💓💞
Wanda
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On Jul 5, 2022, at 5:14 PM, Jack Gilles via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Dear Bill and Marilyn,
Thanks so much for yuru stories and experiences.. The images are real and stand out on stark contrast. What a wild bunch we were..
Peace Within,
Jack
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