Jo, Gordon and others, Would It be possible to celebrate Wayne's life with a virtual memorial service where those of us from across the world with computers and a phone could join in? I participated in a virtual wedding last year and it truly felt as if I was there so I know this is possible. They did it with Adobe Connect visual. We could pair it with GoToMeeting audio so people could both hear and see the celebration but all could participate visually and connect. Jean On Jan 28, 2014, at 12:46 PM, oe-request@lists.wedgeblade.net wrote:
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1. How Do We Celebrate as a Community? (Gordon Harper) 2. Wayne (Margaret Aiseayew) 3. Remembering and giving thanks for Wayne (Marilyn Crocker) 4. Re: Wayne (Marsha Hahn) 5. Re: How Do We Celebrate as a Community? (Dharmalingam Vinasithamby) 6. Wayne Nelson (Beret Griffith) 7. Re: [Dialogue] Wayne Nelson (George Packard) 8. Re: [Dialogue] Wayne Nelson (Sarah H. Buss) 9. Re: Wayne (LAURELCG@aol.com) 10. Re: [Dialogue] Wayne Nelson (Duncan Holmes) 11. Tribute to Wayne Nelson (jlepps@pc.jaring.my) 12. Re: Tribute to Wayne Nelson (Terry Bergdall)
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Message: 1 Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:08:46 -0800 From: Gordon Harper <gharper1@mindspring.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Subject: [Oe List ...] How Do We Celebrate as a Community? Message-ID: <CAM7deNiRODWh5fXn9Y_GTAGujbJZKB8hrKkyn9HAZvWbrbTm0Q@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
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?"
Gordon