Thank you to Carol and Elizabeth, and to the poets! Nancy Trask ----- Original Message ----- From: James Wiegel <jfwiegel@yahoo.com> To: NANCY TRASK Owner <nancy50273@centurylink.net>, Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Cc: Colleague Dialogue <dialogue@wedgeblade.net> Sent: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 13:19:53 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Some poems truth in re-posting. The two poems I sent around came to me on Facebook this morning. From Elizabeth Landers Engleman and Carol Poole. So nice to have friends . . . Jim Wiegel “If you want an adventure . . . what a time to be alive!”. Joanna Macy 401 North Beverly Way,Tolleson, Arizona 85353623-363-3277jfwiegel@yahoo.comwww.partnersinparticipation.com Upcoming ToP training opportunities in Arizona More info on: ToP® Facilitation Methods ToP® Strategic Planning: Mastering the Technology of Participation Register on line / see the ToP National ScheduleAICP Planners: 14.5 CM for all ToP® courses The AZ ToP® Community of Practice meets the 1st Friday, of every month, 1-4 pm, at ACYR, 648 N. 5th Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85003 From: NANCY TRASK Owner <nancy50273@centurylink.net> To: James Wiegel <jfwiegel@yahoo.com>; Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Cc: Colleague Dialogue <dialogue@wedgeblade.net> Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2017 9:58 AM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Some poems #yiv6530742593 p {margin:0;}Thank you, Jim. These poems add to my armor as I pray for courage. I will share them with my local groups.Nancy Trask From: "James Wiegel via OE" <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>To: "Colleague Dialogue" <dialogue@wedgeblade.net>, "Order Ecumenical Community" <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2017 9:05:34 AM 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 thedark. 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 knowIf you could go back youwould walk with JesusYou would march with KingMaybe assassinate HitlerAt least hide Jews in your basementIt would all be clear to youBut people then, just like youwere baffled, had billsto pay and children they didn’tunderstand and they toowere so desperate for normalcythey made anything normalEven turning everything inside outEven killing, and killing, and it’s easyfor turning the other cheekto be looking the other way, for walkingto be talking, and they hidin their housesand watched it on television, when they had television,and wrung their handsor didn’t, and your handsare just like theirs. Lined, permeable,small, and youwould follow Caesar, and quote McCarthy, and Hoover, and you would wantto make Germany great againBecause you are afraid, and yourparents are sick, and yourjob pays s@$t and where’s yourdignity? Just a little dignity and those kids sitting down in the highway,and chaining themselves tobuildings, what’s their f@*#king problem? And that kidThat’s King. And this is Selma. And Berlin. And Jerusalem. And nowis when they need you to be brave.Nowis when we need you to go backand forget everything you knowand give up the things you’re chained toand make it look so easy in yourgrandkids’ history books (they should still have them, kinehora)Nowis when it will all be clear to them.~Danny Bryck Jim Wiegel401 North Beverly Way, Tolleson, Arizona 85353Tel. 011-623-936-8671 or 011-623-363-3277jfwiegel@yahoo.comwww.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 herehttp://partnersinparticipation.com/?page_id=10For 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 85003AICP Planners: 14.5 CM for all ToP® courses _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net