Lightened-Up

I dreamed of Daddy,

A healing dream,

Awakening unburdened

From the heavy load

I didn't realize I carried.

The first offense

I chose to bear

Was not having a father

Like Dick and Jane's,

In a suit, white shirt and tie.

My educated moralism grew.

I resented his country speech,

His chosen fun,

Even his work-scarred hands

And dirty fingernails.

Judgment became a

Cumbersome habit,

Unnoticed, until angels

Came in the night and

Relieved me of its weight.

I don't recall the dream

But awoke remembering

His vast love for me

And the words on his tomb:

"The truth will set you free."

Jann McGuire

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From: Margaret Aiseayew via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>
To: 'Sunny Walker' <sunwalker@comcast.net>; 'Dialogue OE' <oe@wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Mon, Nov 3, 2014 7:22 am
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] All Saints Day now passed

William Appelgate, one of our guardians and known to many of you. I only decided to add his name after Sunny added her mom who was personally known to me and was truly a saint.

The fact of the matter is that we are all saints as well as sinners. We tend to focus on the latter and diminish ourselves and the wonder of creation in the process. At the Iowa In-gathering this weekend I had an amazing encounter with a woman who told a wonderful story about how my father had changed her life forever simply by honestly answering her question at the end of a presentation he had done for Heifer International. She spoke of the confidence and affirmation of her life his clear and simple answer provided her as a ‘new to the community’ teacher. She has never forgotten him and the lesson of his response which shaped her life as an educator.

Don’t diminish, either in your lives, your relationship to yourself and others, or in your relationship to the world and the ground of your being your own sainthood. You are always in the process of encouraging and sustaining others (me) in being.

Margaret

From: OE [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Sunny Walker via OE
Sent: Sunday, November 2, 2014 10:53 PM
To: 'Dialogue OE'
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] All Saints Day tomorrow

Helen Walker (my mom) – unknown to most of you, but a saint, nonetheless.

From: OE [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Isobel A Bishop via OE
Sent: Sunday, November 2, 2014 2:34 PM
To: frank bremner
Cc: Dialogue OE
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] All Saints Day tomorrow

Thanks so much, Doris and Frank.

In peace,

Isobel Bishop

On 02/11/2014, at 7:42 PM, frank bremner via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

Maisie Maher

To: dshahn31@gmail.com; oe@wedgeblade.net
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 20:17:37 -0400
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] All Saints Day tomorrow
From: oe@lists.wedgeblade.net

Charles Moore

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From: Doris Hahn via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>
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Sent: Sat, Nov 1, 2014 5:30 pm
Subject: [Oe List ...] All Saints Day tomorrow

I am thinking it would be helpful exercise to post a list of colleagues who have died since last November 1 (2013) -- All Saints Day.

I will start with our most recent one, and please add all the others:

Judy Gilles

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