From Chief Tecumseh (1768-1813): So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people.Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place.Trouble no one about their religion.Show respect to all people and grovel to none.When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living.Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.Sing your death song and die like a hero going home. On Monday, May 15, 2023 at 01:23:29 PM PDT, Karen Snyder via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: In the December Archive sojourn, we read excerpts from Hesse’s Journey to the East which I paraphrase here: It was our destiny to join in a great experience; we were all permitted to be a participant in a unique journey. What wonder it had …. Four giant men who participated with us on the unique journey - the crimson line - have left us within a month: Joe Crocker (April 27), Bud Ames (May 4), Nelson Stover (May 4) and Bill Grow (May 14). See memorials created to celebrate their lives here: https://icaglobalarchives.org/memorials/ (Bill’s is yet to come). For those of you who may not be as familiar with the Ames family, Bud and his wife, Jan, were Guardians who gave ground support to 5th City and the EI/ICA for some thirty years they lived in Oak Park/Chicago. While Jan taught in the 5th City Preschool and directed Training Inc. in DuPage County, Bud was the permeator of the family. However, while the Human Development Project consults were happening, Dr. Ames, in his quiet gracious manner would attend the consults as a veterinarian and work with the Agriculture Teams and introduce them to animal husbandry methods. He turned his daily running into supporting passions he had to address poverty and hunger by raising thousands of dollars for Heifer International. For these four giants, we are singing, "When Iron Men go marching in”. Peace, Karen Snyder Troxel On May 15, 2023, at 1:27 PM, Herman Greene via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: With heavy heart I have just learned of the deaths of these three great souls. The fruits of their labor will flourish and grow. Herman On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 12:16 PM Ruth Gilbert via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: Ellen, Ken and I had a conversation about all three of these men at our breakfast table this morning. Ellen, I appreciated that you gathered their names together, named their blessing to us and allowed us to sing with you, and for them. These events remind us once again, that we have but one life to live, and one life to give. These men are demonstrations of the choices they made and the gifts they offered during their lifetimes. We who remain living, are called by them to make choices and offer the gifts that we have. Ruth On May 15, 2023, at 10:20 AM, David Rebstock via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: We celebrate the completed lives of three giants who passed on to glory in the last week: Joe Crocker, Nelson Stover and Bill Grow. What a blessing they have all been to our lives with their wisdom, patience and spirit. I'm singing "For All The Saints" in my heart. Ellen Rebstock_______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net