Re: [Oe List ...] OE Digest, Vol 163, Issue 26
Audrey is great. We have met and she has engaged with several colleagues including the Dialogue Impact Award. I will pursue application advice With respect, Larry Larry Philbrook, CPF CTF ICA Taiwan www.icatw.com T: 8862 2871 3150 F: 8862 2871 2870 On Sun, Oct 12, 2025, 04:01 <oe-request@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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1. Re: Zoom info below Gail Oden Obituary (Paula Philbrook) 2. Re: Rhythm within award!!!! Yea, Karen!!!!!! (Isobel and Jim) 3. Re: Rhythm within award!!!! Yea, Karen!!!!!! (Dharmalingam Vinasithamby) 4. Congratulations Dear Karen!!! (Mari Crocker) 5. Re: Gail Oden Obituary (Evelyn Kurihara Philbrook) 6. Re: Rhythm within award!!!! Yea, Karen!!!!!! (Wendell Refior) 7. Furthering our conversation on undocumented immigrants and what to do (James Wiegel) 8. Re: Rhythm within award!!!! Yea, Karen!!!!!! (Nancy Lanphear) 9. Gail Oden (Alfrieda Wilkins) 10. Re: Furthering our conversation on undocumented immigrants and what to do (Terry Bergdall) 11. Re: Gail Oden (Isobel A Bishop)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Paula Philbrook <paula.philbrook@gmail.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Cc: Bcc: Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:50:05 -0500 Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Zoom info below Gail Oden Obituary Info for Gail's memorial zoom:
Lynn Oden is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: My Meeting *Time: Oct 18, 2025 02:00 PM Arizona ( may come in early to zoom, call Kay if difficulty)*
*Kay Schnizlein- 602 672 0899Join Zoom Meeting*
*https://yavapai.zoom.us/j/97892405726?pwd=L8q3JTSBrF5u4RP8Ise9uwAaztvurF.1* <https://yavapai.zoom.us/j/97892405726?pwd=L8q3JTSBrF5u4RP8Ise9uwAaztvurF.1>
*Meeting ID: 978 9240 5726* *Passcode: Gail*
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Isobel and Jim <isobeljimbish@optusnet.com.au> To: James Wiegel <jfwiegel@yahoo.com>, Order Ecumenical Community < oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Cc: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>, James Wiegel < jfwiegel@yahoo.com> Bcc: Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2025 11:31:57 +1100 Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Rhythm within award!!!! Yea, Karen!!!!!! Thank you Karen for your gifts! So freely given to Uptown and beyond! Warmest congratulations from us here in Australia. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻We celebrate your dedication and perserverance. Thank you . We honour you Karen. With love and gratitude. Isobel
Isobel Bishop Mob. 0412 129 425
On 11 Oct 2025, at 6:06 am, James Wiegel via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Karen Snyder Receives the Rhythm Within Award <https://youtu.be/boDpk5uZyRQ?si=tQ4Qaipr7PCjDU3B>
Karen Snyder Receives the Rhythm Within Award
<https://youtu.be/boDpk5uZyRQ?si=tQ4Qaipr7PCjDU3B> What a treat to know such people!!
Jim Wiegel <http://partnersinparticipation.com/james-wiegel/>
The unknown is what is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that. Unknown is what is. Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing. John Lennon
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Congratulations Karen for the award! Delightful to see the Kemper building and the Uptown surroundings in the video of the event. So glad that you and others are there as a sign of the continuing presence of Those Who Care.
Dharma
On Saturday, 11 October 2025 at 08:32:44 am MYT, Isobel and Jim via OE < oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Thank you Karen for your gifts! So freely given to Uptown and beyond! Warmest congratulations from us here in Australia. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻We celebrate your dedication and perserverance. Thank you . We honour you Karen. With love and gratitude. Isobel
Isobel Bishop Mob. 0412 129 425
On 11 Oct 2025, at 6:06 am, James Wiegel via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Karen Snyder Receives the Rhythm Within Award <https://youtu.be/boDpk5uZyRQ?si=tQ4Qaipr7PCjDU3B>
Karen Snyder Receives the Rhythm Within Award
<https://youtu.be/boDpk5uZyRQ?si=tQ4Qaipr7PCjDU3B> What a treat to know such people!!
Jim Wiegel <http://partnersinparticipation.com/james-wiegel/>
The unknown is what is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that. Unknown is what is. Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing. John Lennon
401 North Beverly Way, Tolleson, Arizona 85353
623-363-3277
jfwiegel@yahoo.com <marilyn.oyler@gmail.com>
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mari Crocker <maricrocker@gmail.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>, Karen Snyder < karen.snyder10@gmail.com> Cc: Bcc: Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 21:17:59 -0400 Subject: [Oe List ...] Congratulations Dear Karen!!! Hi Karen,
What a commendation from Uptown and the World.
I think you should be a nominee for Mika Brzezinski’s “Know Your Value 50 Over 50 Award.”
Keep on “going, girl!”
Love you,
Mari
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Evelyn Kurihara Philbrook <joyful52@gmail.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Cc: Bcc: Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2025 12:56:16 +0800 Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Gail Oden Obituary Thank you Paula for sharing Gail's life tribute! She lived a long time ! I am sure she will be missed. Evelyn, & Larry Philbrook Sent from EKPhilbrook
On Oct 11, 2025, at 12:10 AM, Joyce Sloan via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
With fond memories of the Odens, I send hugs and condolences to Lynn, Lance, Lief and their families.
On Thu, Oct 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM Paula Philbrook via OE < oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
On the evening of September 20, 2025, Mrs. Gail Oden passed peacefully in her sleep at the Landings of Prescott Valley, Arizona. She was just a few weeks shy of her 87th birthday. Up to the very end, Gail maintained an abiding and unflinching love for her family and friends that she manifested in service and was the hallmark in the life of this graceful daughter, sister, wife, mother, and grandmother. Gail was born in Binghampton, New York to Aurther and Helen Monell. She was the second of four children and was strongly connected to her family. The Monell clan lived with passion and devotion to one another and to the world in which they walked. Gail evidenced this passion in her own mission to South America and in her careers as a teacher and as a medical technician. She met another missionary who had served in South America, Dr. Lynn Oden, and quickly convinced him that they should marry and form a family. Their service continued in the raising of two sons and dedication to improving the world in which they raised them. They travelled across the nation and overseas to Asia in their efforts to bring light to the world and serve as examples to the young men they were launching into that world. A lone woman in this sea of raging testosterone, she remained the iron spine in their ongoing service to others. She cared for them all, all those they brought home, and all those she found in the world in need. She loved and she served. In later years she delighted in the service of her husband and sons and in the joy of grandchildren, many of whom quickly outgrew her in stature, but never in heart. She is preceded in death by her parents, her older sister, Marlene, and younger brother, Richard. She is survived and cherished by her husband, Lynn, her sister Rita Byers, sons Lance (and wife Remi) and Leif (and wife Amara), and a plethora of grandchildren whom she adored. The memorial event will be held on Saturday, October 18th at Windsong Retirement Villas. 3386 North Windsong Drive, Prescott Valley, Arizona 86314 at 2:00pm. All are invited. Love, Lynn Oden
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Wendell Refior <wendellrefior@gmail.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Cc: Bcc: Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:10:54 -0500 Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Rhythm within award!!!! Yea, Karen!!!!!! Hi - Congratulations, Karen. It has been a great pleasure and rewarding to work with you on the ICA Global Archives. Wendell
On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM Dharmalingam Vinasithamby via OE < oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Congratulations Karen for the award! Delightful to see the Kemper building and the Uptown surroundings in the video of the event. So glad that you and others are there as a sign of the continuing presence of Those Who Care.
Dharma
On Saturday, 11 October 2025 at 08:32:44 am MYT, Isobel and Jim via OE < oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Thank you Karen for your gifts! So freely given to Uptown and beyond! Warmest congratulations from us here in Australia. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻We celebrate your dedication and perserverance. Thank you . We honour you Karen. With love and gratitude. Isobel
Isobel Bishop Mob. 0412 129 425
On 11 Oct 2025, at 6:06 am, James Wiegel via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Karen Snyder Receives the Rhythm Within Award <https://youtu.be/boDpk5uZyRQ?si=tQ4Qaipr7PCjDU3B>
Karen Snyder Receives the Rhythm Within Award
<https://youtu.be/boDpk5uZyRQ?si=tQ4Qaipr7PCjDU3B> What a treat to know such people!!
Jim Wiegel <http://partnersinparticipation.com/james-wiegel/>
The unknown is what is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that. Unknown is what is. Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing. John Lennon
401 North Beverly Way, Tolleson, Arizona 85353
623-363-3277
jfwiegel@yahoo.com <marilyn.oyler@gmail.com>
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-- Sincerely yours. "We must be lovers." "..the sentiment of love. This is the one remedy for all ills, the panacea of nature." - Emerson in lecture, "Man, The Reformer" (1841) Wendell
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James Wiegel <jfwiegel@yahoo.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Cc: Sunny Walker <sunny.sunwalker@gmail.com>, Order Ecumenical Community < oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Bcc: Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2025 09:23:53 -0700 Subject: [Oe List ...] Furthering our conversation on undocumented immigrants and what to do Judy and I were watching an interview with Audrey Tang(?) Taiwan's Minister of Digital Affairs last night. She got talking about what has been done in Taiwan to overcome polarization and the lowering of trust in government. I found this video of hers very stimulating of what democracy could mean moving into the future. She talks of generating "Collective Intelligence" https://youtu.be/2OGKzOWplyQ
Here is a link to the interview we watched on PBS
https://www.pbs.org/video/audrey-tang-rf1pro/
All this blows my mind a bit, and I wonder if our colleague dialogue and oe lists might evolve on this. Also wondering what efforts are happening in the US and other places
Jim Wiegel
“We are all time travelers journeying into the future. But let us make that future a place we want to visit. “ Stephen Hawking
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nancy Lanphear <nancylanphear@gmail.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Cc: James Wiegel <jfwiegel@yahoo.com>, Isobel and Jim < isobeljimbish@optusnet.com.au>, Order Ecumenical Community < oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Bcc: Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2025 09:51:35 -0700 Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Rhythm within award!!!! Yea, Karen!!!!!! What great news about the award, Karen, and so richly deserved. Not only have you initiated many projects, you’ve seen them through and/or encouraged others along the way, sharing your wisdom and skills. It’s a privilege to be among your colleagues and friends all these 50 years. Thank you for your service, locally and globally. Sent with love ❤️ Nancy
On Oct 10, 2025, at 5:31 PM, Isobel and Jim via OE < oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Thank you Karen for your gifts! So freely given to Uptown and beyond! Warmest congratulations from us here in Australia. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻We celebrate your dedication and perserverance. Thank you . We honour you Karen. With love and gratitude. Isobel
Isobel Bishop Mob. 0412 129 425
On 11 Oct 2025, at 6:06 am, James Wiegel via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Karen Snyder Receives the Rhythm Within Award <https://youtu.be/boDpk5uZyRQ?si=tQ4Qaipr7PCjDU3B>
Karen Snyder Receives the Rhythm Within Award
<https://youtu.be/boDpk5uZyRQ?si=tQ4Qaipr7PCjDU3B> What a treat to know such people!!
Jim Wiegel <http://partnersinparticipation.com/james-wiegel/>
The unknown is what is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that. Unknown is what is. Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing. John Lennon
401 North Beverly Way, Tolleson, Arizona 85353
623-363-3277
jfwiegel@yahoo.com <marilyn.oyler@gmail.com>
www.partnersinparticipation.com
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alfrieda Wilkins <alfriedawilkins@gmail.com> To: oe@lists.wedgeblade.net Cc: Bcc: Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2025 09:54:02 -0700 Subject: [Oe List ...] Gail Oden Goodness, how the Saints keep marching in at this time. I had the opportunity to cross paths with Gail and her family at the Houston house. She was a stalwart colleague, just as her obituary reflected. Condolences to the family. Just at the time so many seem to be exiting the planet, the rest of us need to become “like camels” according to Matthew Fox. Filling ourselves with goodness, and beauty and humility and compassion and gratitude however we can, for the long journey ahead. We know not for how long but we do know where we want to head. Alfrieda Wilkins
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Terry Bergdall <bergdall2@gmail.com> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Cc: Bcc: Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2025 12:15:00 -0500 Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Furthering our conversation on undocumented immigrants and what to do Thanks, Jim. I found this video to be very interesting. It is one of the few pieces I’ve seen or read that motivates me to look more serious into the positive opportunities that AI might enable. I still have no idea how the “collective intelligence” described in this video actually works, nor how it might be practically applied in a small group like ours, but I am open to giving it a try. Given the animosity I’ve had in general to manipulative aspects of social media and the potential for abuse of AI, that's something. Maybe it’s the beginning of an “image change” for me!
Terry
On Oct 11, 2025, at 11:23, James Wiegel via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Judy and I were watching an interview with Audrey Tang(?) Taiwan's Minister of Digital Affairs last night. She got talking about what has been done in Taiwan to overcome polarization and the lowering of trust in government. I found this video of hers very stimulating of what democracy could mean moving into the future. She talks of generating "Collective Intelligence" https://youtu.be/2OGKzOWplyQ
Here is a link to the interview we watched on PBS
https://www.pbs.org/video/audrey-tang-rf1pro/
All this blows my mind a bit, and I wonder if our colleague dialogue andor lists might evolve on this. Also wondering what efforts are happening in the US and other places
Jim Wiegel
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Isobel A Bishop <isobeljimbish@optusnet.com.au> To: Beret Griffith via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Cc: Bcc: Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2025 06:45:21 +1100 Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Gail Oden Dear Alfrieda, Thank you for your words which are so grounded. I salute you :) It is a joy to read the condolences which we write about those who pass on to the glory land. I remember both the Odens with deep respect. I did not work closely with Gail, and yet I noticed a genuine depth and wisdom and deep strength within. Thank you Jim Weigel for the two links you sent. I deeply appreciate the thoughts of Audrey Tang. Down here although we have a breathing space in our more progressive Government, China is a nearby huge concern to us and Pacifica.
In hope and with love, Isobel
On 12 Oct 2025, at 3:54 am, Alfrieda Wilkins via OE < oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Goodness, how the Saints keep marching in at this time. I had the opportunity to cross paths with Gail and her family at the Houston house. She was a stalwart colleague, just as her obituary reflected. Condolences to the family. Just at the time so many seem to be exiting the planet, the rest of us need to become “like camels” according to Matthew Fox. Filling ourselves with goodness, and beauty and humility and compassion and gratitude however we can, for the long journey ahead. We know not for how long but we do know where we want to head. Alfrieda Wilkins _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net
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