A Very Brief Collegium
Beloved Colleagues -- Few of us, as the end of life approaches, get the chance to speak directly to anything like our whole community. It appears that I have that opportunity, and I’m taking advantage of it. Last week, after two months of medical testing to find out what had suddenly landed on me and drained me of my strength and usual energy, Roxana and I got the diagnosis. It’s a rare form of fairly fast moving (typically two months to two years) leukemia, called CMML. There’s little to be done to treat it, especially in someone my age (about to be 79). I'm getting good medical care and have a fine local support community here in Seattle. First of all, I want you all to know that I am at peace with this, as is Roxana. My life--in good part because of you--has been rich, crazy, wonder-filled and a unique and unrepeatable journey with the Mystery. And no one knows better than you and I how to celebrate both our being here and the completion of our journeys. I am taking this rare chance to express to all of you how much you’ve meant to me over the years--as the amazing collection of individual nobodies we are that rode out like the Man of La Mancha to throw our beings into the challenge of bending history. More than that, you all contributed your own weird and special gifts, neuroses and idiosyncrasies to the makeup of our corporate life and community, all over the world. Without you, there’d never have been such a community; so thank you, thank you, thank you. I hope to be able to chat with at least some of you individually or collectively over the time remaining to me, through one of the dizzying array of communication tools at hand today, and give you a little abuse. (What else would you expect from me? And please--do return the favor.) We’ll see how things work out. In the meantime, this note will have to stand for my salute to all of you, my heartfelt gratitude for your having been and continuing to be who you are and for that remarkable webbing and mission that connects us. The peace of God is yours this day -- Gordon
Gordon, I salute you right back, sir. You’ve always struck me as a gentle intellectual giant and for the contributions of mind and heart you have made to our movement, I give thanks and celebrate a life well and fully lived. Thank you for reaching out, letting us know what is going on and giving us all a chance to to be with you in these final days. Terran E. Longacre Monrovia, Liberia just another child of God Blog: http://tlongacre.wordpress.com <http://tlongacre.wordpress.com/> Run Blog: http://revruns.blogspot.com <http://revruns.blogspot.com/> Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tlongacre/ <http://www.flickr.com/photos/tlongacre/> ———-O0ooo— ———–(——)— ————)–-/—- ————(_/- —-ooo0O—- —-(——)—- —–\-–(– ——\_)-
On 4 Sep, 2015, at 04:19 , Gordon Harper via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Beloved Colleagues --
Few of us, as the end of life approaches, get the chance to speak directly to anything like our whole community. It appears that I have that opportunity, and I’m taking advantage of it.
Last week, after two months of medical testing to find out what had suddenly landed on me and drained me of my strength and usual energy, Roxana and I got the diagnosis. It’s a rare form of fairly fast moving (typically two months to two years) leukemia, called CMML. There’s little to be done to treat it, especially in someone my age (about to be 79). I'm getting good medical care and have a fine local support community here in Seattle.
First of all, I want you all to know that I am at peace with this, as is Roxana. My life--in good part because of you--has been rich, crazy, wonder-filled and a unique and unrepeatable journey with the Mystery. And no one knows better than you and I how to celebrate both our being here and the completion of our journeys.
I am taking this rare chance to express to all of you how much you’ve meant to me over the years--as the amazing collection of individual nobodies we are that rode out like the Man of La Mancha to throw our beings into the challenge of bending history. More than that, you all contributed your own weird and special gifts, neuroses and idiosyncrasies to the makeup of our corporate life and community, all over the world. Without you, there’d never have been such a community; so thank you, thank you, thank you.
I hope to be able to chat with at least some of you individually or collectively over the time remaining to me, through one of the dizzying array of communication tools at hand today, and give you a little abuse. (What else would you expect from me? And please--do return the favor.) We’ll see how things work out. In the meantime, this note will have to stand for my salute to all of you, my heartfelt gratitude for your having been and continuing to be who you are and for that remarkable webbing and mission that connects us.
The peace of God is yours this day --
Gordon
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Gordon, Your "brief collegium" is a witness in keeping with the manner in which you have lived your whole life, embracing and affirming as ultimately good all that has come your way. In the fabric that is our community the strand that is your unique contribution to the whole does and will continue to glow brightly, without which it wouldn't be our community. Go with God, Randy Sent from my iPad
On Sep 3, 2015, at 11:19 PM, Gordon Harper via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Beloved Colleagues --
Few of us, as the end of life approaches, get the chance to speak directly to anything like our whole community. It appears that I have that opportunity, and I’m taking advantage of it.
Last week, after two months of medical testing to find out what had suddenly landed on me and drained me of my strength and usual energy, Roxana and I got the diagnosis. It’s a rare form of fairly fast moving (typically two months to two years) leukemia, called CMML. There’s little to be done to treat it, especially in someone my age (about to be 79). I'm getting good medical care and have a fine local support community here in Seattle.
First of all, I want you all to know that I am at peace with this, as is Roxana. My life--in good part because of you--has been rich, crazy, wonder-filled and a unique and unrepeatable journey with the Mystery. And no one knows better than you and I how to celebrate both our being here and the completion of our journeys.
I am taking this rare chance to express to all of you how much you’ve meant to me over the years--as the amazing collection of individual nobodies we are that rode out like the Man of La Mancha to throw our beings into the challenge of bending history. More than that, you all contributed your own weird and special gifts, neuroses and idiosyncrasies to the makeup of our corporate life and community, all over the world. Without you, there’d never have been such a community; so thank you, thank you, thank you.
I hope to be able to chat with at least some of you individually or collectively over the time remaining to me, through one of the dizzying array of communication tools at hand today, and give you a little abuse. (What else would you expect from me? And please--do return the favor.) We’ll see how things work out. In the meantime, this note will have to stand for my salute to all of you, my heartfelt gratitude for your having been and continuing to be who you are and for that remarkable webbing and mission that connects us.
The peace of God is yours this day --
Gordon
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Gordon, In the short time that I've known you, I have come to appreciate your long-suffering facilitation skills and well-considered advice. You shine as a beacon in this community. May God grant you the grace to accept what you cannot change and the strength to fight like hell for what you can change. Steve Ediger Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on that sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Dylan Thomas <http://www.poemhunter.com/dylan-thomas/poems/> ᐧ Steve Ediger 773-920-7350 (google voice) 505-426-7088 (mobile) On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Gordon Harper via OE < oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Beloved Colleagues --
Few of us, as the end of life approaches, get the chance to speak directly to anything like our whole community. It appears that I have that opportunity, and I’m taking advantage of it.
Last week, after two months of medical testing to find out what had suddenly landed on me and drained me of my strength and usual energy, Roxana and I got the diagnosis. It’s a rare form of fairly fast moving (typically two months to two years) leukemia, called CMML. There’s little to be done to treat it, especially in someone my age (about to be 79). I'm getting good medical care and have a fine local support community here in Seattle.
First of all, I want you all to know that I am at peace with this, as is Roxana. My life--in good part because of you--has been rich, crazy, wonder-filled and a unique and unrepeatable journey with the Mystery. And no one knows better than you and I how to celebrate both our being here and the completion of our journeys.
I am taking this rare chance to express to all of you how much you’ve meant to me over the years--as the amazing collection of individual nobodies we are that rode out like the Man of La Mancha to throw our beings into the challenge of bending history. More than that, you all contributed your own weird and special gifts, neuroses and idiosyncrasies to the makeup of our corporate life and community, all over the world. Without you, there’d never have been such a community; so thank you, thank you, thank you.
I hope to be able to chat with at least some of you individually or collectively over the time remaining to me, through one of the dizzying array of communication tools at hand today, and give you a little abuse. (What else would you expect from me? And please--do return the favor.) We’ll see how things work out. In the meantime, this note will have to stand for my salute to all of you, my heartfelt gratitude for your having been and continuing to be who you are and for that remarkable webbing and mission that connects us.
The peace of God is yours this day --
Gordon
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Dear Gordon and Roxana, When I saw your email title, I thought to myself you were at the global archive project and were going to give us a pearl of wisdom from our past. That a wonderful rich dialogue would unfold. So I and our community were surprised and saddened to hear of your news. It is news coming to all of us sooner than we might anticipate. I find myself rejoicing in the fact that the community is still here to usher us all into the next assignment to mystery. You have launched us on a heart warming dialogue. I shared your note with Joy Jinks this morning. We both thought you had articulated who we were in history rather profoundly. The wonder of who were had dimmed a little until I read your note. Grace and Peace dear colleagues as you take us through this journey. I look forward to your comments and will try and move from the 'just reading' status. Jan Janet A. Sanders Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 21:19:20 -0700 To: dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net; oe@lists.wedgeblade.net Subject: [Dialogue] A Very Brief Collegium From: dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net Beloved Colleagues -- Few of us, as the end of life approaches, get the chance to speak directly to anything like our whole community. It appears that I have that opportunity, and I’m taking advantage of it. Last week, after two months of medical testing to find out what had suddenly landed on me and drained me of my strength and usual energy, Roxana and I got the diagnosis. It’s a rare form of fairly fast moving (typically two months to two years) leukemia, called CMML. There’s little to be done to treat it, especially in someone my age (about to be 79). I'm getting good medical care and have a fine local support community here in Seattle. First of all, I want you all to know that I am at peace with this, as is Roxana. My life--in good part because of you--has been rich, crazy, wonder-filled and a unique and unrepeatable journey with the Mystery. And no one knows better than you and I how to celebrate both our being here and the completion of our journeys. I am taking this rare chance to express to all of you how much you’ve meant to me over the years--as the amazing collection of individual nobodies we are that rode out like the Man of La Mancha to throw our beings into the challenge of bending history. More than that, you all contributed your own weird and special gifts, neuroses and idiosyncrasies to the makeup of our corporate life and community, all over the world. Without you, there’d never have been such a community; so thank you, thank you, thank you. I hope to be able to chat with at least some of you individually or collectively over the time remaining to me, through one of the dizzying array of communication tools at hand today, and give you a little abuse. (What else would you expect from me? And please--do return the favor.) We’ll see how things work out. In the meantime, this note will have to stand for my salute to all of you, my heartfelt gratitude for your having been and continuing to be who you are and for that remarkable webbing and mission that connects us. The peace of God is yours this day -- Gordon _______________________________________________ Dialogue mailing list Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net
Dear colleagues, When Gordon went to what was our local Netflicks shop here in Taiwan to get a cassette tape to entertain us, he would ask... what kind of video would you like? Invariably someone would say, "comedy" and invariably we would not get a comedy, may be a drama, an action, or I am sure something very entertaining, but not a comedy at all. Always a reality check... and so it goes Gordon and Roxanna... not a comedy, however, it did come as a mystery! What do I remember when I came to Taiwan to find a job and see if we could all live in Taipei...I needed to find a job...and we would be here for three-five years?.... I remember the first week I was in Taipei in 1991, April. Gordon was there and I hear the strange whine and buzz sound in the morning of what I found out was the internet connection. We had that sound in Manila, and KL too, but not so regularly heard each day at the same time marking the day. There was the faint smell of sweet pipe smoke lingering on everything in your office. There was later to be a scale which, when you join weight watchers, helps you figure out how much you can eat, which I still have today. Peter Hu would rise every morning and go to the roof and do his exercises like a military man, even though he was a a former journalist and knew who most all of the people in town were, or could find out and spoke clear English. He ate raw vegetables he cut and placed in a bag in the frig that he ate each morning. There was an English radiocast on ICRT (International Community Radio Transmission?), "Shape the Future" or something, where Gordon's melodious voice could be heard daily with a quote for the day and a reflection on how business and leadership could relate to what was happening in the world and in their lives. There were books written by our famous author in residence, who would often on the street be asked for an autograph in a Chinese translated book, or the Computer Club, or American Chamber of Commerce, ... Larry came to a Global ICA conference in 1990 to Taiwan. It was held at the International Jiantan Youth Hostel across the street from the Grand Hotel and the multitude of morning exercising marshall artists on the mountain near the bridge and river. After that, Larry and Evelyn and Dick and Gail came to Taiwan in 1991... who knew how this set up a climate of new adventures...remember the 20th Anniversary of ICA video you created before you left? Larry says he has a copy on his computer? Must be on backpup. Thank you Gordon and thank you Roxanna. A fleeting memory of things gone by which are still emerging... That summer I got two jobs teaching English at ELSI and another at a local bushiban...then went to TAS and got a job so I could go home for summer and then return in August from USA in 1991. Now I am with ICA again since 2006! We have been in Taiwan for 24 years. Evelyn Kurihara Philbrook Institute of Cultural Affairs: Taiwan -- Facilitator and Social Artist 3Fl, #12, Lane 5, Tien Mu West Road Taipei, Taiwan 11156 Tel:8862-2871-3150 email: joyful52@gmail.com or joyful@icatw.com skype: joyfuleakp Cell: 886926682821
As is my wont, I have painted a mandala and written a haiku which is in the mail to Roxana and Gordon. As, the beauty of community and the love of colleagues who are sharing so profoundly this journey!!! Love to all, Ellen Howie On Sep 4, 2015, at 8:09 PM, Janet Sanders via OE wrote:
Dear Gordon and Roxana,
When I saw your email title, I thought to myself you were at the global archive project and were going to give us a pearl of wisdom from our past. That a wonderful rich dialogue would unfold.
So I and our community were surprised and saddened to hear of your news. It is news coming to all of us sooner than we might anticipate. I find myself rejoicing in the fact that the community is still here to usher us all into the next assignment to mystery.
You have launched us on a heart warming dialogue. I shared your note with Joy Jinks this morning. We both thought you had articulated who we were in history rather profoundly. The wonder of who were had dimmed a little until I read your note.
Grace and Peace dear colleagues as you take us through this journey. I look forward to your comments and will try and move from the 'just reading' status.
Jan
Janet A. Sanders
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 21:19:20 -0700 To: dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net; oe@lists.wedgeblade.net Subject: [Dialogue] A Very Brief Collegium From: dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net
Beloved Colleagues --
Few of us, as the end of life approaches, get the chance to speak directly to anything like our whole community. It appears that I have that opportunity, and I’m taking advantage of it.
Last week, after two months of medical testing to find out what had suddenly landed on me and drained me of my strength and usual energy, Roxana and I got the diagnosis. It’s a rare form of fairly fast moving (typically two months to two years) leukemia, called CMML. There’s little to be done to treat it, especially in someone my age (about to be 79). I'm getting good medical care and have a fine local support community here in Seattle.
First of all, I want you all to know that I am at peace with this, as is Roxana. My life--in good part because of you--has been rich, crazy, wonder-filled and a unique and unrepeatable journey with the Mystery. And no one knows better than you and I how to celebrate both our being here and the completion of our journeys.
I am taking this rare chance to express to all of you how much you’ve meant to me over the years--as the amazing collection of individual nobodies we are that rode out like the Man of La Mancha to throw our beings into the challenge of bending history. More than that, you all contributed your own weird and special gifts, neuroses and idiosyncrasies to the makeup of our corporate life and community, all over the world. Without you, there’d never have been such a community; so thank you, thank you, thank you.
I hope to be able to chat with at least some of you individually or collectively over the time remaining to me, through one of the dizzying array of communication tools at hand today, and give you a little abuse. (What else would you expect from me? And please--do return the favor.) We’ll see how things work out. In the meantime, this note will have to stand for my salute to all of you, my heartfelt gratitude for your having been and continuing to be who you are and for that remarkable webbing and mission that connects us.
The peace of God is yours this day --
Gordon
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So Gordon, I have just finished re-reading your witness, and every one of the responses to date to share with you in this amazing life journey we all share. I had to wait until I had read all the rest because I had not had the connection through all those years that others had with you, and all over the globe it seems. It does occur to me that our first encounter may have been at one or more of those Academies in 1968 to 1970, or one of those summer Research Assemblies in 1970-71. And after that some of those Area meetings in San Francisco, and a few brief encounters through the ToP network. The standout memory comes from 1992 when you and John Oyler facilitated FOOD FOR ALL’s expansion plan with 30 or 40 people from food company executives to nonprofit directors and grassroots volunteers, our Board of Directors and staff, and left us with a plan that we of course had to implement, and long-story-short, eventually led to our merger with the Food Industry Crusade Against Hunger, now called “Making Change” that has raised close to $100 million for anti-hunger and other causes. So you can add that to your list of catalytic facilitative offerings. Linda has had more inter-actions with you through the ToP network and I am sure will be adding her comments to enter the collegium of your life-eventfulness. Meanwhile, I’m not that far behind you. Thanks for allowing us all to share these last few (hopefully) years with you. Peace, Milan P.S. I searched through all my photo archives and this is the only photo I could find of you, from Millenium Connection 2000 in Denver Milan Hamilton aka Mellowmilan 80 North Center Street Redlands, CA 92373-8116 Phone/Fax: (909) 793-4482 E-mail: mellowmilan2@gmail.com Mellow Milan’s Musings Blog: <http://www.mellowmilan.blogspot.com/> www.mellowmilan.blogspot.com Mellow Milan’s Blog2: <http://www.mellowmilansite.wordpress.com/> www.mellowmilansite.wordpress.com From: OE [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Gordon Harper via OE Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2015 9:19 PM To: ICA/OE List Serves <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net>; Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Subject: [Oe List ...] A Very Brief Collegium Beloved Colleagues -- Few of us, as the end of life approaches, get the chance to speak directly to anything like our whole community. It appears that I have that opportunity, and I’m taking advantage of it. Last week, after two months of medical testing to find out what had suddenly landed on me and drained me of my strength and usual energy, Roxana and I got the diagnosis. It’s a rare form of fairly fast moving (typically two months to two years) leukemia, called CMML. There’s little to be done to treat it, especially in someone my age (about to be 79). I'm getting good medical care and have a fine local support community here in Seattle. First of all, I want you all to know that I am at peace with this, as is Roxana. My life--in good part because of you--has been rich, crazy, wonder-filled and a unique and unrepeatable journey with the Mystery. And no one knows better than you and I how to celebrate both our being here and the completion of our journeys. I am taking this rare chance to express to all of you how much you’ve meant to me over the years--as the amazing collection of individual nobodies we are that rode out like the Man of La Mancha to throw our beings into the challenge of bending history. More than that, you all contributed your own weird and special gifts, neuroses and idiosyncrasies to the makeup of our corporate life and community, all over the world. Without you, there’d never have been such a community; so thank you, thank you, thank you. I hope to be able to chat with at least some of you individually or collectively over the time remaining to me, through one of the dizzying array of communication tools at hand today, and give you a little abuse. (What else would you expect from me? And please--do return the favor.) We’ll see how things work out. In the meantime, this note will have to stand for my salute to all of you, my heartfelt gratitude for your having been and continuing to be who you are and for that remarkable webbing and mission that connects us. The peace of God is yours this day -- Gordon
This from John Updike. Certainly fits my sadness. Jim Wiegel Perfection Wasted And another regrettable thing aboutdeath is the ceasing of your own brand ofmagic, which took a whole life to developand market -- the quips, the witticisms, the slant adjusted to a few, those loved onesnearest the lip of the stage, their softfaces blanched in the footlight glow, theirlaughter close to tears, their tears confused with theirdiamond earrings, their warm pooled breath in and outwith your heartbeat, their response and your performancetwinned. The jokes over the phone. Thememories packed in the rapid-access file. Thewhole act. Who will do it again? That's it: noone; imitators and descendants aren't thesame. John Updike 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: Milan Hamilton via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> To: 'Gordon Harper' <gharper1@gmail.com>; ORDER LISTSERVE <oe@wedgeblade.net> Cc: ORDER LISTSERVE <oe@wedgeblade.net> Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 2:22 PM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] A Very Brief Collegium #yiv4770188302 #yiv4770188302 -- _filtered #yiv4770188302 {panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;} _filtered #yiv4770188302 {font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;} _filtered #yiv4770188302 {panose-1:3 15 7 2 3 3 2 2 2 4;}#yiv4770188302 #yiv4770188302 p.yiv4770188302MsoNormal, #yiv4770188302 li.yiv4770188302MsoNormal, #yiv4770188302 div.yiv4770188302MsoNormal {margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;}#yiv4770188302 a:link, #yiv4770188302 span.yiv4770188302MsoHyperlink {color:#0563C1;text-decoration:underline;}#yiv4770188302 a:visited, #yiv4770188302 span.yiv4770188302MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:#954F72;text-decoration:underline;}#yiv4770188302 p {margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12.0pt;}#yiv4770188302 span.yiv4770188302EmailStyle18 {color:#1F497D;}#yiv4770188302 span.yiv4770188302EmailStyle19 {color:windowtext;}#yiv4770188302 .yiv4770188302MsoChpDefault {} _filtered #yiv4770188302 {margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}#yiv4770188302 div.yiv4770188302WordSection1 {}#yiv4770188302 So Gordon, I have just finished re-reading your witness, and every one of the responses to date to share with you in this amazing life journey we all share. I had to wait until I had read all the rest because I had not had the connection through all those years that others had with you, and all over the globe it seems. It does occur to me that our first encounter may have been at one or more of those Academies in 1968 to 1970, or one of those summer Research Assemblies in 1970-71. And after that some of those Area meetings in San Francisco, and a few brief encounters through the ToP network. The standout memory comes from 1992 when you and John Oyler facilitated FOOD FOR ALL’s expansion plan with 30 or 40 people from food company executives to nonprofit directors and grassroots volunteers, our Board of Directors and staff, and left us with a plan that we of course had to implement, and long-story-short, eventually led to our merger with the Food Industry Crusade Against Hunger, now called “Making Change” that has raised close to $100 million for anti-hunger and other causes. So you can add that to your list of catalytic facilitative offerings. Linda has had more inter-actions with you through the ToP network and I am sure will be adding her comments to enter the collegium of your life-eventfulness. Meanwhile, I’m not that far behind you. Thanks for allowing us all to share these last few (hopefully) years with you.Peace, Milan P.S. I searched through all my photo archives and this is the only photo I could find of you, from Millenium Connection 2000 in DenverMilan Hamiltonaka Mellowmilan80 North Center StreetRedlands, CA 92373-8116Phone/Fax: (909) 793-4482E-mail: mellowmilan2@gmail.comMellow Milan’s Musings Blog: www.mellowmilan.blogspot.comMellow Milan’s Blog2: www.mellowmilansite.wordpress.com From: OE [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Gordon Harper via OE Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2015 9:19 PM To: ICA/OE List Serves <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net>; Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Subject: [Oe List ...] A Very Brief Collegium Beloved Colleagues -- Few of us, as the end of life approaches, get the chance to speak directly to anything like our whole community. It appears that I have that opportunity, and I’m taking advantage of it. Last week, after two months of medical testing to find out what had suddenly landed on me and drained me of my strength and usual energy, Roxana and I got the diagnosis. It’s a rare form of fairly fast moving (typically two months to two years) leukemia, called CMML. There’s little to be done to treat it, especially in someone my age (about to be 79). I'm getting good medical care and have a fine local support community here in Seattle. First of all, I want you all to know that I am at peace with this, as is Roxana. My life--in good part because of you--has been rich, crazy, wonder-filled and a unique and unrepeatable journey with the Mystery. And no one knows better than you and I how to celebrate both our being here and the completion of our journeys. I am taking this rare chance to express to all of you how much you’ve meant to me over the years--as the amazing collection of individual nobodies we are that rode out like the Man of La Mancha to throw our beings into the challenge of bending history. More than that, you all contributed your own weird and special gifts, neuroses and idiosyncrasies to the makeup of our corporate life and community, all over the world. Without you, there’d never have been such a community; so thank you, thank you, thank you. I hope to be able to chat with at least some of you individually or collectively over the time remaining to me, through one of the dizzying array of communication tools at hand today, and give you a little abuse. (What else would you expect from me? And please--do return the favor.) We’ll see how things work out. In the meantime, this note will have to stand for my salute to all of you, my heartfelt gratitude for your having been and continuing to be who you are and for that remarkable webbing and mission that connects us. The peace of God is yours this day -- Gordon _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net
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On 10 Sep, 2015, at 19:54 , James Wiegel via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
This from John Updike. Certainly fits my sadness. Jim Wiegel
Perfection Wasted
And another regrettable thing about death is the ceasing of your own brand of magic, which took a whole life to develop and market -- the quips, the witticisms, the slant adjusted to a few, those loved ones nearest the lip of the stage, their soft faces blanched in the footlight glow, their laughter close to tears, their tears confused with their diamond earrings, their warm pooled breath in and out with your heartbeat, their response and your performance twinned. The jokes over the phone. The memories packed in the rapid-access file. The whole act. Who will do it again? That's it: no one; imitators and descendants aren't the same.
John Updike
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From: Milan Hamilton via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>> To: 'Gordon Harper' <gharper1@gmail.com <mailto:gharper1@gmail.com>>; ORDER LISTSERVE <oe@wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe@wedgeblade.net>> Cc: ORDER LISTSERVE <oe@wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe@wedgeblade.net>> Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 2:22 PM Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] A Very Brief Collegium
So Gordon, I have just finished re-reading your witness, and every one of the responses to date to share with you in this amazing life journey we all share. I had to wait until I had read all the rest because I had not had the connection through all those years that others had with you, and all over the globe it seems. It does occur to me that our first encounter may have been at one or more of those Academies in 1968 to 1970, or one of those summer Research Assemblies in 1970-71. And after that some of those Area meetings in San Francisco, and a few brief encounters through the ToP network. The standout memory comes from 1992 when you and John Oyler facilitated FOOD FOR ALL’s expansion plan with 30 or 40 people from food company executives to nonprofit directors and grassroots volunteers, our Board of Directors and staff, and left us with a plan that we of course had to implement, and long-story-short, eventually led to our merger with the Food Industry Crusade Against Hunger, now called “Making Change” that has raised close to $100 million for anti-hunger and other causes. So you can add that to your list of catalytic facilitative offerings.
Linda has had more inter-actions with you through the ToP network and I am sure will be adding her comments to enter the collegium of your life-eventfulness. Meanwhile, I’m not that far behind you. Thanks for allowing us all to share these last few (hopefully) years with you. Peace, Milan
P.S. I searched through all my photo archives and this is the only photo I could find of you, from Millenium Connection 2000 in Denver <Mail Attachment.jpeg> <Mail Attachment.jpeg> Milan Hamilton aka Mellowmilan 80 North Center Street Redlands, CA 92373-8116 Phone/Fax: (909) 793-4482 E-mail: mellowmilan2@gmail.com <mailto:mellowmilan2@gmail.com> Mellow Milan’s Musings Blog: www.mellowmilan.blogspot.com <http://www.mellowmilan.blogspot.com/> Mellow Milan’s Blog2: www.mellowmilansite.wordpress.com <http://www.mellowmilansite.wordpress.com/>
From: OE [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net>] On Behalf Of Gordon Harper via OE Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2015 9:19 PM To: ICA/OE List Serves <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net>>; Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>> Subject: [Oe List ...] A Very Brief Collegium
Beloved Colleagues --
Few of us, as the end of life approaches, get the chance to speak directly to anything like our whole community. It appears that I have that opportunity, and I’m taking advantage of it.
Last week, after two months of medical testing to find out what had suddenly landed on me and drained me of my strength and usual energy, Roxana and I got the diagnosis. It’s a rare form of fairly fast moving (typically two months to two years) leukemia, called CMML. There’s little to be done to treat it, especially in someone my age (about to be 79). I'm getting good medical care and have a fine local support community here in Seattle.
First of all, I want you all to know that I am at peace with this, as is Roxana. My life--in good part because of you--has been rich, crazy, wonder-filled and a unique and unrepeatable journey with the Mystery. And no one knows better than you and I how to celebrate both our being here and the completion of our journeys.
I am taking this rare chance to express to all of you how much you’ve meant to me over the years--as the amazing collection of individual nobodies we are that rode out like the Man of La Mancha to throw our beings into the challenge of bending history. More than that, you all contributed your own weird and special gifts, neuroses and idiosyncrasies to the makeup of our corporate life and community, all over the world. Without you, there’d never have been such a community; so thank you, thank you, thank you.
I hope to be able to chat with at least some of you individually or collectively over the time remaining to me, through one of the dizzying array of communication tools at hand today, and give you a little abuse. (What else would you expect from me? And please--do return the favor.) We’ll see how things work out. In the meantime, this note will have to stand for my salute to all of you, my heartfelt gratitude for your having been and continuing to be who you are and for that remarkable webbing and mission that connects us.
The peace of God is yours this day --
Gordon
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Terran Longacre via OE