[Springboard] Salmon {Disarmed} Re: Fwd: [Oe List ...]Salmon:Where's the glue?

Jack Gilles icabombay at igc.org
Thu Jan 3 13:12:02 EST 2008


How about "new I Cons".

Jack
On Jan 3, 2008, at 11:57 AM, David Walters wrote:

> Mayne Gordon should create a new section in the Repoitory for such
> images.
> Can't think of an appropiate title.
> David
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> From: wsalmon at cox.net
> To: springboard at wedgeblade.net
> Subject: [Springboard] Salmon {Disarmed} Re: Fwd: [Oe List
> ...]Salmon:Where's	the glue?
> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 11:23:53 -0600
>
>> Colleagues:
>>   Shucks! I was planning of a Smiley Face on the end of my spine
>> with the words, "The Last Laugh" so that when
>> the KU Med students turned me over I'd get the last laugh.
>> Oh, well, I plan on making an ash of myself anyway.
>>   Now, I've got to change plans, unless we decide that a "notch in
>> the butt" is more appropriate. However, I think I've already got one
>> of those. I'll have Beverly check.
>>   As the Order, we've never been a spine-less bunch. Bill Salmon
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Richard Alton
>> To: Springboard Dialogue
>> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 9:18 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Springboard] {Disarmed} Re: Fwd: [Oe List ...]
>> Salmon:Where's the glue?
>>
>>
>> Wow, and I thought it was the notch in the ear! Can you return a
>> notch?
>> Dick
>>
>>
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>>   From: icabombay at igc.org
>>   To: gharper1 at mindspring.com; springboard at wedgeblade.net
>>   Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 19:50:53 -0600
>>   Subject: Re: [Springboard] {Disarmed} Re: Fwd: [Oe List ...]
>> Salmon: Where's the glue?
>>
>>   It's the tag on the toe, the tag on the toe, just look!
>>
>>
>>   Jack
>>
>>   On Jan 2, 2008, at 7:48 PM, gharper1 at mindspring.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>     Damn--Afraid I Misunderstood!
>>
>>     I was so sure we said on the underside of our eyelids!  At any
>> rate, that's where I had mine done.
>>
>>     Can you return a tattoo?  Or exchange it?
>>
>>     Gordon
>>
>>
>>
>>       -----Original Message-----
>>       From: James Wiegel
>>       Sent: Jan 2, 2008 7:38 PM
>>       To: Springboard Dialogue , Bill Salmon
>>       Subject: [Springboard] Fwd: [Oe List ...] Salmon: Where's the
>> glue?
>>
>>
>>       Bill, thanks for sending the story.  It is great.  Were the
>> questions helpful?
>>
>>       For those of you who have not yet sent their stories, the
>> link is:
>>
>>
>> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=JIzLYa9COq5YFf_2fQyUpCHw_3d_3d
>>
>>       On your question about glue, Bill -- someone sent out an
>> email on this . . . and I lost it . . .
>>
>>       Gordon, Jack,
>>
>>       Do you have the email with the picture of the tattoo of the
>> earthrise we are all engraving at the base of our spines??  Bill (see
>> below) did not see that one.  I hurt my back over the holidays and
>> cannot twist around to take a close enough picture of mine to pass
>> the censors or post on my personal page.
>>
>>       Wiegel (further comments below, way below)
>>
>>       Bill Salmon <wsalmon at cox.net> wrote:
>>         From: "Bill Salmon" <wsalmon at cox.net>
>>         To: "Ecumenical Order" <oe at wedgeblade.net>
>>         Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:10:53 -0600
>>         Subject: [Oe List ...] Salmon: Where's the glue?
>>
>>
>>         Colleagues:
>>             Like most of you I'm frequently awakened to discover
>> I've been thinking about the material out of Junaluska, and there
>> seems to be something missing. So I share this reflection with you
>> and, perhaps, you can set my mind at rest.
>>             Rev. Joe Buckles (from Kansas) was responsible for my
>> desire to join the Order. One day I visited with Joe in Chicago when
>> everything was run out of our facilities at 5th City. He greeted me
>> warmly and asked what I was doing now. I launched into my best
>> presentation about establishing the Lake Ministries in the State of
>> Kansas, and how deeply involved I was in recreational ministries.
>>             Joe looked at me and replied, "Um-m, too bad your work
>> is so reduced. The world needs your spiritual energy rather than just
>> the state of Kansas." I laughed off his spiritual dart, but the truth
>> was too clear to be ignored. Shortly after that both Beverly and I
>> were on our way to the Ordered Life.
>>             What was it that held us together? As I remember, one
>> thing was the critique that we were Nothings in history because we
>> made paramount The Great Awakening to live the humane life by
>> creating structures for the Human Factor in Human Development. The
>> point being, we became the nothings so that our secular-religious
>> Christ could be everything.
>>             We lived on behalf of those unable to, unwilling to, or
>> in denial about, living the Awakened Life against the day when all
>> the earth would live the awakened life  together.
>>             For this purpose we used the traditions of the
>> Christian Church as the theological glue to hold us as one. This was
>> grounded in the Daily Office and the Sunday evening Common Meal.
>>             Did anything like this get raised at Junaluska?
>>             Maybe I've been reading too much of "Mother Teresa:
>> Come Be My Light." Here is the living embodiment of Transparent Doing
>> done in the midnight of her soul that experienced the entire absence
>> of faith. She stood as the little Dutch Girl with her finger in the
>> dyke holding back the destructive waters of social degradation
>> against the day the Missionaries of Charity would have the structures
>> in place to do what history needed them to do.
>>              Maybe this is what our Order is experiencing since
>> 1988? Certainly, this has been a dark night of our corporate soul,
>> but I've lost sight of the transparent awakening event the world is
>> waiting for.
>>             The lesson I keep coming back to is the glue that held
>> her together, and that of her sisters/brothers, and that kept her
>> work going was the Eucharist. If, and when, the Order again finds its
>> voice, what will be the Eucharist that sustains it?
>>             Enlightenment please!
>>             Bill Salmon
>>
>>         Jim Wiegel here.  This is a good question.  I have not read
>> Mother Teresa's book.  Bill Bailey sent me a CD of their advent
>> service and that was interesting, and I found an old book that had
>> Chardin's Mass on the World in it, and that was even more interesting
>> in this regard.
>>
>>         I think we have not gotten further than to suggest putting
>> personal pages on the repository web site as a sign that you
>> acknowledge the declaration that was drafted. (That is, in addition
>> to the tattoo)
>>
>>
>>
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>>       www.partnersinparticipation.com
>>
>>       Will tomorrow be here soon? ... of course it will. Not once
>> has tomorrow not been here, but what about yesterday? Where is it
>> now? It will be gone to us . . . like today will be long gone ...
>> When tomorrow comes around. -- Dodge Chatto 1975
>>
>>
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