[Springboard] {Disarmed} Re: Fwd: [Oe List ...] Salmon: Where's the glue?
Richard Alton
dick_alton at hotmail.com
Thu Jan 3 21:55:39 EST 2008
This is a tough network! First, I was accused of being a racist and now a sexist! I learned my RS-1 at the feet of Kay Lush and Charles Lingo so one could see why I am easily confused.
Dick
Richard H.T. Alton
International Consultants and Associates
'building global bridges'
166 N. Humphrey Ave, Apt, 1N
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T:1.773.344.7172
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Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back
Babe Ruth
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Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 17:36:36 -0500
From: marilyncrocker at juno.com
Subject: Re: [Springboard] {Disarmed} Re: Fwd: [Oe List ...] Salmon: Where's the glue?
Hey you dear "guys",
This gal recalls we said that:
RSI (and all our methods that emerged from that understanding of
TWLI) was branded on our eyelids;
When we were deployed overseas, we needed to be able to teach
RSI in an instant, even as we passed another person, while "swinging
across the jungle on a vine." [I attribute this last image to Slicker];
"Cutting off the right arm" was what might be required in our
time (the 20th C) to signify being the Church; and
When all was finally at stake, we would, collectively, from every
point across the globe, move backwards toward Chicago, brandishing our
"swords," to protect our sacred place of Origin.
So, the notch in the ear and the toe tag (for one who has always worn ear
baubles of some kind, and painted her toes) are not as
memorable. But any common glue is good glue, I say.
Peace and affection,
Marilyn
Marilyn R. Crocker, Ed.D
Crocker & Associates, Inc.
123
Sanborn Road
West Newfield, ME 04095
(207) 793-3711
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 09:18:06 -0600 Richard Alton <dick_alton at hotmail.com>
writes:
Wow, and I thought it was the notch in the ear!
Can you return a notch?
Dick
Richard H.T. Alton International
Consultants and Associates 'building global bridges' 166 N. Humphrey Ave, Apt,
1N Oak Park, IL 60302 T:1.773.344.7172 richard.alton at gmail.com Don't let the
fear of striking out hold you back Babe Ruth
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
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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)
401 North Beverly Way
Tolleson, Arizona
85353-2401
+1 623-936-8671
+1 623-363-3277
jfwiegel at yahoo.com
www.partnersinparticipation.com
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here, but what about yesterday? Where is it now? It will be gone to us .
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