[Dialogue] Do good as you gather

[Sunny Walker]

And might I make a change to Yogi's quote: You've got to be very careful if
you don't know where you're going, because you might get there. (point being
that God only knows where that is - and if SHE's in charge, it is likely to
be that place you've been avoiding for some time now).

 

Sunny Walker

Senior Facilitator

Council of Energy Resource Tribes

303-282-7576 xtn. 12; cell: 303-587-3017

FAX: 303-282-7574

695 S. Colorado Blvd.

Denver, CO 80246

 

CERT MISSION

To support member Tribes as they develop their

management capabilities and use their energy resources

as the foundation for building stable,

balanced self-governed economies, according to each Tribe's vision and
priorities.

 

 

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From: dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net
[mailto:dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of W. J.
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 6:02 AM
To: Colleague Dialogue
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Do good as you gather

 

I found another quote from that great philosopher Yogi Berra:

 

"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because
you might not get there."

Marshall


James Wiegel <jfwiegel at yahoo.com> wrote:

 To all those gathering in Techny to consider the future of the Institute of
Cultural Affairs, its legacy and mission

 

I found this quote in a book I bought for a quarter at a Baptist Youth
rummage sale in Nova Scotia.

 

"Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms
we need --  not as a call to battle, though embattled we are -- but a call
to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out,
"rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation" -- a struggle against the common
enemies of man:  tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself."  John F. Kennedy
inaugural address 1/20/1961.

 

I, for one, am standing on tiptoe to see what you all come up with this
weekend as ICA USA's next response, next right answer, and to see what new
generations will step forward to provide leadership in the coming decades of
work.  Hundreds, if not thousands, of others are also watching.

 

Do good.  Keep in touch.  Tell some stories and read some poems.  Tears are
good -- both of grief and joy.  And keep in mind this is serious stuff.

 

Jim Wiegel

 

"Unhappy country, what wings you have! . . .

Weep (it is frequent in human affairs), weep for the terribel magnificence
of the means, 

The ridiculous incompetence of the reasons, the bloody and shabby

Pathos of the result."

Robinson Jeffers

 

But in the midst of this trend toward a less primitive conception of
ourselves and our world, we have somehow, without anyone really intending
it, stumbled into a military confrontation where we have come to feel that
our honor is at stake.  We have in a moment of uncertainty been tempted to
rely on our overwhelming physical power rather than our intelligence, and we
have, in part, succumbed to this temptation.  Bewildered and unnerved when
our terrible power fails to bring immediate success, we are at the edge of a
chasm the depth of which no man knows."  Robert Bellah

 

"When a nation is very powerful but lacking in self-confidence, it is likely
to behave in a manner that is dangerous both to itself and to others.

Gradually but unmistakeably, America is succombing to that arrogance of
power which has afflicted, weakened and in some cases destroyed great
nations in the past.

If the war goes on and expands, if that fatal process continues to
accelerate until America becomes what it is not now and never has been, a
seeker after unlimited power and empire, then Vietnam will have had a mighty
and tragic fallout indeed.

I do not believe that will happen.  I am very apprehensive but I will remain
hopeful, and even confident, that America, with its humane and democratic
traditions, will find the wisdom to match its power."

J. William Fulbright.

 

 



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