[Dialogue] [Oe List ...] A song to add to George's collegium

[George Packard]

Thank you all from around the world who have sent greetings, and all you who
have commented on Holcombe's Image. Our house too has been filled with the
spirit of last nights victory -- or should we be saying massive paradigm
shift that is occurring in the world order over the last months and years.
We got a great early morning e-mail greeting from Elena Harper Barnes which
echoes Diane's and others comments of a new generation being prepared by
these events: 

"I was thinking -proudly!- of you when we saw that Obama had won New Mexico.
All that hard work and time paid off, and "a new day is dawning." It is
truly exciting. I voted yesterday and pulled Tania from school so that she
could accompany me. I deemed it an important-enough event to have her view
the process and help me fill out my ballot. She and Reuben stayed up until
9:30 PM to hear the announcement of the projected presidential results, and
were so very happy to hear Obama was the one elected.

Her greeting ended with a quote from the first four lines of the song below,
which suggests that the meditative council of the singing years lives on and
that recent discussion on the song book was not irrelevant. I just printed
out the whole (thanks Larry Philbrook for sending your file) so we could
express our spirit through singing it. Elise has sent me back to print out
others. But check out the words to this; then ask what other songs come to
mind that anticipated events such as this in our Hope that we could use to
hold this moment as significant in our memories.
George

I KNOW WHY	
	Tune: You're Just in Love
	I see wonder coming everywhere.
	This strange presence seems to fill the air.	
	New communities emerge that care.	
	I wonder why? I wonder why?	
	Old worlds passing quickly out of sight.	
	New is dawning with its shocking light.	
	Old despair is finally in the past
	Our destiny recast.	
	I now know why!	
	
The whole world is arisin'.	
	It is no time for cryin'.
	The old way's death is but new birth.	
	Beyond all expectations,	
	The new aeon's awaitin'	
	Awake now! See the common earth.	
	Put the globe on your shoulders.	
	You will find you'll be bolder
	And you'll live with the final One.	
	You will see life's deep surprise
	Burst before your very eyes.
	For you'll see the Kingdom's come!
	
Repeat, singing  verses simultaneously. 



-----Original Message-----
From: oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf
Of Charles or Doris Hahn
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 10:44 AM
To: Dialogue; OE
Subject: [Oe List ...] A word to add to George's collegium

Thank you to everyone who helped bring about this new day. Taking part in
Indiana's turning Blue is frosting on the cake for us. I must say I thought
McCain's speech last night was stellar--not as thrilling as Obama's, but
really fine.

Special thanks to colleagues from around the world who have posted notes
this morning. We are humbled and grateful. Most mornings I walk with a woman
from South Africa (she's been here about 15 years) in our neighborhood. This
morning she came to her door and greeted me with, "You did it"!!!! It was an
energizing way to start the day

Monday night I found myself trying to put together "I can see a new day" in
my memory. It suddenly became a mantra in my head. I haven't sorted out many
of the words yet, but the song is surely in my being.

Grace and Peace, (what a profound secular greeting--or closing, as the case
may be)

Doris Hahn

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