[Dialogue] Now Showing on Your Local Repository: the May Report

[RICHARD HOWIE]

Dear Gordon et al,
THANK YOU for all this fine work.
I attempted to 'listen' to Joe's lecture, but no sound  
transpired....is there more that I need to do other than what you  
instructed?
Grace and Peace,
Ellen
On May 27, 2009, at 12:20 AM, Gordon Harper wrote:

> (I warned you there'd be another message . . .  This one is about  
> what's new with the Repository.)
>
> Warning: This is the first of a series of monthly updates.  Our  
> Repository team thinks that perhaps we may have been just a bit too  
> laid back recently, that like some of our friends in the US  
> financial sector, we may have put slightly too much faith in the  
> Invisible Hand of the Market.  So, starting with this note, one of  
> us will be assuming the role of town crier or newsboy or something  
> like that, to let you know about some of the new material that has  
> found its way, possibly undetected by your sensors, into the inky  
> shadows of the Repository during the previous thirty days.  There  
> are now five of us shouldering this burden; we'll see how it goes.
>
> To get right to some highlights for this month:
>
> You've already had a heads up on one of our major projects: making  
> the Golden Pathways available to us all.  As you might guess, this  
> wasn't a simple matter of just plopping the contents of the CD up  
> there.  There are lots of categories, subcategories and sub-sub- 
> subcategories on that CD, along with a variety of file formats.   
> Tim spent several nights on this, while the rest of us checked out  
> and reported back which pathways were now working and which still  
> weren't.  We think they're all working now.  We all now have access  
> to a wonderful compendium of our corporate wisdom.
>
> If you haven't already bookmarked the link, here it is again:
> http://www.wedgeblade.net/gold_path/gold.htm
>
> Equally exciting--and brand new--is a book that many of us have  
> been waiting for and hoping to see for several years now.  George  
> West, with editorial help from Karen Snyder and Ken Gilbert, has  
> completed his book on our foundational understanding of community  
> development.  He's generously given us permission to publish it on  
> the Repository.  This is from the opening of Creating Community:
>
> This book is dedicated to the two thousand souls who participated  
> in the research and demonstration of community development in 24  
> communities one in each of the 24 time zones across the globe.  
> Sponsored by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, the work began in  
> Chicago in 1965 and continues today in various countries. The book  
> is a distillation of wisdom gleaned from their work and reflection.
> The reflections in this book are what I wish I had had in 1965 when  
> I walked into the west side, inner city of Chicago for my first  
> experience in an intentional effort to create community. I hope  
> that those on the journey of creating community will find the  
> reflections helpful, if not as a guide, then as something to bounce  
> against to deepen their own insights and intuitions. We began with  
> the conviction that development had to be bottom up, that all the  
> people must be involved , that all the problems had to be  
> addressed, and that whatever operating images blocked the self  
> esteem of the individuals had to be overcome. These were great  
> principles; however a somewhat larger context would have been  
> helpful, hence this book.
>
> This is the first book the Repository team has ever published, and  
> we feel very honored.  ICA International is passing the word on to  
> all its national member ICAs, many of whom are deeply engaged in  
> community development today.  You can scan George's Table of  
> Contents and download your personal copy here (sorry, you have to  
> go to Litibu to have your copy autographed):
>
> http://twiki.wedgeblade.net/bin/view.cgi/Main/CreatingCom
>
> Len, with help from Jack Gillis, has added a page to our Completed  
> Lives for David McCleskey.  A number of you shared memories and  
> stories on these listservs as David approached the end of his life  
> and may want to add some of those to the page.  (We also need a  
> good photo.)
>
> http://twiki.wedgeblade.net/bin/view.cgi/Main/DavidMcCleskey2
>
> To conclude this update, a small treat.  At one of the Springboard  
> gatherings, George Walters shared some old recordings of Joe made  
> while he was still at the Faith and Life Community and teaching in  
> Texas.  This audio clip is from the end of a class he is concluding  
> on Kierkegaard.  It was obviously recorded on an open reel deck  
> (remember them?).  We had to work a bit to clean up the sound, but  
> I think you'll not have any trouble following it.  I've called it,  
> "JWM: Our Crutches and the Word."
>
> http://twiki.wedgeblade.net/bin/view.cgi/Main/JoeWord
>
> So endeth the May update.  (You can see why I didn't try to combine  
> it with my previous message.)   Now get out there, and share some  
> of your own treasures; you know what they are!
>
> This is probably obvious, but any of you who'd like to work on the  
> Repository and think you could put up with us would be most  
> welcome.  We do almost everything as a virtual team (I don't  
> believe that Tim, Len and I have actually ever sat down around the  
> same table in real time and space to work on it), using email,  
> Skype, Google Docs and the like.  Shoot one of us a note --
>
> Gordon
>
>
>
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