Ah, jeez, Gordon, I was going to get some work done today, too . . .
Jim
This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease . . . you, and your young compatriots everywhere, have had thrust upon you a greater burden of responsibility than any generation that has ever lived. Robert F. Kennedy
Here is my quick listSo--what for you are some elements or components of our legacy that you hope we can in some way share or pass on to future generations?1. Tips on how "domestic partners" can flex, bend, be global, manage a household, be gracious, host people, manage and love the creative tension and everything that comes with it . . .2. The notion of "mission", the "sensitive and responsive part", "social pioneer" "representational responsibility" has certainly become part of the everyday lexicon of organizations, communities and the lives of people and groups. Every organization has a mission these days. Can't help but think all those Church lectures and Niebuhr seminars contributed. 3. Walk upon the planet, all those places. David Wood, when he retired from the Board, said (something like), "For years people told us we should get out into the real world, and, when we did, we found a world much bigger, and filled with things that
the "real world" was hardly aware of. It is hard to find a place to go where there are not traces . . . I was talking with a woman this morning who worked 10 years in Zimbabwe "doing (some of ) what we do" and never even encountered the ICA there, got a google alert yesterday about the impact of the consult method / lens / strategic planning on the formation of universities in the former soviet union . . .4. Awakening, giving a nudge and support to sensitive and engaged global leadership in several areas. The book from the Mathews legacy event in Washington, DC is replete with testimony from church leaders. Though I do not have documentation, I believe the same is true out of the Global Women's Forum work re: women's leadership around the world, and out of LENS treks re: leadership in corporations and organizational leadership as well.5. The capacity for collapse and rebirth. Certainly, the old collective story (Christian Faith and
Life Community -- Bam!, move to Evanston -- Bam!, local church experiment -- Bam!, replication -- Bam! -- ICA USA and ICA International are replaying this great pattern just now), then there are the stories of our personal lives and those we have worked with, and our families -- life and death and life and death and life and death and . . .
I have to finish unloading the dishwasher . . . and now I want to read the list below.
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--- On Tue, 12/7/10, Gordon Harper <top-nw at clear.net> wrote:
From: Gordon Harper <top-nw at clear.net>
Subject: [Dialogue] The Legacy of our Community
To: "Colleague Dialogue" <dialogue at wedgeblade.net>, "Order Ecumenical Community" <oe at wedgeblade.net>
Date: Tuesday, December 7, 2010, 12:50 AM
Colleagues --
We
seem currently to be engaged
in a number of conversations about passing on the legacy of
our community. Some of us participated in one of these this
past July, with faculty members and students at Oklahoma
City University. We met to explore working together on
developing a curriculum for future social change agents, the
OIKOS Project.
It
raised again the question of just what we mean when we talk
about sharing our legacy. We know that it includes but is
far more than the treasures in those file cabinets. How do
we help the OIKOS folks to get a
handle on it? We also know that others
down the road who study and research the social, political
and spiritual movements of the second half of the 20th
century will come to their own conclusions about what our
legacy was or might be at a particular moment in future time.
The question for us is whether we'd like a shot at helping
to shape those conclusions.
This
is an opportunity for those of us who are still more or less
alive and kicking to point to some aspects of who we are,
who we've been or what we've done that we think should not
be overlooked in any discussion of our legacy. We're
launching this conversation on the Dialogue and OE
listservs, since that's where most of us most regularly
connect to one another. Len Hockley and I then intend to
transfer materials generated here to the Repository website,
so we can continue to have access to them over time.
This
past week, Roxana and I hosted a small dinner gathering here
in Seattle that consisted of Dorothea Jewell, Carol Crow,
Nancy Lanphear, Lee and Leah Early and ourselves. In the
course of it, I cajoled them into being the guinea pigs for
this endeavor. We took a couple minutes to write down our
individual brainstorms, then shared them. What follows is
what we came up with in those two minutes. We didn't try to
evaluate or refine our ideas; it was a brainstorm! What we
wanted was whatever popped up in our consciousness at the
moment, as the things we felt to be important or valuable in
our legacy. (The final item was contributed by Mark Phillips
at Saturday's gathering to celebrate the Wiltsee's 50th
wedding anniversary.)
What
you'll see at this point is our raw brainstorm. It's all
over the place--unorganized, ungestalted, overlapping,
apples and oranges and hopelessly incomplete. (Clearly,
something you need to be part of--please jump in!) You can
easily reply right here and send your ideas out to the rest
of us. Or you can do it on the Repository web page.
As
our list of things expands, we'll likely get into some great
conversations about what these all too brief (and to other
people, I fear, largely still incomprehensible) words and
phrases actually point to. This is only a starting point.
Welcome to
the Legacy Conversation --
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So--what for you are some elements or components of our
legacy that you hope we can in some way share or pass on to
future generations?
[And
now, the sneaky part. I'm hoping that you will take a
minute--right now--to put your mind to this, pick up
your pen and write down your own personal list of five
or ten critical things in that legacy that come to your
mind. Then continue to scroll down the page to see the
ones a few of us thought of last Friday and Saturday.
Finally, share your list with the rest of us. You can
skip this step, but it would be great if you'd do it and
see what you come up with before getting distracted by
other people's ideas. Up to you, of
course --]
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analysis / addressing the root causes
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local community development
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formation process
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stories, songs and symbols
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The Way Life Is
Comprehensiveness:
history long and world wide
Depth dialogue
RS-I /
existential, life questions
Intentional
community
The rational
and the intuitive
Mapping the
spirit interior
Stance that
life is good
Social Process
dynamics
Life as
mission, work as vocation
The secular
religious order
Starting from
a shared vision
5th City
Principles
ToP facilitation
methods
The Global
Servant Force
Curriculum
building process
Art-Form
Method
Solitary and
corporate practices (rood screen, canonical hours, the
Odyssey)
Contentless
methods
Story is key
Team
accountability and absolution
Transrational
thinking
Singing that
rehearses the life understanding
Use of decor
The 4 x 4
lecture building method
To see
the page we've set up on the Repository, which is
essentially the same as what's in this note, click on:
http://wiki.wedgeblade.net/bin/view/Main/BrainStorm
Looking forward to
hearing from you. Let's see where this goes --
Gordon
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