[Dialogue] A Little New Year's Gift

[James Wiegel]

It was great to see the picture of Ralph McKenzie!!
 Jim 


[Pete Seeger] talks about how important it is to him to get an audience singing along. "I guess it’s kind of a religion with me. Participation: that’s what’s going to save the human race." -- Pete Seeger in The Power of Song


Jim Wiegel
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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From: "gharper1 at mindspring.com" <gharper1 at mindspring.com>
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Sent: Sat, January 2, 2010 5:56:37 PM
Subject: [Dialogue] A Little New Year's Gift

It's been called to my attention that I scanted the Dialogue list in sending this message out only to the OE crowd.  Repenting, I make amends.  Sorry if that means some of you get it twice . . . .

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A Warm New Year's Greeting to Everyone --

Roxana and I are privileged to be celebrating the event this year with the community of Order colleagues here in Litibu, Mexico. 

In marking our 50th Anniversary this past year, we put together a slide show for our kids of selected scenes along the way. In order to do this, I quite insanely decided that I should review all the snapshots and slides tucked away in what turned out to be an incredible number of boxes and albums in our closets. In doing so, I inadvertently discovered a treasure that I didn't know existed and that I'd like to share with you.

As I think back over the decade from the mid-sixties to the mid-seventies, I can recall very little picture taking inside either Base or Kemper or our religous houses. (Let me know if I'm wrong, and you have such.) We faithfully documented at least some aspects of our work in other ways, but capturing moments or events of our daily life with a camera was simply not part of our culture. We weren't about calling attention to ourselves, and we wanted the world's attention to be focused on what others accomplished. We were to be the invisible catalysts in the mix. 

To have gone about snapping pictures of our work in the centrums or during Collegia would have seemed quite frivolous, unmissional, perhaps even suspicious. I can only savor the image of what our responses (and especially Joe's) would have been had I, for example, ever stepped out of place during Daily Office to take a picture of it--even if I didn't ask everyone to smile!

So, if some of our memories of our common life may have dimmed over the years, or we've even begun to wonder if perhaps some of it was a dream, I offer you the gift of four moments in time, in color and with many of us perfectly recognizable. They took my breath away when I discovered them. I hope you have a similar experience as we start this new year. 

Here they are, on the Repository --

http://twiki.wedgeblade.net/bin/view.cgi/Main/InYr1976HumanDevelopmentProjects

Gordon


      
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