[Dialogue] [ SPAM ] Re: [Oe List ...] Happy Thanksgiving

Tue Nov 23 00:12:17 CST 2010

Dear Sandra, Marilyn, Colleen et al

Thanksgiving was a celebration I missed for many years, it did not 
really fit into our schedule during the replication scheme although I do 
remember Charles Lingo and Linda Alton catalyzing a thanksgiving 
celebration just as we were leaving Kenya for the Philippines.  I 
remember celebrating with John and Ann Epps, Krishnan, Philip and Edna 
in Malaysia.

Then our kids Lloyd and Lela started attending the American School in 
Taipei and Thanksgiving was not only taught it was a holiday.  So we 
started small invited Dick & Gail West, Gordon Harper, Peter Hu and Jo 
Tai to our apartment in 1991.

Eventually it became our annual celebratory event as ICA, we invite 
colleagues and clients from the diverse communities we work with to 
gather and give thanks.  We usually we end up with 50 or so in the space 
diverse in culture and connection to ICA it is a great time of new 
connections.  Evelyn and I usually make Turkeys and fixings, curry and 
stuffing etc.

This year we will be hosting the pot luck at ICA so anyone who can is 
welcome to come to Taipei, because scheduling difficulties we have 
postponed it to Dec 19, 1:00 to 4:00 in the afternoon.  All are welcome.

With respect, Larry

On 11/23/2010 11:23, marilyncrocker at juno.com wrote:
> Dear Sandra,
> What a wonderful avalanche of Thanksgiving greetings to all of us 
> _you_ have occasioned across the globe.  I imagine they will continue 
> for the next few days, and what a blessing!  Thank you!!
> May I add our small voices to the chorus, and express our appreciation 
> for the vignettes folks like Isobel have added under the rubric "I 
> remember when....."  Ours is the ritual practiced in US Religious 
> Houses for many years of a procession with song to the feast, and the 
> reading and conversation about the /Mayflower Compact/.  And then 
> there was the fiercely promoted annual turkey stuffing contest in the 
> NYRH between Melinda Howell and Carlos Ollison (both versions of which 
> were terrific), and the rush Thanksgiving morning to 7th Avenue to get 
> curbside seats for the amazing Macy's Parade. And then the 
> Thanksgiving we spent in Kawangware following the Consult, and on and on.
> Yesterday afternoon Joe and I attended an ecumenical Thanksgiving 
> service in Sanford, ME (the largest "town" in Maine -- which isn't 
> saying very big, except when compared to our little village of 
> 2,000.)  It was a wonderful gathering of seven different worshipping 
> communities, each of which had participated together in a profound 5 
> week series offered by Southern Maine Hospice.  The pastor in 
> residence at our nearby Gosnell Hospice House offered the Thanksgiving 
> Reflections during the worship.  I was deeply struck by his image of 
> "gratitude as a spiritual practice", not something forced but 
> spontaneous; and a pathway to God/Mystery.
> Sandra, I immediately thought of you when I heard Larry's words.  For 
> me, each of your email communications to us have clearly been 
> spoken out of spontaneous gratitude, no matter how large your next 
> mountain of treatment loomed.  This is, indeed, an awesome and 
> mysterious place from which you speak, and I believe demonstrates what 
> Larry was pointing to in the image of "gratitude as a spiritual practice."
> With love and deep thanks for you, Bob, Lyn and your extended family, 
> and for our extended OE/ICA family across the world,
> Happy Thanksgiving!!
> Grace and peace,
> Marilyn and Joe
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:09:18 -0500 Sandra/Bob True <icatrue at igc.org 
> <mailto:icatrue at igc.org>> writes:
> > Dear Friends and Colleagues,
> >
> > In the season if gratefulness, I am deeply grateful for all of you
> > on these lists. You are my community, I've experienced your care and
> > love.
> > I lift a glass full of gratitude to you all!
> >
> >
> > Hugs
> > Sandra
> >
> >
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