[Dialogue] Thoughts on ICA-USA Future

[W. J.]

Thanks for your paper, Jack. It bears all the telltale marks of ICA/EI/OE 
collegiality and our corporate heritage. 
As I'm counting down the last 5 days B4 clicking over 70,000 miles on the 
old-ometer, and creaking on creaking on, as they say, I find myself missing the 
fantastic dynamism that was manifested in our Order.
What it would take to breathe life into your program is reconstituting some form 
of the Order dynamic -- with some younger, energetic colleagues. Like 
reconstituting frozen orange juice concentrate, it would take a lot of watering 
and stirring the pot to bring back to life our 'frozen' human assets in 
palatable form.
You call for 'priorship.' We can't "go back" to the way it was (at some 
idealized point in time) but we CAN go forward. That might mean something like 
filling up the Kemper Building once again with an intentional transformational 
leadership force. I might even go for that in my old age, if we could kind of 
mix that dynamic with something like an Order Rest Home! (You know, with 
nap-time included as necessary! Oh yeah, and maybe less round-the-clock 
enablement for us wheezers.)
An authentically transgenerational community that offered amazing 
learning/living opportunities for college students combined with access to a 
bunch of us old graybeards (and gray-haired women too) might just surprise and 
energize us all.
Just a thought B4 I put the 70 candles on the cake.
Marshall




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From: Jack Gilles <icabombay at igc.org>
To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>; Colleague Dialogue 
<dialogue at wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Sun, September 12, 2010 11:09:51 AM
Subject: [Dialogue] Thoughts on ICA-USA Future


Dear Colleagues,

Attached is a document on my thoughts regarding the future of the ICA-USA now 
that it has a Board of historically knowledgeable colleagues and a new Director 
in Terry Bergdall.  I'm not sure this really needs to go to both list-serves, 
but I'm doing so.  I'll let Terry and the Board decide if and how they would 
like to structure dialogue on this topic.

Peace,

Jack
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