[Dialogue] 44 years ago today ...

Tue Apr 10 15:47:56 EDT 2012

Wow.  Has it been 44 years??  Seems like just 44 hours ago . . . ;)
Shifting this conversation to the future, anyone have wisdom on gallstones?

UNFOLDING

If there is no spirit unfolding itself in history,

No gradual growth of consciousness

Beneath the land grabs and forced migrations,

The bought elections, the betrayal of trust

By party faction in the name of progress—

What about spirit in the personal realm

Unfolding slowly inside us, so slowly

That our best days seem like a holding action?

Seasons repeat themselves, but the tree

Shading the yard keeps growing.

Don’t be chagrined that the sadness you felt

This evening beside the bed of a friend

Who’s growing weaker wasn’t more profound

Than the sadness of yesterday, that you still

Can’t imagine a fraction of what he’s feeling

As the world he loves slips from his grasp.

No progress from your perspective,

But who’s to say what you might notice

If the scroll of the last few months were unrolled

On the table before you, how clear it might be

That your understanding of all you’re losing

In losing him has been slowly deepening?

Another day, you say to yourself, at dusk

As you climb your porch steps, which you notice

Could use some scraping and painting this weekend,

A fresh coat that with luck will last a year.

--Carl Dennis

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--- On Sat, 4/7/12, Bill Schlesinger <pvida at whc.net> wrote:

From: Bill Schlesinger <pvida at whc.net>
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] 44 years ago today ...
To: "'Colleague Dialogue'" <dialogue at wedgeblade.net>
Date: Saturday, April 7, 2012, 7:14 PM

We had calls coming in (I was on
switchboard for awhile) from Boston, New York, etc.  “Are you burned
out?” “No, we’re still here.”  One call was to
announce that they would ‘take responsibility for being the new Chicago.’ 
Thankfully, it wasn’t necessary at the time.   

There were a lot of ashes in the air –
not just from our building.  It almost started again when a National Guard
unit (they were the ones with the automatic weapons) fired a tear gas blast
from a large device on the back of a jeep.  But it didn’t.   

Bill Schlesinger 

Project Vida 

3607 Rivera Avenue 

El Paso, TX 79905 

(915) 533-7057 x 207 

(915) 533-7158 FAX 

pvida at whc.net 

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From: dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net
[mailto:dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On
Behalf Of Wilson Priscilla

Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2012
12:34 PM

To: Colleague Dialogue

Subject: Re: [Dialogue] 44 years
ago today ... 

I often wondered when and why Michael Borge left. He was on the Board
at the time. 

One of our best stories...Rod called the west side about something...I
think he and Len Dresslar were getting ready to deliver something to the west
side. Anyway, when he called who ever answered the switch board said, "I
can give you that number, let me blow the ashes off this list first." 

Priscilla 

On Apr 7, 2012, at 1:18 PM, W. J. wrote: 

Sometimes our legalism needs to get radically called into question by the
intrusion of divine activity (which is not at all the same as any human
activity). 

Yes, we all knew who set the fires (as well as who put them out). And,
according to Lingo (I think) there was a lawyer in our group who was insistent
that we report who dunnit to the cops. His first name was Michael.  

Of course JWM was wise enough to know that we owed our continued
existence in 5th City to the willingness of the local community--including the
fire setters--to have us stay. And apparently that didn't sit too well with
this lawyer! So he and his family picked up and left. 

When I arrived a few weeks later, there were burns in the carpet in the
middle of the seminar rooms, as well as the bullet holes in the doors etc
(hence the name of the "bullet hole office" at the top of the stairs
in the Administration Building). Funny how those little details stick with you
long after the building's been 'dozed. 

Marshall 

From: Bill Schlesinger <pvida at whc.net>

To: Colleague Dialogue <dialogue at wedgeblade.net>

Sent: Sat, April 7, 2012 7:07:13 AM

Subject: Re: [Dialogue] 44 years ago today ... 

Mixed memories.  Mine included Tony
going around putting out fires as (never mentioned) friends set them in the
building, and instructions not to discuss those activities with the police, JWM
talking earnestly with folk asking them not to destroy what we were building.
 Life is complex. 

Bill Schlesinger 

Project Vida 

3607 Rivera Avenue 

El Paso, TX 79905 

(915) 533-7057 x 207 

(915) 533-7158 FAX 

pvida at whc.net 

www.projectvidaelpaso.org 

From: dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On
Behalf Of Wilson Priscilla

Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 5:03 PM

To: Colleague Dialogue

Cc: Order Ecumenical Community

Subject: Re: [Dialogue] 44 years ago today ... 

We lived near O'Hare so we were picking up returning pedagogues from
the weekend...then farming out Order children until the riots quieted down. We
had the Marshall children at our house during for a week...or more, I can't
remember.  

I'm sure everyone has memories of those moments...where we were when we
got the word of MLK's death and the subsequent fires across the nation. 

Thanks for the reminder of how the "gangs" really saved the
Institute work at that moment. 

Priscilla 

On Apr 5, 2012, at 8:31 PM, Ken Fisher wrote: 

Dear Colleagues, 

On my fb page I wrote ... 

44 years today, the West Side and South Side were burning and seething
with rage. The shock of 'oblivion' or non-being catapulted Joe Mathews and the
Order: Ecumenical into the New Religious Mode and the New Social Vehicle. I
recall arriving on the West Side five weeks later and being a part of the
spirit rebirth of that cataclysmic event. At that time, Gene Beasely and his
gang moved into an apartment of 3444 as protection. 

Ken 

From Kathleen Hamm Jones  

Wow, thanks, Ken. I remember so well where I was, in an apartment on
Blackstone St in Hyde Park. Unlike the West side of Chicago, the Southside was
kept from burning mostly by patrols by Jeff Fort and the Blackstone Rangers,
who went door to door of the businesses and posted flyers signalling their
protection of the establishments. The back story was of course about Rev John
Fry of 1st Presbyterian Church who poured his whole life and at times, his
sanity, into making that gang into a precursor of the "guardians"
which got attention in NYC later. Somewhere I think I still have his book of
sermons from that time called "Fire and Blackstone." Since then I
think we have gone backward in institutional racism, as the USA leads the world
in incarceration of African-American males. And on top of that fact, the
pernicious reality that prison populations are being "sold" as
private corporations take over running the prisons. It's a profitable biz if
you contract out cheap captive labor. It makes my head feel like exploding. 

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