[Oe List ...] "Twilight edition"

[Carol Crow]

Dear Milan, Neva Reese, Shan McSpadden, Rich and Julie, and other 
colleagues who hailed from Lincoln, NE

I, too, have been remembering.  I talked with Terry this morning and in 
the conversation decided to fly to Denver tomorrow morning to be with 
him a couple days.  Could you join us?  He is alert and was delighted 
to know I'm coming.  I had him promise that he would hang on until I 
got there!

Carol

> David et al, This is Milan Hamilton.  I have been reading the messages
> regarding both Vance and Terry, but have not been quite able to put 
> words
> together to reply until now.  I am thinking back to 1967-8 in Lincoln,
> Nebraska.  Vance along with Bob Fishel was one of my main mentors in my
> movement of the spirit journey days, and Terry was likely my best 
> friend in
> those days as well.  I remember one weekend course where I believe 
> Terry and
> I and Vance and Bob had adjourned to a local bar after the first or 
> second
> day of a weekend course, for an in-depth conversation about 
> "vocation".  Not
> long after that Terry and family moved to Chicago.
>
> Terry and I took on the formulation of what was then known as the 
> "Kansas
> City Region" traveling around to recruit training courses, meeting with
> clergy, getting up for daily office (worship) at 5 a.m., dragging our 
> kids
> along with us, holding endless "pedagogy" sessions to prepare to teach 
> those
> weekend courses, organizing regional meetings, etc. etc.  It was an
> emotional sendoff when Terry and Karen and their young children left.  
> We
> did not keep close touch through the years, but did re-connect when we 
> were
> involved in the FOOD FOR ALL project.
>
> I was just preparing to send a check for Terry's latest offering of 
> poems,
> with the comment I was going to send along that I thought this was his 
> best
> collection yet.  I found myself connecting with several, especially the
> poems on "death and dying", which reminded my of my own impending
> destination, and not so far off anymore at that, when I received the 
> news of
> Terry going into the Hospice.  David, perhaps when you see Terry next, 
> you
> can convey this to him.
>
> "Terry, old friend, I was reading the poem called Down Payment, and 
> recalled
> some of the times in our friendship, especially the time of our first
> parting in Lincoln so many years ago.  You were always the one who went
> farther and deeper into the spirit of things.  I sensed the pain of
> separation but was more the Stoic, which was my conditioned response to
> relationships.  Your one line: "One knows real friendship when it 
> hurts, and
> it always hurts" brought me back to those times with you.  So, old 
> friend, I
> bid you a safe and fulfilling journey as you pave the way for me again 
> into
> the "real unknown, the unknown unknown" as D.H Lawrence put it.
>
> With love, honor, and gratitude, your friend, Milan
>
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> Linda and Milan Hamilton
> 80 North Center Street
> Redlands, CA 92373
> Phone/Fax: (909) 793-4482
> E-mail: participationworks at dslextreme.com
>
>
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