[Oe List ...] current dialog and a question

[Marilyn R Crocker]

Hi Jon,
 
Your folks -- Tony and Ellery --  were among our favorite colleagues and
I trust they are comfortably settled in their new home.
 
I have deeply appreciated the input you and Shelly Hahn have offered to
this list serve over the past several years.  I may have missed
remembering other "second generation" participants, but your voices are
always refreshing and relevant, from where I stand.
 
If there was a list serve established for a dialogue between the first
and second generations after the Vail 2000 gathering, I was unaware of
it. However, I would love to engage in a dialogue between our
generations, as there are so many wonderful young persons who touched my
life during the time I was gifted with the assignment of "EG."  And with
those lives I would now love to reconnect.
 
I love the fact that Jane Sharpe (in Student House with Jon and Ben
Crocker and now an OBGYN doc) delivered our first grandson, Daniel.

Joe and I were recently blessed to visit with Rebecca Grow and Jeff
Krasnow and their beautiful twins, Isadora Cameron and Zachary Albert.
Long before I knew Nan and Bill Grow, I came to love Rebecca, the shining
star of grades 4-6 EG, West Side, Chicago, 1968-69, when I was but an
intern in the Order and spent almost every weekend with the wonderful
"legacies" of the Grows, Boivens and others.  Years later Joe and I
reconnected with Patti Boiven in Maliwada, India and she often served as
"in loco parentis" for our kids  (which they loved!) when we were
facilitating consults in other villages.  

And the same day we met Rebecca and Jeff's twins, we had dinner with Nan
Bailey, whom we considered our first of many "adopted" daughters,
(assigned to us in the NY House) and someone who has continued over the
years to play an important role as Ben and Jon's "big sister," and now
dear friend.

I think we all have many perspectives to share and lots of topics to
explore across the generations.  I hope we can figure out how this might
work.

Many thanks for your suggesting that we talk together.

With love,

Marilyn

Marilyn R. Crocker, Ed.D
Crocker & Associates, Inc.
123 Sanborn Road
West Newfield, ME 04095
(207) 793-3711

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 16:47:12 GMT "jonzondo at juno.com" <jonzondo at juno.com>
writes:
> Hello Group.  Jon Elizondo here.  Son of Antonio and Ellery.
> I just finished helping my parents move from Kemper to Houston.
> 
> I have been following the discussion going on here with interest 
> from my many perspectives.  I have several thousand things to say, 
> which I will most certainly pare down, however, I have a question 
> first...
> 
> Long ago, after the 2000 Vail gathering, a list serve was set up 
> with one of its purposes being the dialog between the first and the 
> second generations.  My question is:
> 
> Is this listserve/email group interested in a dialog between the 
> generations?
> Is there another one set up for that purpose?
> I know with all the changes in servers and email lists, I have 
> wondered about this, especially as that kind of general discussion 
> has not happened in This forum in some time.
> 
> I do not wish to include people in the discussion that don't want to 
> be in the discussion, and I have some reflections on the current set 
> of discussions which may stir the pot a bit.
> 
> Not all of what I wish to share falls into that category, and there 
> a times when I'm not sure if what I'm asking about even matters at 
> all.  Nonetheless, to respect my desire for connection, I pose this 
> query.  Thanks to all in advance for your thoughts and 
> considerations.
> 
> Respectfully,
> Walk in Beauty,
> Jon Mark Elizondo
> Seattle, WA
> 
> 
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