[Oe List ...] "A dog in this hunt" my vested interest

[mhampton at att.net]

A dog in this hunt
 
I have saved numerous email documents since the ICA firings, documents discussions and so forth.  I was among the indignant at the Mathews misspelling.  When I put our local dinner-once-a-month-and-study group on my calendar I usually write “ICA”.
 
When I was in the Order in its residential, shared income, gathered community mode I was a permeator.  I wanted to be a permeator.  I remember in the 1987 or so writing and publishing via connected computers (what did we call that early form of internet?) A profession and a calling.  Basically, I was saying I was (and am) an occupational therapist, a specific health care professional.  AND I was (and am) a member of Those Who Care, in the specific form of the Order Ecumenical.
 
I normally call the dinner and study group “the Alumni Association” in my head.  It consists, at this time, of Hamptons, Glenna and Dane Adkinson, Nick and Deborah Denner, Ken and Deana Henry, Terry and Diane McCabe, George and Wanda Holcombe and Laura Westbrook.  None of these folk were ever assigned with me in the residential Order.  Everyone except Deborah had their own first hand experience that manifestation of our community.  AND, since we have been meeting with some of them for 14 years, they are among my deepest colleagues and friends.
 
We don’t do ICA together.  If we are at your house you are responsible for the main course and the program.  We have studied many wonderful writings, artform conversed about music, watched movies and gone tubing together.  
 
And all of us invested our lives in Town Meetings, Development Projects and IERD.  Leading them and holding the outside jobs that were a substantial part of how we paid for it all.
 
I have wondered why I keep saving all these emails.  I still am invested in this community.  I am invested in my children, but Lis is 30 and Chris is 26; I don’t presume to tell them how to live (and when I slip up and do—they don’t follow my “instructions”).  
 
Is ICA different?  Should we have had a symbolic burning and dissolved those ICA and EI corporations/disallowed use of the names when we called the symbolic Order out of being?  Are these names among the words “that should be hung out on the clothes line to air for 50 years”?  
 
I have more questions than answers.  I have a stake in the products of our work—the archives.  I am still waiting to hear the answers to questions others have raised about where ICA goes from here.  I want to respond to “that of God in each of you,” in the Quaker phrase, and trust what is being born is an aspect of Those Who Care in action.
 
Please keep us informed.  Please do not take our interest lightly.
 
Grace and Peace,
Love and Light, 
mary kincaid hampton
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