[Oe List ...] Lingo and four lists

[W. J.]

Maybe Lingo and some of the others of you have missed out on some of the context and detail on these lists, so I will attempt to put it all out there in one email.
   
  As we all know, there is only one irreplacable Lingo (and I hope to God he makes it to Junaluska). And there's no way to fully represent Lingo unless Lingo is there. You have to capture him in the wild or try to lure him to where you decide he needs to be. 
   
  Same with all of us, really. You don't "get" the fullness of Cynthia's being unless she is there. So there is no way really to represent all of us in our uniqueness by naming just one or a few. 
   
  That said, even the master Assignment Board never captured every name, and it was always out of date. Nevertheless, that imperfect symbol represented the larger reality that it never adequately captured.
   
  So the naming and honoring of every last soul is crucial at some point. And the Directory is the best stab I know of at attempting this.
   
  There are two "Limited Edition" DVD's that you can order if you get your name on the list now, and these together represent the expenditure of thousands of us who were never named or captured on film or videotape. 
   
  And there are actually four lists of people in the credits who, necessarily, have to represent the fullness of being of all of us, living and dead.
   
  The 'Fifth City Pioneers' are all deceased and include Joe Mathews and three other Symbolic Order members from the original seven families who together represent all of us: Joe Pierce, Lyn Mathews, and John Mathews. Plus an extensive list of people from the community who gave their lives in Fifth City.
   
  The second, third, and fourth lists are specific to the 'Decade of Miracles' videotape and are in the closing credits over the song, "When Iron Men Go Marching In."
   
  The second list is of people who were present at the event and/or honored for their roles in providing major support: Daley, Chandler, Sisler, Wood, and the Lloyds.
   
  The third list is honors representative Fifth City leaders who are still living.
   
  And the fourth list honors all the Guardians, living and deceased, by naming just a few, some of whom, like Jim and Laverne Philips, were visibly there. So I chose Audrey Ayers (suggested by Lela Mosley) and the North Shore Cadre to represent all the Guardians, whose unheralded and invisible work was woven throughout the entire enterprise--notably in the human development consults, acceleration treks, LENS courses, Town Meetings, Kemper restoration, serving as the EI/ICA board of directors, and I can't even remember all the other stuff, but the visible evidence that got into history can be seen on both DVD's. God bless them every one.
   
  So that's the best I could do within the obvious limits of this DVD project. There needs to be a lot more work on documentation and creating different ways to record, honor, and write the history of our expenditure, but that's a dimension of developing and accessing the Archives, and it's way bigger than two DVD's, the Golden Pathways CD, and the digital Directory. 
   
  But for starters, you should really have all four of these little round plastic discs. Get 'em while they're hot!
   
  Marshall Jones
   
  Thanks to all of you who suggested names. And esp. Mary Laura and J. Epps for suggesting and correcting the 4th list. Yes, Martin & Betty were added at the last second. In about two hours it all gets digitally encoded in the master file. And that locks it up for this edition.
   
   
   
   
   
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