[Oe List ...] [SPAM]Re: [earthrise] Salty dogs

Mon Apr 21 17:08:12 EDT 2008

Hey George,

I have used that cartoon for years in my facilitation training as part of
the context before the practice sessions.

I share some of your reluctance & reasons thereof for getting involved in
some of the new tricks going around. So many good things to do - so little
time and energy! But I often see the two sided image of the Roman Candle
going off - where to aim it before it fizzles out, and the image of the
mystery gabbing my hand & sucking me under for the rest of my life. 

We are taking a long weekend to drive to Portland to visit Tina and Eric (40
years old Saturday) Tuecke, Dan's youngest, and their two daughters, 5 and
nearly 2 yrs.. Spent the weekend before last in San Francisco visiting Rick
Jones, his partner Sue and their son Teddy who turned 5 in Feb.    Saw Dan's
oldest, Troy, and his 3 kids (14, 10, and 3, in Iowa when we celebrated
Dan's mother's 90th birthday.

Your birthday comes in October doesn't? Happy anyway from another Libra. Hi
to Keith. So glad the Basket is traveling the world.

Pat

Patricia R. Tuecke, Sierra Circle Consulting

Facilitating Amazing Results!

775-333-6998   ptuecke at charter.net

From: oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf
Of William Salmon
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 1:34 PM
To: Ecumenical Order
Subject: [SPAM]Re: [Oe List ...] [earthrise] Salty dogs

Happy Birthday, George. 

    The title "Salty Dog" always is a consciousness raiser for me. Back in
the 1960's, John Cock used to have a sermon/meditation with the same title.
I stole it and have used it both for sermons and for a funeral oration.
Damned good one too. 

    Anyway, you meet the qualifications, and I'm proud that you do. 

    Inner Peace, 

    Bill Salmon

There is a great cartoon that circulated around over the last 10 years or
so. The picture shows a dog riding a unicycle across a high wire with a
balancing pole with two other animal twirling hoops and performing other
tricks and full audience cheering below in wonder. The caption reads
something like this, "it occurred to Rex as he reached the middle of the
wire's length that he was an old dog... and this was a new trick."

I am somewhat amazed as I get increasingly used to a new setting and
environment in Santa Fe at the pioneering spirit and courage of many of our
lot. Who would have guessed that Jim Wiegle, when he went to Germany last
year to take place in a peace making facilitator conference of some sort
Would show up in Ramalla a year later training facilitators in Arabic to
work on what is to come. Frankly I saw the same promo piece as he and said
to myself those famous loosing lines, "it'll never work." Who would have
guessed that Jack Gilles would ever leave India, and what's more actually
come back to the Americas and call us to give energy to thinking through
more of what we bring forward and how, and what we leave behind through
Spring Board. Who would have guessed that Elise Packard would have put
together a culturally transformative approach to dual generational literacy,
the DNA of which is now being launched in the third of its four
international sites with first nation peoples in New Mexico and Canada. Who
would have guessed that John an Thea Patterson's investment in African Aids
prevention would spin off so many great new bursts of Creational Evolution
(Janet Saunders recent witness). So many things are happening --too many to
list --These for me are symbols

In Santa Fe Elise and I have attached ourselves to one of the Presbyterian
congregations. With ghost Ranch a few miles out this must be one of the most
magnetic congregations for retired Presbyterian clergy there is. They
ordained a deacon about two months ago and invited all the ordained clergy
to come an lay on hands. More than 3/4 of the congregation was in the center
aisle three or four abreast with there hands on the person in front of them
who ultimately at the end of the lines had their hands on the Ordiand. We
have no end to great preaching and adult classes, and indeed some are still
in their elder years serving on local and national committees promoting edge
causes. However, some are also caught in the throws of the identity from
which they retired. They struggle with not being the center of the
communities life. They occasionally fall into the trap of undermining the
current pastor in some discussion or decision out of a context of the way it
should be according to my last parish. These for me are symbols as well.

Three Jazz musicians stage a Jam session every Saturday night 6-9:00pm at
Bumble Bee's, al local fast food Mexican restaurant and drive through. They
push the tables aside and set up right in the middle of the small dining
area. The place fills up and they play their stuff with reference only to
Fake book ( A musicians Mind jogger with 8-16 bars of melody and chord
structure). Each time they break new ground with new riffs and new ideas and
far out melodies. When an out of town musician is performing he/she will
almost certainly com by to sit in for a set. It is the basic music
interchange dynamic of the South West. These musicians for me are symbols.

I find myself always over against the pressure to do what I know how to do
-- each time a little better. And in some ways yes the world benefits just
because what I know is often better than the alternatives. But... I also
struggle to consolidate time and focus to venture into new things when my
life is already overflowing with fullness. I find myself drawn to still
invent and innovate. Right now that is the challenge of being the more
present house spouse for a transformative literacy project. (you can get
whole grains at Whole foods and soak them overnight and mix with pancake mix
and protein powder for real whole grain high protein pancakes). This
pressure/calling to venture beyond I don't always say yes to. Some times I
am just tired, some times preoccupied, sometimes not wanting to let any part
of my present fullness go. BUT... Then also comes the e mail in the middle
of the night from Slicker to the Dialogue and Springboard lists that says
"hey get with the transformative social miracle that Ekhart and Opera are
putting out". And then Brother Rupert dies with his boots on in Kamwalini.
Would you believe that old REX bubbles up through my meditative council: "it
occurs to me -- Hey I am an old dog... and there are millions of untried
tricks". Life is open -- follow the spirit!

I am George Packard -- Un-retired and still working in Santa Fe with an
extra bed and bathroom type Wayside Inn near down town. Keith Elise Chapman
and I met on the west side in 69 married in 70 and raised two children in
order structures and human development projects. Truman (72) is with the
World Bank serving Serbia, living in London and serving on the editorial
team of this years Bank Report,. Maicah 79 is in Orlando currently with Air
Tran and a grand daughter Elisa. We served EI/ICA in several US cities, in
the Philippines, Chile, Peru, Center of Imaginal Education (Children's
programs, Chicago), Kenya, Zambia, and then back to Chicago 

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