[Oe List ...] A Little New Year's Gift

[Joyce Sloan]

Gordan, what a treasure! Thank you for sharing these.

Joyce Ollison Sloan.

2010/1/1 <gharper1 at mindspring.com>

> A Warm New Year's Greeting to Everyone --
>
> Roxana and I are privileged to be celebrating the event this year with the
> community of Order colleagues here in Litibu, Mexico.
>
> In marking our 50th Anniversary this past year, we put together a slide
> show for our kids of selected scenes along the way.  In order to do this, I
> quite insanely decided that I should review all the snapshots and slides
> tucked away in what turned out to be an incredible number of boxes and
> albums in our closets.  In doing so, I inadvertently discovered a treasure
> that I didn't know existed and that I'd like to share with you.
>
> As I think back over the decade from the mid-sixties to the mid-seventies,
> I can recall very little picture taking inside either Base or Kemper or our
> religous houses.  (Let me know if I'm wrong, and you have such.)  We
> faithfully documented at least some aspects of our work in other ways, but
> capturing moments or events of our daily life with a camera was simply not
> part of our culture.  We weren't about calling attention to ourselves, and
> we wanted the world's attention to be focused on what others accomplished.
> We were to be the invisible catalysts in the mix.
>
> To have gone about snapping pictures of our work in the centrums or during
> Collegia would have seemed quite frivolous, unmissional, perhaps even
> suspicious.  I can only savor the image of what our responses (and
> especially Joe's) would have been had I, for example, ever stepped out of
> place during Daily Office to take a picture of it--even if I didn't ask
> everyone to smile!
>
> So, if some of our memories of our common life may have dimmed over the
> years, or we've even begun to wonder if perhaps some of it was a dream, I
> offer you the gift of four moments in time, in color and with many of us
> perfectly recognizable.  They took my breath away when I discovered them.  I
> hope you have a similar experience as we start this new year.
>
> Here they are, on the Repository --
>
>
> http://twiki.wedgeblade.net/bin/view.cgi/Main/InYr1976HumanDevelopmentProjects
>
> Gordon
>
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