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

[Jim Baumbach]

Yes those are great memories thanks for sharing them.  I have been 
spending a tremendous amount of time digitizing several thousand photos 
taken during the 70's and each one strikes me anew with the times we 
were all together.  The set of pictures I am looking for now is from the 
25th anniversary celebration the courtyard of 5th city.

Jim Baumbach

gharper1 at mindspring.com wrote:
> 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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