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

[svesjaime at aol.com]

Gordon,


I was one of those non-symbolic types who stood up during a rite or ritual, or a solemn collegium, to snap a picture, and had lots of them but they went up in smokes in Sudtonggan when the project house incinerated.  I do remember leaving a lot of negatives with W. Marshall Jones' office/work room, but the last time I asked Marshall if he remembers what happened to them, he could not recall, or was suffering from one of his self-imposed mental blocks of his media production days.  In fact, some photos I took of Sudtonggan were included in development publications between 77-80, none of which I still have.


I remember this council because, I, too, snapped one with Duncan Holmes who was my Prior in Saskatoon House, and Joe Slicker's either spin or send out.  Your photos jagged my memory, and it is pleasant to remember!


Jaime



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From: gharper1 at mindspring.com
To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Fri, Jan 1, 2010 4:06 pm
Subject: [Oe List ...] A Little New Year's Gift


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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