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

[Sandra/Bob True]

Thank you Gordon. Happy New Year and Happy 50th! After many decades in  
mission and wonderful children and grand children you and Roxanne have  
cared well for the world and history.
A
We are priveleged to know you. Greetings to allin Litibu.

Sandra

On Jan 1, 2010, at 10:39 AM, "Ruth H. Gilbert" <ruth4ica at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Gordon,
> What fun these photos are. I do wonder if we could collect a couple  
> from a large number of people and put together an interesting  
> montage of our past!
>
> By the way – Happy Anniversary! 50 really is a milestone.
>
> Also, have fun with the Litibu Community. We are sorry not to be  
> there this year. Would love to see some of your photos from your  
> time there, if you take some.
> Ruth
>
> From: oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net]  
> On Behalf Of gharper1 at mindspring.com
> Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 12:06 AM
> To: Order Ecumenical Community
> 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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