[Oe List ...] FW: [earthrise] Reflection & News of Elise Boulding's death

Sun Jul 4 18:53:52 CDT 2010

Shortly after sending this reflection to the Earthrise list, I received the
message from Claire Whitney.  There is also a great write-up in the NY
Times, but I couldn't get it to forward.   With gratitude for the many whose
lives have marked ours.  Lynda  

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From: Clare Whitney [mailto:cla9ken8 at ecentral.com] 
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 5:32 PM
To: Lynda Cock
Subject: Re: [earthrise] Reflection

Dear Lynda,  A wonderful witness, thank you.  Elise Boulding died this week
at a great age.  She was quite an amazing woman in her own right.  Her
obituary is at Denverpost.com if you would like to read it.  Clare

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Lynda Cock <mailto:LLC860 at triad.rr.com>  
To: earthrise at yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 2:54 PM
Subject: [earthrise] Reflection

A Memorable Year: 2010: 70th birthday, July 2, and our 50th anniversary,
August 21

Kenneth Boulding has played an important part in our intellectual life in
the Order.  For me, he was mostly known for his defining role in the
Imaginal Education course that was designed and taught by our Teachers'
Guild.

For my 70th birthday, my dear husband gave me a little book of poetry by
Boulding:  Sonnets from Later Life 1981-1993, with these two special poems
marked among many others.  Noting the similarity of both the birth date and
the anniversary date, I felt a special kinship with Elise Boulding who, like
me, was the recipient of her husband's poetic gifts.  

In his declining health, Boulding found the confines of the sonnet matched
his energies, forcing him to articulate his brooding succinctly, and
allowing his Muse to continue to speak.  (I highly recommend the entire book
as he continues to reflect upon "aging and disability, time's thievery .
turning all these negativities into opportunities" for continued growth.)  

"Sonnet for My Wife Elise on the Occasion of her Seventieth Birthday" (6
July, 1990)

Seventy is a kind of magic number,

When life, for some, is thought to reach its peak;

For others, like yourself, it's a mystique

That merely lifts the shackles that encumber

Our earlier years, that tie to us useless lumber,

Obscuring what we really need to seek.

It is a vision, and a call to speak

Of new awakenings, and not of slumber. 

To this I testify!  My seventies

Have been the richest decade of my life,

And I am sure that you, beloved wife,

Will find the same sweet freedom in the breeze

     That has upheld our wings these precious years

     And brought amazing joy beyond tears.  

(p. 139)

As I reflected with John, our sons and their wives and celebrated with our
nine delightful energetic grandchildren, I take heart in Boulding's
declaration of his 70's as the richest decade of his life and look forward
to the continued journey of "new awakenings". 

"Sonnet for the Golden Wedding of Kenneth and Elise Boulding" (31 August,
1991)

My mind swings back to that first day we met,

When Love's clear holy light flared up between us.

After that meeting, nothing could demean us,

And after fifty years it's shining yet.

Then Love committed, bravely did beget

A wondrous tribe-something poor shell-bound Venus

Could not achieve, til You-I came to mean Us,

Beyond the reach of life's turmoil and fret.  

So have we lived upon a rich plateau;

True, life together is not without its cliffs-

Misunderstandings, separations, tiffs

Can slope toward a precipice below,

     But love, true love, always turned us around,

     And here we stand, still on love's holy ground.  

(p. 140)

I share the first sonnet with those among you who are in or approaching your
70th year. The second one I share with special thoughts of Nancy and Fred
Lanphear, who are celebrating their 51st this day, July 4.  We consider Fred
and Nancy part of our family for the meaning-filled task they assumed in
helping raise our son John (and many others) in his years in the Phase I
program of the Order:Ecumenical.  Their journey, especially these past few
years, together and as a family through sickness and health into the
Awe-filled future serves as a powerful witness and guide to the rest of us.
I am forever filled with gratitude for the gifts of the colleagues we share
and whose lives bless ours through this community.

~Lynda Cock, Greensboro, NC, with deep thanks to my husband John for this
very special reflective gift.  

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