[Oe List ...] Thoughts on ICA-USA Future

[Susan Fertig]

If 85 year olds can go into the Peace Corps, Marshall, young folks like you
can do a new O.E.

 

Susan

 

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Of W. J.
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 4:00 AM
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Subject: [Oe List ...] Thoughts on ICA-USA Future

 

Thanks for your paper, Jack. It bears all the telltale marks of ICA/EI/OE
collegiality and our corporate heritage. 

As I'm counting down the last 5 days B4 clicking over 70,000 miles on the
old-ometer, and creaking on creaking on, as they say, I find myself missing
the fantastic dynamism that was manifested in our Order.

What it would take to breathe life into your program is reconstituting some
form of the Order dynamic -- with some younger, energetic colleagues. Like
reconstituting frozen orange juice concentrate, it would take a lot of
watering and stirring the pot to bring back to life our 'frozen' human
assets in palatable form.

You call for 'priorship.' We can't "go back" to the way it was (at some
idealized point in time) but we CAN go forward. That might mean something
like filling up the Kemper Building once again with an intentional
transformational leadership force. I might even go for that in my old age,
if we could kind of mix that dynamic with something like an Order Rest Home!
(You know, with nap-time included as necessary! Oh yeah, and maybe less
round-the-clock enablement for us wheezers.)

An authentically transgenerational community that offered amazing
learning/living opportunities for college students combined with access to a
bunch of us old graybeards (and gray-haired women too) might just surprise
and energize us all.

Just a thought B4 I put the 70 candles on the cake.

Marshall

 

 

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From: Jack Gilles <icabombay at igc.org>
To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>; Colleague Dialogue
<dialogue at wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Sun, September 12, 2010 11:09:51 AM
Subject: [Dialogue] Thoughts on ICA-USA Future


Dear Colleagues,

Attached is a document on my thoughts regarding the future of the ICA-USA
now that it has a Board of historically knowledgeable colleagues and a new
Director in Terry Bergdall.  I'm not sure this really needs to go to both
list-serves, but I'm doing so.  I'll let Terry and the Board decide if and
how they would like to structure dialogue on this topic.

Peace,

Jack






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