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

[Bill Parker]

Marshall, you have just articulated in graphic form the notion of the Living Archives and the Living Legacy that is being discussed in the Oklahoma City University/Oikos context as well.
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  From: Susan Fertig 
  To: 'Order Ecumenical Community' 
  Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 10:34 PM
  Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Thoughts on ICA-USA Future


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

   

  Susan

   

  From: oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of W. J.
  Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 4:00 AM
  To: Colleague Dialogue; oe at wedgeblade.net
  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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