[Oe List ...] Delayed email to Sandra

[Sandra/Bob True]

Dear Joe,
Thank you so much for this message. In the last weeks of her life Sandra was to weak to read or write her email. I would read them to her and she would dictate to me for her replies. I felt an acolyte at her feet. She burned brightly and spoke with a compassion from very deep.
Still the me that remains is she and me 
And we want you to know we have and will always love you, our great colleague.

Bob and Sandra


On Jan 28, 2011, at 7:50 AM, "M. George Walters" <m.george.walters at verizon.net> wrote:

> Thanks Joe
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> This gives new meaning to living life to the fullest and the very last breath.
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> From: oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Joseph Slicker
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 22:46
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> Subject: [Oe List ...] Delayed email to Sandra
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> Dear Colleagues
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>      I am forwarding an email that I sent Sandra on January 17, 2011.  Since it was a combination of a delayed 'Thank you' for her kind response to my Christmas Greeting, and an offering of comfort, I did not send it in as part of the prayer vigil.  Then I saw LiDona's wonderful pull-together of the over whelming awe-filing responses. They are magnificent out-prourings of heart-felt diversities of care. I then felt my email to Sandra was an appropriate response to go with the collegial expressions.  With One Love that embraces us all.  Joe Slicker.
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> From: Joseph Slicker <joseph.slicker at gmail.com>
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> Date: January 17, 2011 3:11:20 PM CST
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> To: Sandra True <icatrue at igc.org>
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> Cc: Joseph Slicker <joseph.slicker at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Gratitude for your Aliveness
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> Dear…Dear Sandra:  Please accept my heart-felt ‘Thank you’ for your kind response to my Christmas Greeting.
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>           Your attitude of gratitude is an awe-filing expression especially in these days of your pain, chemo, sudden-turns-for- the- worse, and on and on.  Gratitude floods ones heart with the awareness of being Alive.   
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>           Living and dying go on, but being Alive is beyond and encompasses both.  We see in our Aliveness that ‘Life simply is...Being simply is… beneath the comings and goings of forms.’
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>           The gift of awareness also allows us to step back and watch the pain and suffering as well as the elations and reliefs that continually rise and fall, in and out.  This step back also sees the Joy of being Alive.
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>           It comes with the peace that continually flows its presence.  So relax.  Enjoy the flow.  Oh, yes, you laugh and cry, you hurt and feel relief; you might think ‘Why?’ or explode into ecstasy, but in every moment you can sing Halleluiah! (“Praise for what is.”)
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>           The All, that is the continually coming of wholeness, is Love in action.  Its Joy of Aliveness is present to every one and thing.
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>           Attached is a ”Morning Affirmation” of Love that I hope may be of help.  Start with ‘Be loving, kind, and compassionate with myself..’  Go into stillness and watch how the flow of forms of darkness and luminosity continually take place.  Don’t make it heavy.  Lightly watch the buoyancy of their dance as each flickers by.
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>           Talk to yourself.  Thank yourself for being Sandra.  Play that out any way you like.  Giggle and ache.   Be tender and patient with yourself.  Carry on with Robert and comfort him.  Play with your nurses and hospital staff.  Cry and scold if you must.  When all this gets to be too much, continue or drop into stillness.…or take the morphine, and doze away.   All and all, Love the one called Sandra.
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>           Remember, that all creation groans to be the Aliveness you are.         One Love, Joe Slicker
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