[Oe List ...] Gratefulness

[marilyncrocker at juno.com]

Hi Priscilla,

Many thanks for your recent note to the OE/ICA list serves, first
especially for the poem you shared by DeMar Regier.  It reminded me of
Wes McNair's poem "It" recently featured on the Writers Almanac and The
News Hour.  (Wes is currently Maine's Poet Laureate).  How appropriate
the line, "simply say, She died."  It announces the "terminus" Bultmann
assured us of, and powerfully, even starkly, grounds the concept of
"contingency" we put forth in every way we could in RSI.

Secondly, thank you for articulating to our networks the importance of
intentional, thoughtful conversations about advanced directives relative
to end of life issues.  Joe and I are in the midst of such tough, but
important conversations, thanks to a program for members of local
churches in the area led by the Chaplain of Hospice of Southern Maine. 
It was immediately clear to me when you posted Rod's obituary so quickly
that you and he had done your homework such that neither of you, nor your
kids found yourselves unprepared.

And thirdly, how lovely that you are giving -- indeed, offering up --
Rod's treasured symbols of expenditure with the Santa Fe RR to "someone"
who shares that passion as a "railroad buff."  I trust one of us, who
knows someone, who has heard of someone..... will name that new "curator"
of the symbols of a treasured history. How wonderful it would be if each
of us could "pass forward" treasured artifacts to persons of the next
generation for whom those items will be enjoyed and cherished for meaning
that goes far beyond monetary value.

With love and continued respect for who you are,

Marilyn


Dr. Marilyn R. Crocker
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West Newfield, ME 04095
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