[Oe List ...] Gratefulness

[abaumbach at new.rr.com]

Marilyn, what a lovely and thoughtful note to Pricilla. Thanks, too, for introducing us to Wes McNair...read some of his poetry online and will read more. Do you have a copy of "It"? That one doesn't seem to be on the net yet. Hello to Joe, too. Alice Baumbach

---- marilyncrocker at juno.com wrote: 
> 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
> 123 Sanborn Road
> West Newfield, ME 04095
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