[Oe List ...] Gratefulness

[marilyncrocker at juno.com]

Hi Alice and Jaime,

I watched an interview on Maine PBS conducted by Jennifer Rooks with Wes
McNair a few weeks ago, then heard the same interview the next day on
public radio.  So far the program has not been archived.  I understand
Wes is soon to publish a memoir entitled "The Words I Chose" so perhaps
it will be contained therein.  In the poem he used the word "it" as we
commonly use it -- e.g. it's raining; why did you do it; I would have
tasted it if I'd known etc.  It was delightful.  I'll send it to you if I
see it emerge in print.

Marilyn

On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 23:37:29 -0400 (EDT) Jaime R Vergara
<svesjaime at aol.com> writes:
Looked it up, too, the "it", but could not locate it.  Will not mind
getting a copy as well.


j'aime la vie



-----Original Message-----
From: abaumbach <abaumbach at new.rr.com>
To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Sat, Jul 2, 2011 10:56 am
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Gratefulness


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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