----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Dator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 28, 1999 11:34 AM Subject: Robert Theobald Has Died (fwd) > > He was one of the best of the early futurists, farsighted and active to > the very end. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 05:58:05 -1000 > From: Robert Stilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Robert Theobald Has Died > > Dear Friends and Colleagues, > > Yesterday afternoon, Saturday November 27th at 1:41pm, Robert Theobald's > body died and his spirit was set free. > > He was surrounded by a very close circle of friends who held him in life > as well as in death. We mourned his passing, and relished his living. > > He came home from the hospital to his apartment just one week earlier. > While his body continued to fail, his spirits never did. He was putting > things together at an astonishing rate, frustrated by his diminished > ability to give full voice to what he was coming to understand. He > laughed and cried and direct us in his care. And he told us that he > loved us -- as we each told him. > > The energy and light and prayer that so many of you have poured into > Spokane over the last three weeks has been a marvel. It held him. A > gentle web which held him while he continued with his work and his > living. It was precious, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart. > > Robert thanks you as well. Reach out with your mind's eye and you will > feel him smiling. May this web of connection continue, holding each of > us in our lives and in our work. > > > Three items as we transform forward with all our lives: > > 1. Full, current biographical information available. You can view it > on-line at http://www.transform.org/transform/tlc/rtbio.html. Other > information is available upon request if you are writing an article, > feature story or obituary for Robert. Please e-mail me. > > 2. We're planning a Spokane celebration of Robert's life in two weeks, > on Saturday, December 11, 1999. That date is exactly the mid-point > between Robert's 70th and 71st birthday. We will see if we can make > part of the celebration "virtual". More details as they happen. > > 3. The work that Robert and I and many others have been committed to > will continue. New forms and new shapes, to be sure. "Stay tuned for > further announcements". > > Many Blessings > > Bob > > Bob Stilger, Executive Director > Northwest Regional Facilitators > East 525 Mission Avenue > Spokane, WA 99202 > Phone: (509) 484 6733, ext 139 > Fax: (509) 483 3045 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > homepages: > http://www.nrf.org > http://www.resilientcommunities.org > http://www.transform.org/transform/tlc/ > > > _____________________________________________________________ > What's hot at Topica? Sign up for our "Best New Lists" > newsletter and find out! http://www.topica.com/t/8 >
