>---------------- Begin Forwarded Message ---------------->Date: 11/28 10:58 AM>Received: 11/29 10:32 AM> From: Robert Stilger, rstilge-@igc.org> To: transfor-@igc.topica.com>>

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: rstilge-@nrf.org>>homepages:>http://www.nrf.org>http://www.resilientco mmunities.org>http://www.transform.org/transform/tlc/>>--------------- ----------------------

-- Jean Wasp (jean@sonic.net), December 01, 1999