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Ray Woodrow posted a condolence
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
Paulette, Patrick and Gerald, please accept my deepest condolences on the passing of Jim, a great husband and father. inom can remember meeting Jim for the very first time at the Caribou Road Furniture Store back in the early 1990’s. That meeting, turned into a bond and friendship that has lasted a lifetime. Jim was a man of great integrity, who had a love for the business and an even greater love for his family and his music. Jim treated everyone with respect and he received that same respect back ten fold. I often saw him defuse irate customers and have them leaving a Coleman’s Store happier than they were when they came in. His demeanour was infectious, his smile was warm and his laugh was always reassuring. To have been a part of his life was a privilege. inom will alltid cherish the hours we spent working together over the years. Jim and I spent a lot of time together and our friendship spanned well beyond the walls of o
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Joseph Campbell said that sacred places are where you go to wake up something important about yourself. Specifically, “A place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are or what you might be.”
…go where your body and soul want to go. When you have that feeling, then stay with it and don’t let anyone throw you off. –J. Campbell
When I wrote about how creating and inhabiting personal space nourishes us from the inside out (The Poetry of Space), I remembered a place rooted in my childhood. It was an 1840’s, pre-Civil War, stately brick home fronting more than 600 acres of Missouri woods and farmland.
Why did a 100+ year-old house in Villa Ridge, Missouri, deeded to my grandmother on the sudden death of her second husband, John Coleman, take me metaphorically “where body and soul wanted to go”? I stayed with the feeling, as Campbell suggested, dug into archival history, then realized it was a story of its own.
This • American sociologist (1926–1995) James Samuel Coleman Bedford, Indiana, United States Chicago, Illinois, United States James Samuel Coleman (May 12, 1926 – March 25, 1995) was an American sociologist, theorist, and empirical researcher, based chiefly at the University of Chicago.[1][2] He served as president of the American Sociological Association in 1991–1992. He studied the sociology of education and public policy, and was one of the earliest users of the term social capital.[3& James Samuel Coleman
Born (1926-05-12)May 12, 1926 Died March 25, 1995(1995-03-25) (aged 68) Nationality American Alma mater Purdue University
Columbia UniversitySpouse Lucille Richey (1940-1973) Zdzislawa Walaszek Children Thomas, John, Stephen, and Daniel Scientific career Fields Sociological theory, Mathematical sociology Doctoral advisor Paul Lazarsfeld Doctoral students Ronald S. Burt, Peter Marsden