Agenda
- Check in
- Opening Blessing
- Review WWWs
- Weekly event logistics
- Year Plan
- Review Agenda
- New Videos
- Strategic Planning
- Evaluations
- Closing Blessing
Next business call
- Tactics Talk (in context of our strategy metaphor, roots, stalk, fruits)
- We Believe
Check-in
- Eric … I should be glowing from having gone up to Buckleberry and got that work done, but for some reason I'm all grumpy and have been for 24 hours … although meditating with Ben last night fixed some of it
- Ben … I am feeling trapped in a world of dysfunctional relationships where people who need help rage against the people who help them for not doing enough.
- Brandon … It’s sunny and nice out and I am inside on Skype.
Brandon’s poem
You say, that in Ottawa, Spring was fleeting But now it is really sleeting Still, it melts and winter takes a beating.
Opening Blessing
Life is what it is. May we find gratitude to get to be with life. May we connect with our amazingness and support each other to express that amazingness. --Blessed Be
WW(W)s from last time
Ongoing
- Brandon … Try for a streak of 3 days in a row with bedtime at 9:30 every night, wake up with alarm at 5:30
- Brandon … Meditate regularly (at least 3) with Eric (Eric wants this back!)
- Brandon … Coach regularly (at least 3) with Ted
- Ben … Send Brandon/Eric a video message each day about what I did and watch theirs
- <s>Ben … meditate regularly (at least 3) with Eric</s>
- <s>Ben … spend at least 15 minutes a day (at least 3) on my story</s>
- <s>Eric … Send Brandon/Ben a video message each day about what I did and watch theirs
- Eric … Work on Buckleberry or Auberge Paradis at least 15 minutes a day
- Eric … Meditate regularly with Ben</s>
- Eric … Meditate regularly with Brandon
- <s>Eric … Practice viscerally connecting with Gaia at least once a week</s>
Time-specific
- Brandon … discuss September in Ottawa with Shelley (around September 22) … by next call
- Brandon … get pictures from last two events for newsletter … by today
- <s>Ben … join the Slack and ask Rico about the newsletter … by today
- Ben … send a draft of the Winter Newsletter … by tomorrow</s>
- Ben … update the News section … by next call
- Ben … find photos for the first 6 months of the calendar … by next call
- Eric … find photos for the other 6 months … by next call
- <s>Eric … finish new Viriditas de Terra tree … by end of season
- Eric … finish editing video … before I die.</s>
WW(W)s
Ongoing
- Brandon … Try for a streak of 3 days in a row with bedtime at 9:30 every night, wake up with alarm at 5:30
- Brandon … Meditate regularly (at least 3) with Eric
- Brandon … Coach regularly (at least 3) with Ted
- Ben … Send Brandon/Eric a video message each day about what I did and watch theirs
- Ben … meditate regularly (at least 3) with Eric
- Ben … spend at least 15 minutes a day (at least 3) on my story
- Eric … Send Brandon/Ben a video message each day about what I did and watch theirs
- Eric … Work on Buckleberry or Auberge Paradis at least 15 minutes a day
- Eric … Meditate regularly with Ben</s>
- Eric … Meditate regularly with Brandon
- Eric … Practice viscerally connecting with Gaia at least once a week
Time-specific
- Brandon … discuss September in Ottawa with Shelley (around September 22) … by next call
- Brandon … get pictures from last two events for newsletter … by today
- Ben … finish the graphics for the newsletter … by next call
- Ben … update the News section … by next call
- Ben … find photos for the first 6 months of the calendar … by next call
- Eric … find photos for the other 6 months … by next call
- Eric … post the Life is Precious video to YouTube and Facebook … Saturday morning
- Eric … post Gaia on the Beach to wiki … This afternoon
- Eric … draw the schematics for Buckleberry … by next call
Weekly Events Logistics
Service rotation: Eric, Ben, Brandon, Rico, Shelley
- May 1 Falcon 9 launch 7:00 - 9:00 EDT / 4:00 - 6:00 AM PDT
- May 6 Service: 8:00 AM PDT / 11:00 EDT … Ben
- May 7 Business Call: Canceled due to holiday
Year Plan
May Day
- The Sanders can celebrate it on Saturday May 6 in Portland, (Shelley's birthday is Sunday the 7th).
- Arboretum work party, 9 AM to noon
- Everyone should sign up online
- Eric will plan to plant cedars at Buckleberry
- He'll look into possibly bringing his family
- Could find cedars that are going to die because they're growing in the shade of too many other trees, and transplant them
Eric's videos
- Brandon loves the video and thinks it should go on the SolSeed YouTube channel as-is
- Higher quality will make Eric feel that he can't produce the videos fast enough to feel worth the energy
Tactics
White-hatting
Politics
- Start a Shiny Party that promotes science better than any existing party, as well as voting reform using ranked-choice ballots and auditable cryptographic proof of who's voting so we wouldn't have to trust the voting-machine companies. Also promotes ConsensusPolling and other methods for better decision making in a networked age.
- Embracing diversity by defending immigrant and refugee rights
- Meet with police leaders to express the need for rules that avoid making police the enemies of immigrants
- Hold/participate in an event to celebrate diverse cultures
Ben kind of thinks this should be a goal but doesn't think it matches our abilities Eric thinks participating in cultural celebrations would work, although only as allies adding extra bodies to these important events
Evaluation
- Eric … I'm really happy that you guys are satisfied with my video, and I'm looking forward to making more and better videos
- Brandon … I was not looking forward to doing the call, and grumpy about it, but I actually enjoyed being with you guys and it has turned me around a little bit, so thank you
- Ben … I am still feeling down but looking forward to next week when I get to see friends and family in person and looking forward to September.
Closing Blessing
Sometimes our daily lives make us suffer. We have trouble seeing our pains and difficulties as mere stumbling blocks on a glorious path to our highest aspirations. We came together and had a little bit of time to work in the right direction, and doing the work has cheered us. May this allow us to see our pains and difficulties as mere stumbling blocks of the week as we renew our commitment to this long march. May this cheer stay with us. -- Blessed Be