December 15, 2013: Online Work Bee

Brandon ... the Sanders galaxy plate has been painted with glaze and is now getting fired ... also, unlike last weekend, the kids are not sick
Eric ... I did all sorts of really fun things this weekend
Ben ... Yesterday afternoon, I got together with two people I know and one person I barely know and it went OK (but one of my friends may have felt left out of the conversation)

<s>Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
Ben ... write a draft of an "invitation to co-convene" letter to Heather Johnson ... by next week</s>
Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
<s>Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
Brandon ... push up the changes to the website ... by Monday
Brandon ... put together a funding proposal for the first Kindred event ... by next week
Brandon ... write a draft of an "invitation to co-convene" letter to John Boswell ... by next week
Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
Eric ... Check out Plan and WorldVision and sponsor a child through one... by next week
Eric ... Write an invitation to Connie Barlow and Michael Dowd, evolutionary spirituality re Kindred Festival ... Exuberence about Life and Truth about REALizing science, life, humanity ... by next week</s>
Keith ... Write an invitation to TK, CELSS guy [supportive of life via technology, sciences, and/or community] ... by next week

Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
Ben ... create a list of all the projects we've funded and how much money we've committed to each one ... by next call
Ben ... create a piece of imagery for The Seed video ... by next call
Ben ... start drafting the Fall 2013 newsletter ... by next call
Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
Brandon ... make extra CDs to give out at the Solstice
Brandon ... write up a vision and do some preliminary research for the venue for Kindred ... by next call
Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
Eric ... revise draft Kindred invite ... by next call.
Eric ... analyse words and actions for second season in response to critical input and new ideas ... by next call
Eric ... draft some Drip Emails ,.. by next call
Eric ... try to write another day for the SolSeed Book of Days ... by next call

Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben

December 21 Service: 9:00 am PDT (12:00 EDT) (Brandon) SOLSTICE ... 3/4 in person :-)
December 28 Service: 9:00 am PDT (12:00 EDT) (Ben)

Portland
Friday, Ben arrives at 9:45pm. Solstice service in the morning, festival in the evening ... sleep by the tree. Sanders have to leave by 10am on Sunday.
Some CDs that the Sanders sent out were damaged in the mail, but we can hand out replacement CDs at the event.
Ottawa: Saturday after the service, Eric will drive out to Jessica's parents' place, launch rockets in the afternoon, then potluck, then fireworks just after sunset

The "we don't know her and we don't love her" thing
Brandon agrees that the goal is to change this situation ... he's trying to draw a parallel with cells in your body
Eric: How about "We don't know her but we could love her"?
Ben: Could we say something along the lines of "most of us don't know or love her?"
Eric: Or we can just say "there will be other songs about loving Gaia"

Gus's timelapse
Brandon: We should see if John wants to use it or not before asking Gus for formal permission
Ben: We could tell John that we want to use it
Eric: We should make sure John has as much artistic freedom as possible
Brandon: We could play weather patterns like this forward and backward to simulate breathing
Ben: Editing tricks like that seem intellectually dishonest to me
Brandon: I don't care so much if the imagery is truthful or not ... I'm going for emotional impact rather than intellectual communication
Eric: I think it's okay to use imagery to show that we see a parallel, even if it's not a perfect parallel
Brandon: We'll try not to show a pulsing motion where there really isn't one

Inviting co-conveners

Our letters should give a phone conversation as the next step
In the phone conversation, we should ask "Who would you really like to see at this event (if they were there, it would make you super excited about being there too)?"
Then ask them to invite those people (we'll help them put together the invitation)

The $6000 funding proposal

Since the update, one more person has put in their email but hasn't confirmed

Brandon ... I enjoyed talking to you ... I appreciate our diversity of ideas, and I agree that Gaia's Heartbeat would be a stronger video if it didn't take liberties with the way the world works
Ben ... The call was good overall. With the discussion of playing footage backwards, I felt like I was falling into an old pattern of being the contrarian that people wish they could ignore. In the end that seems to have resolved well and we got some other good stuff done.
Eric ... I don't know what I want to say ... there was nothing wrong with this call ... not every call has to be super great ... I love working with you guys