Agenda
- Check In
- Review WWWs
- Review Agenda
- Weekly Events Logistics
- Solstice
- Menu
- Theme
- Book
- Evaluation
Check In
- Brandon ... sick
- Shelley ... we got our Christmas/Yule tree today ... it's out on the car getting rained on
- Ren ... also sick
- Eric ... I'm good, glad to be in the basement where I can't see how gray and rainy and cold it is
- Ben ... Sad that my internet is down which is why I am giving you guys a virtual tour of Seattle. Did see a good movie about an hour ago at the Pacific Science Center (.1 km behind me) with exploding butterflies which I emailed Paul Krafel about.
- Sequoia ... zzz
WWWs from last time
- Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- <s>Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben ... reserve frickin' bus tickets ... by next call
- Shelley ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Shelley ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Eric... learn about the Git command line ... by next call</s>
WWW
- Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon ... order some larger rocket motors ... by next call
- Brandon ... get a rocket to pass (speaking object?) ... by next call
- Brandon ... spend 1 hour on the book ... by next call
- Shelley ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Shelley ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Shelley ... plan out when to buy, when to cook for each menu item ... by next week
- Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Eric ... make a substantive commit on the book ... by next call
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben ... make a substantive commit on the book ... by next call
Weekly Events Logistics
Service Saturday December 8, 9 am PST 12:00 EST ... (Brandon) Saturday December 15, we'll try 3:30 pm PST 18:30 EST (Eric) Rotation: Brandon, Eric, Shelley, Ben
Work-Bee Sunday December 9, 1:30 pm PST 16:30 EST
In-person service with Vliets: Saturday 10:30 am Seeing Nature Readings and Practices: None this week, next is December 16th.
Solstice
- Likely to be a small, intimate gathering
- No paper invitations this year
Menu
- Broccoli
- Salad (special!)
- Yams
- Dressing with cranberry chutney
- Squash stuffed with wild rice
- Rolls
- Seasonal Nog
- Pumpkin Pie with Ice Cream and real whipped cream
- Apple Pie
- Martinellis
- Coffee ... decaff and caff
- Other hot drinks
- Hot mulled cider
Theme
- Decorations
- Little rocket ships hung from the ceiling on a chain like a garland (after we launched them earlier that day)
- Woodsy things like holly
- Yule tree ... put rocket engines on it?
- http://www.telovation.com/photos/christmas-tree-rocket.jpg
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LgDvwMfnak
- Enlist Carol and Vicki's help for the conversation
- Start light, but eventually deepen the conversation
- Start out with things that each person will no doubt have a story that goes with it
- "Tell us about a time when you ..."
- But then move into deeper conversation, like what we want for ourselves and our community(ies)
- Have the table as one conversation for much of the evening
- Have several topics set out ahead of time
- Darkness and light
- Space travel
- What important things have happened this year
- What directions do we see ourselves sending our "rockets"
- Any physical places we want to go e.g., 'Algonquin'
- What is your launching pad (where do you feel safest to vision and dream)?
- What journey are you on, and what journey would you like to be on?
- Participatory event (possibly to start the evening)
- Everyone has a new glass of martinellis to drink ... pour contents back into the punch bowl ... all our thoughts, wishes, etc are mingled in this bowl ... and then we re-dish out
- Symbolic words when pouring for each other, e.g. "We bring life to you"
Book
- Brandon likes starting with "A Book of Life, v0.1" and letting it continue to grow
- Could we eventually include Seeing Nature and even the Parables books?
- Eric needs to know how to copy and paste in Powershell
Evaluation
- Shelley ... I feel good about our decision to deepen the conversation at dinner and our method for doing so ... I also feel good that Ren just fell asleep
- Ben ... I feel distracted, find it difficult to hear people and concentrate with noise and frustrated. (Shelley wishes you a healed internet soon)
- Brandon ... I just want to work on dubdubs and heal myself. (Ben wishes you a healed self soon)
- Eric ... I feel like I'm going to git up this learning curve soon (Shelley: did he say he's coming to visit soon?) I'm hoping to add this conversation piece to my end of things (possibly to the wine-and-cheese portion)