Agenda
- Check in
- Opening Blessing
- Review WWWs
- Review agenda
- Weekly event logistics
- Year Plan
- Imbolc
- Eric's Win-Win with Michelle
- Year Plan Continued
- Spring Equinox
- Evaluations
- Closing Blessing
Next business call
- Year Plan
- Imbolc/Riverrain
- Equinox
- Create Meetup invitation for Equinox
- SolSeed Creed
- New Videos
Check-in
- Ben …I am worried because I am trying to balance a number of things related to SolSeed, Star Community and my own well being.
- Brandon … I don't know my own address! Trying to buy tickets for Sam Harris's live recording of his podcast … okay, I’ve got 3 tickets in the second row!
- Elon (not actually present) ... I've finally announced a date for the first Falcon Heavy launch: February 6th … it will put a Tesla Roadster in a heliocentric orbit … meanwhile I'm selling flame throwers to finance the Boring Company, and Eric is tempted to buy one because it's so stupid
- Eric ... There's nothing interesting happening in my life, that's why I gave an Elon checkin instead
- Shawn (not actually present) ... I am planting trees at the coast.
Opening Blessing
Here we are, three souls seeking a better world. May we support each other, through the comfort and connection that we feel for each other, in reaching for that better world. Go team! --Blessed Be
WW(W)s from last time
- <s>Ben … get last week's notes onto the wiki … by today
- Ben … find out if it makes sense to go to the second day of the Star Community Transparency Summit … by tomorrow
- Ben … consider who I'd want to invite to an unconference … by next call
- Ben … explore the possibility of holding a March 24-25 unconference at a Star Community house … by next call</s>
- <s>Brandon … invite the Sarvatas to Imbolc … by today
- Brandon … post Imbolc on the Meetups … by today
- Brandon … check with Shelley about how to make the March 24th weekend work … by next week</s>
- Brandon … consider who I'd want to invite to an unconference … by next call
- Shawn … consider who I'd want to invite to an unconference … by next call
WW(W)s
- Brandon … ask Shelley if she'll put together the Imbolc ceremony … by today
- Brandon … talk to Shelley about dates for the unconference that would work for her … by today
- Brandon … freeze my fossils … by Saturday
- Ben … freeze my fossils … by Saturday
- Eric ... freeze my fossils ... today! Or by Saturday.
Weekly Events Logistics
Service rotation: Eric, Ben, Shawn, Brandon, (Rico), Shelley
- Feb 3rd Service: 8:20 PM PST / 23:20 EST … Eric
- Feb 4th Business Call: cancelled due to holiday
Year Plan
Imbolc/Riverrain/RockSolidFrozenOttawaRiver
Date: Saturday February 3rd, 8:21pm PST / 23:21 EST
- Ben might end up doing the hike on Friday rather than Saturday due to the Star Community Transparency Summit … or might just do it this afternoon!
- Eric: I added the event to my Gaia's People Meetup group (currently has 130 members) and I think I'll share it to Facebook right now!
- Brandon: I'll ask Shelley to design a ritual for us to do in the park
- Ben: Maybe you could take a video of it to share with us later
Eric's Win/Win with Michelle
We each have a different plan for where we're going in our lives
- Michelle would like to be a rural minister in the United Church
- I want to do something like Buckleberry, but there's no guarantee that she could find a post near Buckleberry
So we've agreed that she'll find a rural post in a place where I can find another piece of land to buy and build on
- I probably won't buy the land until I retire in five years
- She'll be given a place to live at her posting, and I can live there while building on my new land
- To make this affordable, I'm canceling the hobbit holes at Buckleberry (at least in the short term) and building a tiny house instead
- Early design direction: a dorm room with bunk beds, small kitchen and bathroom, and large entrance hall that doubles as a sitting area or something
- We'll probably sell Auberge Paradis when I retire, either that or rent it out
Year Plan continued
Spring Equinox
Date: Tuesday March 20th, 9:15am PDT / 12:15 EDT
- Ben: Spoke with Rachel at Ryan House. She sees no reason why it wouldn't work to hold the unconference there, but we would need to send a proposal saying about how many people we expect, how much space we would use, how long, and plans for food, whether brought in or use kitchen, plans for ensuring that residents of the house can come and go during the event. If anyone wanted to sleep over, they would want to know that too.
- Brandon: We need to make a decision quickly. Let me talk to Shelley again and try to talk her into it. She will be coming back from a trip late at night the Friday before the event. That goes against our effort to create space in our lives and not feel like we're always rushing from one thing to another.
- Could we change the dates?
- The weekend of March 31st is farther from the equinox...and Michelle has an appointment that day that's far away.
- What about the spring cross-quarter?
- Michelle and Patrick are leaving that weekend to fly to Japan (she wanted to spend more than a week there)
- Eric will likely have an hour of work to do on the morning of Saturday May 5th due to a software release on Star Wars Day
- Shelley's birthday is May 7th, and she's often done a triathlon that weekend
Evaluation
- Brandon … Grumpy
- Eric … I'm energized about SolSeed right now
- Ben … Sad about next weekend because I can't participate much.
Closing Blessing
Here we are, three kindred spirits seeking a way forward that leads towards the world we want. We have been seeking this for a long time. May we find joy in the search rather than frustration at not having found what we seek. May we persevere. -- Blessed Be