Thursday Agenda
- Check in
- Opening Blessing
- Project Work
- Ben: Create a Meetup for Shiny Green Acorn
- Ben: Work on application for holding an event at Tryon
- Eric: Write a blog post for Gaia’s People.
- Eric: Design Hobbit Holes
- Eric: Work on the idea of creating Gaia sculptures
- Eric: Go for quick swim in the pool <no can do; the pool is sick and being healed.>
- Evaluation
- Closing Blessing
Shiny Green Acorn Invitation
In the Earthseed novels that inspired the SolSeed Movement, the first Earthseed community was called Acorn. Drawing on this and other sources, and following up on the inspiration from our Shiny Green Festival last year, we're holding an Open Space unconference to playfully plan for a future ecovillage in the Portland area, a place for people to live and work together toward a future of Earth giving birth to a family of living worlds!
We'll spend much of the time at the existing Tryon Life Community Farm ecovillage, as well as other nearby locations that will help inspire our thinking. Activities will include building a small-scale 3D model of our initial ecovillage plan and an illustrated timeline of how we might build it, playing social-organization games, brainstorming ways to motivate ourselves to make dramatic life changes, and exploring Tryon and possibly other ecovillages in the area. Other opportunities to celebrate the occasion include canoeing/kayaking on the Willamette, joining the Providence Bridge Pedal, or attending the JamBallah belly dancing festival!
The event will be kid-friendly and flexibly scheduled to accommodate whatever participants want to do with the ecovillage concept. Attendance is free (except for other people's events like JamBallah) and some meals will be included, but we appreciate donations to help cover the costs for the event space.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Evaluation
- Eric … It was good to get close to finishing a blog post, even if it wasn't a terribly SolSeed blog post.
- Ben … I am really worried that the event won't work out, especially because Brandon and I are so tied up with stuff.
Closing Blessing
The journey is long, with many twists and bends, and it can often seem like we’re moving in the wrong direction or stuck in a quagmire, but we can only move forward with what we know of the path. And so may we learn more about how to make progress toward our highest aspirations. --Blessed Be