Agenda
- Check In
- Review WWWs
- Review Agenda
- Next Calls' Logistics
- Summer Solstice trip
- Camping gear
- Solstice ceremony
- Triathlon
- Village
- Evaluation
Check In
- Ben ... maybe should have gotten more sleep last night
- Shelley ... pretty tired, ... might sign off after I get done with the menu
- Brandon ... weird mood that i don't understand, but a little depressed
WWWs from last time
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- <s>Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s>
- Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- <s>Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon ... confirm that we have drum(s) for the Solstice ceremony ... by next call
- Brandon ... send out copies of The Righteous Mind to everyone we have addresses for ... by next call
- Shelley ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Shelley ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s>
- Brandon and Shelley ... buy the food and food-related supplies for the Solstice events ... by June 19
- Brandon and Shelley ... make sure we have stall markers, flour, <s>cones, and trash bags/cans for the triathlon</s> ... by June 19
- Brandon and Shelley ... inform invitees to the triathlon about the potluck if you haven't already ... by next call
- Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing (?)
- Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing (?)
- Eric ... order the awards for participation ... by tonight (?)
- <s>Eric ... prepare and email us a presentation to explain the triathlon symbolism ... by Wednesday</s>
WWWs
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben ... look up interesting points in prehistory for the Solstice ceremony ... by Tuesday
- Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon ... arrange to rent a uhaul trailer ... by Tuesday
- <s>Brandon ... order the flag tapey things for stalls ... by tonight</s>
- Brandon ... follow up with Hank and Nick about Sol2012 ... by tonight
- Brandon ... send out invite reminder for Sol2012 asking people to bring own tableware ... by tonight
- <s>Brandon ... email Jeff about the triathlon ... by tonight</s>
- Brandon ... talk to the neighbors about picking up the t-shirts ... tomorrow
- Brandon ... talk to neighbors about watching the cats ... tomorrow
- Shelley ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Shelley ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Shelley ... call Brenna to arrange sleeping at her house for Shelley if camping is too hard ... by Monday
- Shelley ... buy strawberries ... by Monday
- Shelley ... email Laura, Alyssa, and Emily the details of the triathlon ... by tonight
Weekly Events Logistics
Service Saturday June 23, 9am PDT, (Eric) Rotation: Brandon, Eric, Jerry?, Shelley, Ben
Work-Bee: skipping next week, week after TBD
In-person service June 16, when the Vliets arrive at the coast In-person Ottawa service --Cancelled this week
Solstice
Camping gear
- Ted and Celeste need a sleeping mat ... they can figure it out
Timing
- The Sanders may leave around 10 AM on Wednesday, pick up Ben at 10:30ish
- On Sunday we'll try to leave at 8:40 AM, get to the lake at 9, race starts at 10
Solstice ceremony
Safety issues with spraying water on heated metal
- Maybe do a test run
- How to apply the water?
- Eric suggested a hose with a spray attachment
- Brandon suggests soaking a paintbrush and flicking water off of it
Represent deep time with the drums
- 100,000 years per beat?
Next steps
Triathlon
- <s>Order T-shirts
- Numbers to wear
- Numbers for bikes
- Grease pencils for numbers on legs
- Stall markers (perhaps plastic flag tape stuff)</s>
- Flour markers (to mark the route)
- <s>Map of the route (scouted)</s>
- Fondue fixins
- <s>Fondue pots (4-6)
- Skewers (need barbed skewers)</s>
- Chocolate to melt (fondue chocolate ... just milk chocolate, chocolate chips ... huge bags)
- Blueberries, strawberries, grapes, jube jubes?, apples (turn brown quickly), chopped pears
- Plates (plastic?)
- Cups
- Napkins
- <s>Trash bags/cans</s>
- Mac and Cheese
- Invite people to bring potluck (maybe already done?)
- Awards (ribbons for everyone with medals on them) (this week)
- Explanation of the stages (why swim, run, bike) (this week)
- Support staff? (Ben can direct people etc, Eric can be an informal lifeguard)
- <s>Cones</s>
- Air horn
Retreat
- Food
- Menus
- Plates, cups, napkins, tableware
- Shopping
- <s>Make sure everyone has tents</s>
- Solstice ceremony
- Brass sun object
- Firewood (can probably buy it at the campground)
- Tongs or other mechanism to manipulate the brass sun object? (probably unnecessary)
- <s>Drums
- Paintbrushes</s>
- Test run for safety
- Make sure we're prepared to facilitate the Open Space
- <s>Paper and pens for agenda</s>
Triathlon invitation
You're invited to YayLifeTri! Sunday June 24 Vancouver Lake Park 9:30am gather, 10:00am race, potluck after $3 parking, meet at the beach
Shelley and I are organizing a mini triathlon "YayLifeTri" out at Vancouver Lake on Sunday morning June 24. It is meant for families with small children. The swim is 100m in the shallows (wading rather than swimming is great!). The run is 400m (jogging strollers are great!). The bike is 1500m (tag-alongs and baby carrier bike seats/trailers are great!). It should be a fun way to introduce kids to the excitement of a race (complete with numbers, and a transition area) in a safe, low-key environment. All participants will receive a free tee shirt (see attached image) and some kind of award (TBD).
This year is a trial run, so we are only inviting close friends to participate (there will probably be some oversights in the planning). If it goes well, we'll make it into an annual event and publicize it. The race starts at 10am and will be followed up with a potluck lunch including chocolate fondue. We will provide water, pasta, salad, and fondue with fruit to dip.
This is a free event sponsored by the SolSeed Movement, to celebrate the Summer Solstice and the evolution of life from out of the seas (the swim), onto the land (the run), and finally the development of technology (the bike). Hence the non-traditional order of events.
Evaluation
- Shelley ... feeling put out that this takes so much work ... want a personalized thank you note from everyone for my hard work ... not feeling generous
- Brandon ... I feel fine
- Ben ... what we've been going through tonight is a clear indicator that we need to start planning for big events further in advance if at all possible, feels like we're rushed and stressed and we'll probably get it all together but it's harder than it needs to be