Agenda
- Check In
- Review WWWs
- Weekly Events Logistics
- Review Agenda
- GaiasHeartbeat
- Solstice
- SolSeed Soundbite
- Funding:
- Children International
- Evaluation
Check In
- Brandon ... excited about my galaxy plate, and about the Gaia's Heartbeat video ... also eager for my lip to heal from a basketball injury
- Ben ... good news: pretty sure that the people moving the fuel rods aren't going to trigger an insane radio-active release ... bad news: if a major earthquake happens while they are still moving them
WWWs from last time
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben ... think about funding structures (and specifically the Children International funding)
- <s>Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing</s>
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- <s>Brandon ... think about funding structures (and specifically the Children International funding)</s>
- Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Eric ... think about funding structures (and specifically the Children International funding)
WWWs
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben ... think about funding structures and put together a simple proposal ... by next call
- Ben ... sign up for Children International ... by today
- Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon ... finalize the solstice with Shelley ... by Monday
- Brandon ... sign up for Children International ... by next call
- Brandon ... check in with John about the song ... by next call
- Brandon ... create the next version of his galaxy plate ... by next call
- Shelley ... sign up for Children International ... by next call
- Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Eric ... think about funding structures (and specifically the Children International funding)
- Eric ... sign up for Children International ... by next call
Weekly Events Logistics
Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben
- November 23 Service: 9:00 am PDT (12:00 EDT) (Brandon on his birthday!)
- November 30 Service: 9:00 am PDT (12:00 EDT) (Ben)
- November 24 Work-Bee: 1:30 pm PDT (16:30 EDT)
- November 17 Seeing Nature Readings and Practices (Ottawa): 13:00 EST
Solstice
- Shelley is arranging the Music Together teacher to come, bring instruments etc, and lead the singing
- Winter solstice is at 9:11am on December 21st (Saturday)
Saturday December 21st Schedule:
- 9:11am (during the service ... mark the Solstice)
- prep for the solstice
- 6:00-6:30pm start the music part of the party
- 6:30-6:45pm break for refreshments (relish trays with cheese and crackers, cider, etc)
- 6:45-7:15pm more music
- 7:15- mingle and refreshments
- 9:00- sleep by the solstice tree
Other Ideas:
- Optional before-6 trip to Mount Tabor (like last year) ... try to watch the sunset at 4:19pm?
- Cool if we could include the "Psalm of Solstice" from Hymnody of Earth
- Also "When the winter comes we gather"
Guest List:
- 2,2 Brandon, Shelley, Sequoia, Ren
- 3,0 Ben, Steve, Judy
- 2,2 Laura, Jesus, Diego, Sylvio
- 1,0 Molly
- 2,0 Carol and Vicki
- 2,2 Sarvatas
- 1,0 Jillian or Betsy
- 13,6 (Total: 13 adults, 6 children)
SolSeed Soundbite
- Ben: "SolSeed is a tiny quasi-religious movement. We believe that all life is precious, and that we should help it thrive, grow, and spread to the stars." Meets the DFA criteria of 27 words, 9 seconds, 3 points.
- Thinking about using Eric's "agnostic religion"
- Brandon: "SolSeed is a cosmic Wisdom Tradition whose central tenet is that Life, in all its messiness, is worthy of veneration. We seek to express Life's vitality through our practice, both individual and collective."
- Eric: "SolSeed is an agnostic religion. We believe that all Life is precious, that we should nurture lives, help Life thrive on Earth, and spread to the stars."
- We call it SolSeed ... but that word is supposed to mean the body of all life. We are using it in these soundbites to refer to our movement.
- How weird would it be to say "The SolSeed Movement is an agnostic religion"?
Children International
- Brandon: Are we doing this individually, or pulling funds from the shared pool?
- Can we create a shared account to automatically fund this (and serve as our shared SolSeed money pool)?
- We'd need an official organization, which may cost $500-$1000 per year in directors' liability and general liability insurance
- Eric is in a club, a community association, and a community garden project, and each of them is struggling with funding these insurance policies
- Brandon: Having a huge percentage of Eric's tithe go to Children's International before it even "gets to the virtual pool" doesn't seem right to me
- Eric: We could temporarily just send our tithes to Brandon
- Brandon: I don't feel great about that either ... it doesn't feel wise to do that with any one member
- Brandon: We could set up an account for which I act as custodian but the statements go to Ben or Eric
- Pretend we have an organization, so we can practice for when we eventually officially do so ... this would involve officers (President, Secretary, Treasurer)
- Ben thinks this would be a good idea to do at some point ... this might not be the right time
- Brandon: Another alternative: We all keep our money, but Shelley and Brandon pay for all four of the Children International projects, and Ben and Eric would pay for something else in the future
- Eric: Children International USA may be confused by a donation that says to send the mail to a Canadian address
- Shelley thought this was kind of silly, and Ben thinks it's "virtually equivalent" since Eric is still considered to be contributing to this project from the virtual pool
- Brandon agrees that it would be cumbersome to redistribute the materials from "Ben's" and "Eric's" sponsee child from the Sanders to Ben and Eric
Evaluation
- Brandon: I enjoyed being with you
- Ben: Kind of relieved that we are not tackling some sort of complex funding scheme immediately, because it sounded tricky to manage.