SeedVillage: Power, Decision-making, and Governance ... Basement Contractors Goals: SolSeed Goals
Agenda
- Check In
- Review WWWs
- Review Agenda
- Tabulate hours and $$ given to others
- Next Service Logistics
- SolSeed Meetup ... review description ... review potential event
- Winter Solstice
- Awakening Science Foundation report
- Video(s)
- One-Page Plan
- Kindred 2012
- Evaluation
Check In
- Ben ... spent most of today downtown ... tar sands rally, eating lunch next occupy city tent city (went to random interesting meeting followed by random interesting meeting) ... downtown until 5ish
- Sequoia ... right to bed because with the time change he is planning to be up at 5:30 ... photos today (characteristically adorable)
- Shelley ... feeling a little better, Brandon has supported me
- Brandon ... I feel good, have been working hard ... diligent
WWWs from last time
- <s>Brandon ... prepare reading for the service ... by Saturday
- Brandon ... add mention of space to Meetup intro text ... by next call
- Shelley ... nail down Seattle trip plans with Brandon and notify Ben ... by Tuesday
- Shelley ... pick a date for a Secular Families Meetup ... by next call</s>
- Ben ... create a Bioregenerative Life Support group on Facebook or LinkedIn ... by next call
WWWs
- Brandon ... cultivate 100yss community (to report back about) ... by next call
- Brandon ... recreate revised SolSeed Meetup description and send email ... by tonight
- Shelley ... ping Jerry about bringing the reading for the next service ... by tonight
- Shelley ... ask someone from Rose City Astronomers about seeing stars on the Solstice ... by next call
- Ben ... look up sunset time for the Solstice ... by next call
Tabulate hours and $$ given to others (not SolSeed) in the past week
- Ben: two activist rallies: Move Your Money Day and opposing the Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline
- Brandon and Shelley: 6 hours on Awakening Science Foundation, 10 minutes with NMC
Next Service Logistics
Saturday November 12, 2011 ... Jerry Rotation: Brandon, Jerry?, Shelley, Ben
SolSeed Meetup
First event: Dinner to introduce ourselves and discuss the SolSeed Movement
- Guests would help set out or clean up from the meal
- Start at 6:30, eat at 7
- Bits of ritual: standing behind our chairs, lighting candles, blessing
- To encourage thoughtful and deliberate discussion
- To separate it from ordinary life
- Ask questions during the meal
- Introduce SolSeed during dessert
- Placemats with talking points on them
- Avoid argumentativeness
- Ask people to consider attending a weekly service
Winter Solstice ideas
- Star party
- The main problem Brandon sees is that there might not be visible stars
- Hiking in the dark could be the main point
- Mt. Taber instead of Larch Mountain? (This would mean zero chance of seeing more than a few stars)
- Go to the planetarium at OMSI (would have to be afternoon, not evening)
- Put up glow-in-the-dark stars in Sequoia's room
- Yule log, yule tree, socializing, candles
- An actual service
- Seed topic: Darkness?
- Watch a Symphony of Science video, and/or an episode or two of Cosmos or When We Left Earth
- Unconference?
Evaluation
- Shelley ... we made some good headway
- Brandon ... I feel so muddled
- Ben ... sad that I didn't get to hear how ASF is doing