Agenda
- Check in
- Review WWWs
- Daily Practice
- Weekly event logistics
- Review Agenda
- Newsletter images
- Project work
- Eric: Sermon!!!!
- Eric: Rotate the Duck Weed and Record its progress
- Eric: Update the Finance Spreadsheet
- Ben: Newsletter images
- Evaluation
Parking lot
- Newsletter check-in
Check-in (gratinews)
- Eric … getting pretty excited about my sermon … I took yesterday off work so I could practice it and work on it
- Ben … I'm having fun working on my story, Flight in a Cage and I actually meditated this morning on the bus.
WWWs
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben ... try to finish images for the newsletter ... by next call
- Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Eric … photograph the various equipment for the liturgical season services and send to Ben for his collage … by next Sunday October 12
- Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
Daily Practice
- https://tdp.me/person/brandon-cs-sanders
- https://tdp.me/person/EricOfSolseed
- https://tdp.me/person/SciFiBen
Weekly Events Logistics
Weekend Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben
- October 4 Service: 9:00 AM PDT, 12:00 EDT (Ben)
- October 5 Work-Bee: 5:30 PM PDT, 20:30 EDT
Midweek
- October 9 Work-Bee: 6:30 PM PDT, 21:30 EDT
Newsletter images
Our outreach efforts are starting to bear fruit! We're now in contact with Dr. Michael Mautner of the Interstellar Panspermia Society, whose goal is to send simple lifeforms to kick-start evolution in newly-formed star systems across the Milky Way. Clearly, we all need to read his book! I also took a trip to southern Washington State to renew our contacts with the Windward intentional community, which seeks to model sustainable ways of life that work with nature rather than against it. And Eric recently joined the blogging community on the Humanistic Paganism website, with a beautiful first entry about why he loves the SolSeed Movement.
- Ben: Should I use the logos for these groups?
- Eric: If we link to them, it's free advertising … Dr. Mautner wants us to link to him
Eric's main point in that post is about the value of shared religious practice, so it's particularly appropriate that we've just completed our first liturgical year, a sequence of eight Sabbath rituals that celebrate the evolution of life, intelligence, and space colonization. The two "liturgical seasons" of summer celebrate the origin of humanity and the rise of civilization, thus setting the stage for the futuristic stories of autumn in which life expands to take root on worlds across the solar system, the galaxy, and ultimately the wider universe.
- Ben: Should I put together 8 images representing the whole liturgical year?
- Eric: That would be wonderful, but would it end up delaying the newsletter?
- Ben: We've got some time if we're okay with our usual release timing
- Eric: Question remains, “Can you do it in about a month?”
- Ben: Simple backup plan: photo of a candle
- Eric: I could send you photos of things I've made and you could make a collage
Evaluation
- Eric … it was fun spending an hour listening to our two songs over and over as I made various copies of CDs and tested them
- Ben … It is going to be a long haul to put together the 8 images we need to represent the liturgical seasons, but I will keep trying for a bit.