== Thursday Agenda ==
* Check in
* Opening Blessing
* Project Work
** <s>Brandon: Email Devera about the Gaia statues … contact the Portland Arts Council about the Gaia statues</s>
** Brandon: start writing a Gaian perspectives blogpost for Humanistic Paganism
** <s>Ben: Outline the Summer Newsletter</s>
** Ben: Find a photo of a big activist meeting for my latest blog post (made some progress)
** Ben: Work on the "[[SolSeed:The Book of Life|Gospel According to Ben]]"
** Ben: Do more work on the Shiny Green Festival notes
** Ben: listen to the Lovolution podcast
** Ben: Work on the hemisphere code
* Evaluation
* Closing Blessing
== Check In ==
* Brandon … My job search is going really well … yay!
* Ben … I don’t feel well, I’m sick … yuck!
== Opening Blessing ==
Who we are, and the blessings that we have received, and the suffering that we do, none of these can we own. We are shaped by chance, and we benefit from the bounty, the unbroken chain of ancestors that is billions of organisms long. May we hold our mortality, our triumphs, our existence lightly, and recognize it as a tremendous gift. May we be truly grateful. -- Blessed Be
== Summer Newsletter ==
* Eric's robot?
** Climbing trees to graft & harvest fruit
** Cool pneumatic mechanism w/ cheap, lightweight parts
** Then switched to hedgehog farming
* Shiny Green Festival
** Old & new friends
** The Spectacle Revealed!
** 4T Trail and the Grotto
* Worldcon?
* Gaia Statue Kickstarter planning
** Connecting with Devera
** Wrote intro and reward level ideas
** Need to make a video
* Autumn Equinox
** Industrial Cafe
** Pagan Pride
== Evaluation ==
* Ben … I’m feeling too depressed to be satisfied with the work, but I guess a made a little progress on a couple of things
* Brandon … I had a lot of fun on Sunday … I feel a lot of energy around SolSeed and the Gaia Statue project … I enjoyed working on that tonight and feel like I made some progress
== Closing Blessing ==
In darkness and in light, in sickness and in health, through good times and hard times we do the work. Only through persistence that does not get blocked by all these everyday obstacles can we achieve anything worthy of our highest aspirations. May we persist tenaciously and never give up. -- Blessed Be