Agenda
- Check In
- Review WWWs
- Review Agenda
- Weekly Events Logistics
- Winter Solstice
- Book
Check In
- Ren ... eeehhh
- Sequoia ... zzzZZZzzz
- Patrick ... tap tap tap (video game)
- Shelley ... ahhh, <laughs> I'm well thank you, ahhh
- Petra ... purrrr
- Ben ... feeling accomplished and also at the same time really worried at the stuff I still have to do
- Eric ... crazy busy weekend, lots of fun, but I didn't get a lot of things done that needed doing ... uhh, so oh well
- Brandon ... I'm sleepy and I'm in a funk (not a bad funk, more of a funklet) ... I finished 44 weeks of weight loss and lost 43 pounds.
WWWs from last time
- <s>Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s>
- Brandon ... order some larger rocket motors ... by next call
- Brandon ... get a rocket to pass (speaking object?) ... by next call
- <s>Brandon ... spend 1 hour on the book ... by next call
- Shelley ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Shelley ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s>
- Shelley ... plan out when to buy, when to cook for each menu item ... by next week
- <s>Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s>
- Eric ... make a substantive commit on the book ... by next call (I plead the fifth)
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- <s>Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben ... make a substantive commit on the book ... by next call</s>
WWWs
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon ... take some pictures of the hard copy of the book ... by next call
- Brandon ... go shopping for the Solstice ... Tuesday the 18th and Thursday the 20th
- Shelley ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Shelley ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Shelley ... seek to change attending block around the summer solstice ... by next call
Summer Solstice
- Algonquin Park in Ontario: booking opens in February and fills up within a month
- Sometimes there are a lot of blackflies at the time of the Solstice ... midsummer might be better
Weekly Events Logistics
Service Saturday December 15, 3:30 pm PST 18:30 EST (Eric) Rotation: Brandon, Eric, Shelley, Ben Work-Bee Sunday December 16, 1:30 pm PST 16:30 EST In-person service with Vliets: Saturday 9:30 am Seeing Nature Readings and Practices: next is December 16th.
Winter Solstice
Menu
buy everything not otherwise noted on 14th
- Broccoli for 8-12 people (buy on 20th)
- Salad (special!) (clementines, avocado, parmesan) buy on 20th
- Yams (12) (monday)
- Dressing with cranberry chutney (monday)
- Squash stuffed with wild rice
- Rolls (thursday or friday)
- Seasonal Nog
- Pumpkin Pie (thursday) with Ice Cream and real whipped cream (friday)
- Apple Pie (thursday)
- Martinellis
- Coffee ... decaff and caff
- Other hot drinks
- Hot mulled cider
When to make stuff
- Monday: Dressing and chutney, yams, squash
- Thursday: Pies, rolls?
- Friday: Salad, broccoli, rolls?, whipped cream
Schedule
- Thursday the 20th
- Sanders prepare for rockets and dinner
- Sanders pack for trip to Canby
- Ben arrives from Portland 10:30 PM
- Friday the 21st (Solstice)
- Ben will come down to Portland on Friday morning if it's not Thursday evening
- Maybe some fun in the morning, e.g. a trip to OMSI
- Launch rockets starting at 3:30 PM
- Eat at 6 PM
- Saturday the 22nd (Sabbath)
- Service as usual at 9 AM PST, 12 EST
- Ben needs to be at PDX by 11 AM on Saturday December 23
- Will probably take the MAX, which takes about half an hour
Guest list for dinner
- Carol (yes) & Vicki
- Malinda & Sergio (yes)
- Forest (Shelley and Sequoia made him a personalized paper invite)
- Mathew & Molly
- Gus
- Hank (said Maybe)
- Amber
- Ben
- Shelley, Brandon, Sequoia, Ren
- Mickki
Guest list for Rockets
- Ted, Celeste, Max, Shogi
- Mathew & Molly
- Gus
- Hank
- Amber
Book
- Brandon likes starting with "A Book of Life, v0.1" and letting it continue to grow
- Could we eventually include Seeing Nature and even the Parables books?
- Eric needs to know how to copy and paste in Powershell
- Audience: Is this book the big book, or a targetted book for outreach?