### <s>Sunday</s> Thursday Agenda
- Check in
- Opening Blessing
- Review WWWs
- Weekly event logistics
- Review Agenda
- August Event
- Evaluation
- Closing Blessing
### Check In
- Brandon … We just had a picnic in the rain in our rain forest.
- Eric … A chipmunk fell in the pool today, but because there was no water, s/he didn't drown.
- Ben … I am sad that we can’t make progress on the Newsletter but heh it's a business meeting so that's ok.
### Opening Blessing
We come together to do the work, the work that leads in tiny steps from the here and now to the grand future, in the same way that the same work led from the first bacterium to the greatest sequoia. May this sense of history guide and inspire us. --Blessed Be
### WW(W)s from long ago
Organize the WW(W)s by person and then due date if desired. We’ll start checking in on topical community protocol and meditation for each mini-period between workbees. Holacracy founder Brian Robertson says these are bad: http://holacracy.org/blog/the-insanity-of-the-what-by-when
- Brandon … meditate regularly with Eric ... ongoing
- <s>Ben … meditate regularly with Eric ... ongoing</s>
- Ben … create a page on the SolSeed wiki for the Shaping Change Conference … by Thursday
- Ben … finish a draft of the newsletter … by Thursday
- <s>Eric … meditate regularly with Ben ... ongoing</s>
- Eric … meditate regularly with Brandon ... ongoing
### WW(W)s
- Brandon … meditate regularly with Eric ... ongoing
- Brandon … pay Ben for Shaping Change lodging … by Sunday
- Brandon … get spacewiki.com back up … by Sunday
- Brandon … create the Earthseed Meetup group … by Sunday
- Brandon … check cost of Tryon for 1 day vs 3 days
- Brandon … visit Tryon … (Sunday morning)
- Eric … meditate regularly with Ben ... ongoing
- Eric … meditate regularly with Brandon ... ongoing
- Eric … post the Uranium Rule blog post on Gaia’s People … someday soon
- Eric … choose one contractor for BuckleBerry entrance … any day now.
- Ben … meditate regularly with Eric ... ongoing
- Ben … create a page on the SolSeed wiki for the Shaping Change Conference
- Ben … finish a draft of the newsletter
- Ben … send out a notice that the newsletter will be late … by Thursday July 21st
### Weekly Events Logistics
Midweek
- July 14 Work-Bee: 6:30 PM PST / 21:30 EST
Weekend
Service rotation: Eric, Ben, Shelley, Brandon
- July 9 Service: 8:00 AM PST / 11:00 EST … Ben
- July 10 Business Call: 5:30 PM PST / 20:30 EST
### August event
#### Why
- Celebrate as a Solmunity + + +
- Plan Playfully + + +
#### Name and/or Focus Question ideas
- [How to] Be Acorn Now
- (but less primitive/survivalist)
- **Shiny Green Acorn** … selected!
- (image: an actual green acorn shining in the sun)
- (Ben: five fingers)
- Actually Achieving Acorn
- (Yay alliteration)
- What about Acorn Inspires Us?
- What about Acorn
- Focus question: It’s been 18 years since OEB published *Parable of the Talents*. What can we learn from Acorn? What do we envision for our Acorn-like ecovillage in the Portland area or elsewhere?
#### Where
- The Sanders' new place
- 4T Trail?
- Arboretum? … indoor space near the 4T Trail
- Marquam Shelter … on the 4T Trail, a 30 minute bus ride or [40 minute walk from Michelle's dancing event](https://www.google.ca/maps/dir/1515+Southwest+Morrison+Street,+Portland,+OR+97205,+USA/Marquam+Nature+Park,+Southwest+Marquam+Street,+Portland,+OR+97201,+United+States/@45.5121314,-122.6939692,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x54950a1cd8414475:0xf3f86d77c96604b5!2m2!1d-122.687298!2d45.5215628!1m5!1m1!1s0x54950a4ee2682a43:0x31c35776141af65d!2m2!1d-122.6917937!2d45.5028693!3e2), a good place to discuss the New Story
- Powell's City of Books? … could do this as part of the 4T Trail expedition
- Mother Earth School Campus at Tryon … it's an existing, well-established ecovillage
- Ecovillages in SE Portland? … demonstrate that you don't have to move into rural areas to do it
- On the Willamette in kayaks
#### When / Schedule
Thursday August 11th
- Eric and Michelle arrive at 8:40 PM PDT
Friday
- The Sanders other than Brandon will be unavailable; others we invite likely will also not make it for Friday
Friday or Saturday
- 4T Trail?
- Could just hang out at the Marquam Shelter, with a break for Michelle's performance
Friday or Sunday, or most of the event … Tryon Life Community Farm
- Should have a tour as an available session
- Would be good to have people from CampOma there
#### Activities
- Build an ecovillage model (kids: five fingers?)
#### Goals
- Viscerally connect the stewards of SolSeed
- Grow our community
- Develop our plans for a Portland ecovillage
- Develop our plans for the Buckleberry property (Ben: five fingers)
- Consider our strategy
- Consider more deeply how we relate to the ideas from Earthseed (Eric: five fingers)
- Consider how we relate to people of color who have a deep connection with Octavia Butler's works
- Consider how Buckleberry fits into the overall strategy
- Consider how a Portland ecovillage fits into the overall strategy
- Consider our tactics
#### Who
- Ola will not be leading an Earthseed service on Sunday morning August 14 … but we can still do an Earthseed service
- Ben: Should we try re-inviting her and paying a daily stipend?
- Eric: The event is 5 weeks away and we may not have the energy to make it a big enough event to justify a paid speaker
- Brandon: I would feel bad about asking her to come and then having just the three of us there with her … it's also not much time for her to plan for the trip
- Brandon: I want to connect more with other people in Portland
- SolSeed Portland Meetup members
- Gaia’s People Portland Meetup members
- The ecovillage people who have the property in Sandy? CampOma … http://www.meetup.com/db34e20e-4b93-4524-a259-7b84487b6e4f/
- Ben: What about John and his family?
- Brandon: Sure, we can invite them
### Evaluation
- Brandon … Had to leave a couple minutes early :(
- Ben … This feels like a bit of step back. But I also like that we chose a cool name for the event.
- Eric … It felt good to just meet with you guys, cause it's been a while since all three of us have been together and hasn't been frequent for a long time … and I'm getting excited for the event, I really like the ideas you guys have come up with for it
### Blessing
We came together to take some tiny steps. Two forward, one back, perhaps a few sideways. In this,we are only following the pattern of fits and starts that led from the first cells to our current world. May the pattern continue into a glorious multiplanetary future --Blessed Be