Agenda
- Check in
- Opening Blessing
- Review WWWs
- Weekly event logistics
- Year Plan
- Review Agenda
- New Videos
- Tactics Talk
- Evaluations
- Closing Blessing
Next business call
- Tactics Talk (in context of our strategy metaphor, roots, stalk, fruits)
- We Believe
- Year Plan
- Summer Solstice?
- Eclipse
- Trip to Canada
Check-in
- Eric … I got all the concrete board (more water-resistant than drywall) finished in the garage
- Ben … I have birds in my feeder, I am watching them right now, and a cat on my lap, and this afternooon I am going to a cuddle party.
Opening Blessing
We come together in the morning to do the work. We make the work part of our practice, and so create our lives in such a way that they are as aligned as we can achieve with our highest aspirations. May the work feel as satisfying as the service yesterday. --Blessed Be
WW(W)s from last time
Ongoing
- Brandon … Try for a streak of 3 days in a row with bedtime at 9:30 every night, wake up with alarm at 5:30
- Brandon … Meditate regularly (at least 3) with Eric
- Brandon … Coach regularly (at least 3) with Ted
- Ben … Send Brandon/Eric a video message each day about what I did and watch theirs
- Ben … meditate regularly with Eric
- Ben … spend at least 15 minutes a day on my story
- <s>Eric … Send Brandon/Ben a video message each day about what I did and watch theirs
- Eric … Work on Buckleberry or Auberge Paradis at least 15 minutes a day
- Eric … Meditate regularly with Ben</s>
- Eric … Meditate regularly with Brandon
- Eric … Practice viscerally connecting with Gaia at least once a week.
Time-specific
- Ben … buy a new copy of Seeing Nature … today
- <s>Ben … send Brandon the directions to my place … today</s>
- Ben … send Brandon some images from Pick a Future … by next call
WW(W)s
Ongoing
- Brandon … Try for a streak of 3 days in a row with bedtime at 9:30 every night, wake up with alarm at 5:30
- Brandon … Meditate regularly (at least 3) with Eric
- Brandon … Coach regularly (at least 3) with Ted
- Ben … Send Brandon/Eric a video message each day about what I did and watch theirs
- Ben … meditate regularly with Eric
- Ben … spend at least 15 minutes a day on my story
- Eric … Send Brandon/Ben a video message each day about what I did and watch theirs
- Eric … Work on Buckleberry or Auberge Paradis at least 15 minutes a day
- Eric … Meditate regularly with Ben
- Eric … Meditate regularly with Brandon
- Eric … Practice viscerally connecting with Gaia at least once a week.
Time-specific
- Ben … draft the Winter Newsletter … by next call
- Ben … update the News section … by next call
Weekly Events Logistics
Service rotation: Eric, Ben, Brandon, Rico, Shelley
- April 1 Service: 8:00 AM PST / 11:00 EST … Ben
- April 2 Business Call: 8:00 AM PST / 11:00 EST
Year Plan
May Day
- Ben wants to celebrate it on the weekend of May 6 and 7 in Portland.
- Eric will try to find a tree planting opportunity in Ottawa.
September trip
- Ben would be happy to go back to the Museum of Nature
- The Aviation and Space Museum is a good idea … they have simulators and biplane rides
- The Museum of Science and Technology doesn't repoen until November :-(
- Playing Martian Rails!
Videos
Eric's Life is Precious Video
- Ben is concerned that Eric's video spends too much time talking about the Mad Cow prion
- Eric: I was worrried about that too. I think I will edit that down
- Eric would like to say his narration while walking through the forest, with intercuts to illustrations of what he's talking about
- Ben: I would be happy to help with graphics and simple animations
- List
- How the Mad Cow prion works to refold other proteins
- A rock with a thought bubble saying "I don't care" (too silly?)
- A series of very short clips for each of the kingdoms of Life
- Riley catching a tennis ball over and over
- Earth from space
- Astronomical imagery: galaxies, stars
- Fire spreading or being "reproduced," e.g. a candle lighting another candle
- Buying something at a store
- Gold
- That clip from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (if we're not too worried about copyright)
- Ben: We have a page called Life is precious on the wiki; we could add the script there.
Brandon's Intro Video
- Ben … Could we talk about what we do more specifically than "regular, inspiring practice to change our lives and the world?"
Tactics
Blue-hatting
- Ben would like to add the new brainstorming ideas to the ones from our previous brainstorming session
White-hatting
Politics
- Start a Shiny Party that promotes science better than any existing party, as well as voting reform using ranked-choice ballots and auditable cryptographic proof of who's voting so we wouldn't have to trust the voting-machine companies. Also promotes ConsensusPolling and other methods for better decision making in a networked age.
- Embracing diversity by defending immigrant and refugee rights
- Meet with police leaders to express the need for rules that avoid making police the enemies of immigrants
- Hold/participate in an event to celebrate diverse cultures
Work on ways to preserve good things about civilization through a climate-disrupted dark age
- Work with the Long Now Foundation
- We could start an open-source collaborative project to build a tech tree like in Civilization-type games, but with instructions for how to really do it, and a focus on making the resulting civilization sustainable
Deepening our practices (internal audience)
- Work on a mechanism to have asynchronous services
- Work on stabilizing our new blog-writing practice and promoting our own blog
- Improving our celebrations, e.g. hold more events in places with dark skies so we can see lots of stars and the Milky Way
Recruiting (external audience)
- Re-start the book program (we have a bunch of PotS copies)
- Create one or more videos about the concept of Shiny Green
- Start with Brandon's pitch video
- Run YouTube adverts on Symphony of Science videos that point to our pitch video
- Create videos of us talking about our visions
- Create a Lauren Olamina page on Facebook and speak as the 7 year old Lauren Olamina (hopefully with the help of an actual black woman) … follow her life and journal as her
- Contact some possibly kindred people such as David Duemler
- Create a SolSeedian boy-scout-ish troop/pack
Place making (largely internal audience)
- Build a SolSeed temple
- Build a SolSeed shrine
- Build the Auberge Paradis and Buckleberry bed-and-breakfast resorts (external audience)
- Build a Gaia shrine at Buckleberry
- Start un-farming termites at Buckleberry
- Build an astronomy tower on top of the Hill at Buckleberry with a planetarium in it.
- Try un-farming goats at Buckleberry using fermented saw dust as feed.
Art (internal and external audience)
- Re-start the Gaia statue Kickstarter project
- Purchase the rights to the Millennial Gaia statue (make it public domain or creative commons)
- Hire a sculptor to create our own Gaia imagery, including multiple ages
- Build a big model of the Milky Way with many blue and yellow lights representing stars, and green lights that can be turned on to symbolize life spreading … maybe bring it to Burning Man
- Re-start the music video project for The Seed
- Start a new music video project, e.g. Rise Anew
- Make posters and t-shirts and sell them online … we could have a whole separate brainstorm about what imagery to create for these
- Create an online store where people can get music, story books, tee shirts, our books, gaia statues, service materials etc (start with a page of links)
Science fiction (external audience)
- Finish and publish Flight in a Cage
- Try to publish some of our short stories in science fiction magazines
- Apply for one of us to attend the Clarion West science-fiction writers workshop
- Hold a SolSeed discussion panel at a science fiction convention
Sharing our ideas (external audience)
- Write a series of blog entries commenting on and critiquing the developing SpaceX plans to colonize Mars from a Humanistic Pagan / Earthseed perspective
- Re-start the The Book of Life project / Write our own version of The Millennial Project
- Promote the Concerning AI podcast more to reach a wider audience
- Start a Kickstarter to print more copies of Happy in the Sun and start creating new kid's books about Empathy and Wisdom
- Blogging about our projects
- Create the series of videos starting with the Life is precious video
- Carl’s Religion Podcast
Research (external audience)
- Research the Simulation Hypothesis and possibly add simulism to our religion … write a paper explaining the objective evidence for it (if there is any) and how it could be falsified (or perhaps how the “we are not a simulation” hypothesis could be falsified).
- Do something related to the "reactionless" microwave thruster, e.g. an analysis of how much power it would take to move something big
- Publish an AI Paper
- Do some more simple CELSS experiments
Collaborating with Kindred
- Events
- Earthseed in person
- Atheo-pagan in person
- Spiritual Naturalists Society Gathering
- Partnership with the I Freaking Love Science Facebook page
- Connect with the PDX trans-humans meetup folks
- Partner with Trackers Earth
Organizational development
- Become a formal legal religious organization
- Start tracking our finances again
- Practice Holacracy
Evaluation
- Ben … I sort of wish we could have accomplished a little more but I am generally happy with what we did and excited to spend some time working on graphics in the near future for a video or two.
- Eric … I'm excited about making the Life is Precious video too, and making it the first in a series.
Closing Blessing
We are here in the present moment doing the work of planning for future work. This is good and necessary but we must move beyond it to doing the actual work. May we choose a path and then walk it. May the path lead us to our highest aspirations. -- Blessed Be