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Not sure what yesterday's problem with the phone was that siblings couldn't hear me -- maybe wifi reception where i was sitting? as i was using the wifi and not cell signal. But i used it as the signal to buy a phone NOW and not wait to see if there's a sale in June. I didn't quite make three years with the same phone, which is disappointing.
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NY Times is full in on vaccinated people doing whatever they want, "The vaccine virtually eliminates serious versions of Covid-19 and radically reduces the chances you could contract or spread the virus. For you, Covid is akin to a mild flu that you probably won’t get. You are not at any meaningful risk from a maskless person in the supermarket who may or may not be vaccinated. You face much more danger from the vehicles in the parking lot."
I really really wish we had better data about Long COVID in vaccinated people.
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Meeting for Business yesterday, one more to go. We now have video surveillance outside of the Meeting House with hardly a moment of reflection. When i suggested holding over - we were running late, some folks hadn't heard of the cause of the surveillance -- someone shouted, "No."
This prioritization is in line with my understanding of the goals of the community -- maintaining the historic meeting house. Whether surveillance is welcoming or not part of the consideration.
Next month is my last meeting for business.
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I spent hours after meeting for business untangling feelings about my brother's situation and my sister's judgements about my parents. I think i'm coming down with seeing a balance of happiness vs by-the-book. I hope my sister and i can have some discussions with people with experience who can help us navigate choices.
I also did a "Experiment with Light" meditation. I do need to practice to get back to a hour of silent meditation.
I eventually made it outside -- the day had been cool. I broke more ground for planting in the drive circle -- So. Much. Driveway gravel. mixed into the remarkably nice soil. I don't think it will bother the basil and ground cherries. I put in a few okra before remembering some deer do eat okra. We'll see how these plants manage.
I've a bunch of impulse purchase plants to get in, and two more trays of seedlings.
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NY Times is full in on vaccinated people doing whatever they want, "The vaccine virtually eliminates serious versions of Covid-19 and radically reduces the chances you could contract or spread the virus. For you, Covid is akin to a mild flu that you probably won’t get. You are not at any meaningful risk from a maskless person in the supermarket who may or may not be vaccinated. You face much more danger from the vehicles in the parking lot."
I really really wish we had better data about Long COVID in vaccinated people.
--== ∞ ==--
Meeting for Business yesterday, one more to go. We now have video surveillance outside of the Meeting House with hardly a moment of reflection. When i suggested holding over - we were running late, some folks hadn't heard of the cause of the surveillance -- someone shouted, "No."
This prioritization is in line with my understanding of the goals of the community -- maintaining the historic meeting house. Whether surveillance is welcoming or not part of the consideration.
Next month is my last meeting for business.
--== ∞ ==--
I spent hours after meeting for business untangling feelings about my brother's situation and my sister's judgements about my parents. I think i'm coming down with seeing a balance of happiness vs by-the-book. I hope my sister and i can have some discussions with people with experience who can help us navigate choices.
I also did a "Experiment with Light" meditation. I do need to practice to get back to a hour of silent meditation.
I eventually made it outside -- the day had been cool. I broke more ground for planting in the drive circle -- So. Much. Driveway gravel. mixed into the remarkably nice soil. I don't think it will bother the basil and ground cherries. I put in a few okra before remembering some deer do eat okra. We'll see how these plants manage.
I've a bunch of impulse purchase plants to get in, and two more trays of seedlings.
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Do you think the meeting (more broadly conceived) is aware of that priority?
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The building has provided some of the tension during the pandemic and illustrated the value of building over Quaker process. After a Meeting for Business decision to meet inside the fellowship hall (which has cross ventilation due to multiple opening windows and a new hvac) only due to bad weather, the first time there was bad weather the on-site folks met in the meeting house. This was distressing to a number of us, for me the, "Meeting doesn't have the right, it should be up to whomever is present" attitude, that didn't take into account the decision making someone might be making to decide to come. Nor did it reflect any sense that when a meeting decision was made it was anything more than a secular decision. Individuals communicated to me their sense that where we did the worship wasn't an important decision. (I choked on my sense of this being a decision of life or death for some people.)
Because i itched at the idea of a minuted decision that was being disregarded, i presented it as obviously not the sense of the meeting, and we changed the decision to be that we moved to inside for bad weather "at the location chosen by the onsite support." The not-in-the-meetinghouse people just didn't offer support (or atten on site) during the winter. And then this spring people met inside the meeting house during good weather. We then had a discussion about going back inside, and it was clear there wasn't unity and that the meeting inside folks weren't listening to others. The amount of me me me -- "My spiritual life is grounded inside that building" -- with no acknowledgement as to others health concerns was ... not encouraging.
The building is taken care of with little or no formal coordination: various folks just show up and do things. A large gift was given to get some landscaping done with no serious discussion in the Meeting. People serve the building.
The meeting does want to be welcoming and noncreedal but really looking into welcoming and building community isn't a first goal.
My suspicion is that the building and grounds is such a fundamental value that no one would articulate it because it's a given.
I'll admit that the springs on site were significant in my sense of returning and continuing: i can believe the place may have a supernatural quality. However, if i'm going to invest in place, it's going to be the place i am creating here at my home.
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And I suspect that the bad job we humans typically do in acknowledging and handling being material and also mental and spiritual doesn't help one bit.