(quaker notes, reading notes, yard)

[elainegrey]

Quaker notes: I made it through the week with a Thursday evening given over for hours to writing up comments about the organizations' structure, naming the two persons who are difficult to work with. I posted it to people who i had asked for personal support, people with whom i was in discussion, and others involved with the business meetings.  I think i was fair.  On Friday evening i had a very long phone call with one person, and then found i had received a lovely supportive email from another.

Thursday there was yet more evidence of people who just aren't organized  -- which, you know, i am one of too - -showing up for a nonexistent meeting on Thursday night. I think one of the hard to work with people had triggered this by assuming there was a meeting.

But maybe they're not merely disorganized. Some aspect about this is that a number of us have email that gets flagged as spam, it seems. I am not sure i understand why. I've done what i could for my own domain name, and almost everyone else is a gmail account. I suppose some folks have very long signatures.... it's not a help when communication is fraught.

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Yesterday i worked in the yard, clearing a thatch of stilt grass, pulling up honeysuckle and young autumn olive, and revealing ferns, moss, and some patches of a wild grass i like.  I think i could mow this area of stilt grass come fall: claiming one more stretch. I realize it's time to plant potatoes and the whole garden plot is still a thatch of stilt grass. I am glad i decided not to veggie garden so much this year.

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Yesterday afternoon i read Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I was struck by the four names that Tchaikovsky used over and over to identify the persons in the evolving species: Portia, Bianca, Fabian, and Viola.   I checked, and yes, they were names Shakespeare used. Viola is in the same play as Fabian; Fabian resonates with the plot for me. I understand the cycle of names starts with Portia for a different reason. It was hard to believe the names were coincidence, so i asked! And got a quick answer! "I was mostly guided by my subconscious after starting with Portia and deciding to pillage Shakespeare for names. Although Fabian has always been a favourite bit-part for me."

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With a good time in the yard and then rest reading, i am hoping to get a bunch of little things done today - and to go through the 100 plus things on the todo list and purge/reschedule.

Comments

[amaebi]

You are brave and generous, and I’m very impressed by your honesty with the Friends.

Adrian Tschaikovsky lives near here, and Sheeyun tells me that when asked, he made a Zoom appearance at a base-organized book group. Clearly a hard-working and generous guy.

[elainegrey]

Thank you. I am somewhat tired of drama, but i suspect in a week or so i will need to dip in again. There's one woman who wanted the brokenness between us healed. She's gone silent, which may mean she too is exhausted. But then there's the lost email issue.