(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.