[Springboard] Checking in on book study, the Obama transition and invisible college matters

[Marilyn R Crocker]

Hi Jim,

Many thanks for this provocative summary of your conversation with Robert
Schafer. Hmmm... seems as if you are becoming the 21st century version of
John Nesbitt, discerning the emerging Megatrends, albeit with a far
greater plethora of subcategories.  What you have 'mused' could well seed
thinking for a next Springboard gathering.

(I don't believe it was really minus 28 degrees in Arizona!)

Marilyn


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On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 12:24:02 -0800 (PST) James Wiegel <jfwiegel at yahoo.com>
writes:
> If there is interest in a study group on Hot, Flat and Crowded, Bob 
> Rafos has offered to get us started on JANUARY 14.  Let's talk.  The 
> US ToP trainers meeting is going to be charting it for breakfast, 
> and I will try to take pictures, share, and perhaps recruit some of 
> them for an ongoing study.
> 
> I experience myself in a kind of suspended animation . . . the 
> incoming administration is asking for input (www.change.gov) and 
> there is a contest for the 10 best ideas to implement for America 
> (www.change.org).  There is also a call and infrastructure for 
> continued local meetings, planning and relationship building -- with 
> encouragement for service projects on MLK day and hosting of local 
> inaugural celebrations (www.barakobama.com).  You can find out what 
> is happening in any zip code, organize your own events, etc.
> 
> Robert Schafer, a long time colleague of "the movement" stopped by 
> over the weekend and we had a long talk, sort of like a reprise of 
> our various Springboard gatherings -- what is our responsibility?  
> what do we have as a unique contribution based on our experience?  
> As you might expect from a couple of old, ecclesiola-trained guys, 
> we waxed a bit philosophical, recalled several passages from the 
> work that Anne Wood coordinated in spelling out the practical vision 
> for a new social vehicle, he showed pictures of the earthship house 
> he built out in the desert, etc.
> 
> See attached for some of our thoughts.  What is going on with you 
> all these days?
> 
> Jim Wiegel
> 
> The essence of ultimate decision remains impenetrable to the 
> observer - often, indeed, to the decider himself (...) There will 
> always be the dark and tangled stretches in the decision-making 
> process - mysterious even to those who may be intimately involved.   
> John F. Kennedy
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