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

[Len Hockley]

Hi all,
I am half way through Hot, Flat and Crowded.  A study group would be fine.

Len

At 12:24 PM 1/6/2009 -0800, you wrote:
>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
>
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>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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