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

[Robert Rafos]

Greetings,

Do you ever wonder how you get yourself into some situations?

It sounds like we have a group to study Hot, Flat and Crowded.  I am  
attaching a "chart" of Why Birds don't Fly.  Thought that could kick  
us off and we can discuss how we want to approach the book on  
Wednesday.  I assume Jim Wiegel is enabling a conference call at 6:00  
PM his local time or 8:00 PM EST.  Jim can you please provide the  
details.

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On 6-Jan-09, at 3:24 PM, James Wiegel 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
>
> 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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