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

[Ellen & David Rebstock]

Please include us on the book study list. I'm a third of the way thru the
book

Dave Rebstock

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Robert Rafos <rafos at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> 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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