Rockin' Day: Stone Circle's, Phat Love, and Scrabble
So cool.
Sarah Kaneko and I accompanied a rockin' cast of awesome folks to Stone House, the new spiritual life and strategic action retreat center recently moved into by Stone Circles. They're taking over the place from the Human Kindness Foundation, an prison/spiritual-work organization with a deep history run by Bo and Sita Lozoff, parents of my mentor and magic teacher Josh Lozoff. 75 acres dedicated to a home for spiritual transformation and a social justice, anti-racist lens for the region. Exciting stuff. An aside - they're doing an appeal for support to help get them into the space, and could use all the help they can get. Lots of rockin' folks were there that I find inspiring, like Claudia Horwitz, Andrew Pearson, SONG's Caitlin Breedlove, and many others without webby presences. And we started with food at Weaver, which is always nice.
Afterwards Sarah and I went to Durham for a meeting of a LGBT youth of color organization (currently named PHAT LOVE) being championed by a number of youth and adult allies. Again, I feel lucky to have been able to be a white, adult ally and offer my support for what they're working on. Shannon Rogers and Danni Brit of the old NCLYN (why is that page still up??), Brit of the iNSIDEoUT Board with Shannon, Beth Bruch of ASPYN, Rebecca on the board of the new Bull City Headquarters, Mandy Carter (superstar)... and Sarah and me. We had a rockin' conversation about where to go from there.
You know, I'm always amazed how much more I love people in person than I can share with funny weblinks and celebratory blips. I'm so lucky to have a day of being around, even briefly, such great folks. I hope I can get to know more of them more deeply, and not just in a celebratory sense. I don't really know how to convey some of these stories without celebrating the individuals and communities involved, but I don't want these postings to become name droppings (sounds like poop!) either. I don't think I quite know how to cope with the great feeling that the world is in good care I get knowing these folks, some acquaintences at this point, some getting to be better friends.
I love being an organizer. I love working, going to school, and having the many related privileges that combine to letting me be civicly involved. To spend part of Sunday brainstorming for change with mentors and friends I'm inspired by...great (though I did miss Sunday Aikido - a bummer - but Saturday we made the Friendship Seminar at Charlotte Aikikai). It's a humbling, wonderful life to be involved in. Makes me wanna connect as many folks to meaningful changework as possible.
And now, Scrabble with Sarah. And of course my GTD weekly review and starting the week. Hooray.
Sarah Kaneko and I accompanied a rockin' cast of awesome folks to Stone House, the new spiritual life and strategic action retreat center recently moved into by Stone Circles. They're taking over the place from the Human Kindness Foundation, an prison/spiritual-work organization with a deep history run by Bo and Sita Lozoff, parents of my mentor and magic teacher Josh Lozoff. 75 acres dedicated to a home for spiritual transformation and a social justice, anti-racist lens for the region. Exciting stuff. An aside - they're doing an appeal for support to help get them into the space, and could use all the help they can get. Lots of rockin' folks were there that I find inspiring, like Claudia Horwitz, Andrew Pearson, SONG's Caitlin Breedlove, and many others without webby presences. And we started with food at Weaver, which is always nice.
Afterwards Sarah and I went to Durham for a meeting of a LGBT youth of color organization (currently named PHAT LOVE) being championed by a number of youth and adult allies. Again, I feel lucky to have been able to be a white, adult ally and offer my support for what they're working on. Shannon Rogers and Danni Brit of the old NCLYN (why is that page still up??), Brit of the iNSIDEoUT Board with Shannon, Beth Bruch of ASPYN, Rebecca on the board of the new Bull City Headquarters, Mandy Carter (superstar)... and Sarah and me. We had a rockin' conversation about where to go from there.
You know, I'm always amazed how much more I love people in person than I can share with funny weblinks and celebratory blips. I'm so lucky to have a day of being around, even briefly, such great folks. I hope I can get to know more of them more deeply, and not just in a celebratory sense. I don't really know how to convey some of these stories without celebrating the individuals and communities involved, but I don't want these postings to become name droppings (sounds like poop!) either. I don't think I quite know how to cope with the great feeling that the world is in good care I get knowing these folks, some acquaintences at this point, some getting to be better friends.
I love being an organizer. I love working, going to school, and having the many related privileges that combine to letting me be civicly involved. To spend part of Sunday brainstorming for change with mentors and friends I'm inspired by...great (though I did miss Sunday Aikido - a bummer - but Saturday we made the Friendship Seminar at Charlotte Aikikai). It's a humbling, wonderful life to be involved in. Makes me wanna connect as many folks to meaningful changework as possible.
And now, Scrabble with Sarah. And of course my GTD weekly review and starting the week. Hooray.
Labels: PHAT LOVE, Stone House
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8/12/2007 08:27:00 PM
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