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Circle
Date
Saturday,
July 19, 2003 at Kawashaway
Future
Circle Dates
- During Gathering Kawashaway
- Labor Day Weekend Kawashaway
- Woodcutters Ball (10/10-12) Kawashaway
Present Pollen*,
Xeno*, White Dragon, Bearberry*, Bruce, Beebalm*
(4/15 Stewards =
Quorum)
* indicates Stewards
Agenda
There
was no agenda prior to the Circle. We convened while waiting for
the tester cookies to emerge from the oven and after having rescued
the cookhouse from the Artlip floods…
We brainstormed agenda items:
• Water
system budget
• Residents at Kawashaway
Old
Business
• water
system budget: Xeno had been approved for a budget of $200 for the
water
system at the last Circle; his costs finished up
at about $400. He discussed this in between cookie batches; they were
sugar cookies and were very good. Xeno reports that the water system
is done for now but improvements can still be made if desired.
CONSENSUS: We will reimburse Xeno for his extra expenses for the water
project.
We also
noted that we were a bit unclear as to the process for someone who
wanted to
buy necessary items for the sanctuary that wouldn’t
need a Circle to approve them.
New
Business
- residents
at Kawashaway: We felt that this Circle could only start the conversation
about Pollen’s request to live on the
land. We are in favor of calling a Circle at Gathering to address the
question; Pollen will do so. We discussed: the need to have good process
around the decision; the possibility that residents might make more
difficult the possibility of being alone on the land—we recognize
that the decision would create a shift in what community looks like
on the land; Pollen offered the possibility of allowing for personal
space and communal space both at the same time; Beebalm suggested that
we not only look at how to “get around” the conflict between
personal and communal space, but also to how this decision might evolve
us as individuals and a group towards more community; Dragon pointed
out that we take responsibility for creating our own experiences on
the land, and we can ask for solitude, AND, Kawashaway is a small space;
Pollen expressed his desire to have us see how the land around us is
also our land in the larger sense; Xeno talked about acknowledging
that other Sanctuaries have private and public areas, but the analogy
might fail because of size differences; Pollen said Kawashaway might
need a different model. We talked about what happens at Short Mountain.
We talked about the difference between residents who might devolve
into a more traditional property mentality, and visitors who might
see residents, especially in the cabin, as “owning it,” and
therefore staying away; we need to stay awake and not collapse into
assumptions. Bruce suggested the possibility of allowing the Sanctuary
to be used for short-term stays on the land as well. Dragon suggested
we need a process for deciding who stays on the land for how long and
assuring good, clean, and clear communication.
Forward
to Next Circle
- check
in on where we are with Governance questions, including the scope
of
the Circle question
- completion of the new pantry and redesignation of the Teahouse as a
multi-purpose
- renewal of the Land Use Committee and land use planning
- clarification of when a project proposal is needed
Action
Items
Action;
Faerie Accountable; Date Due
- Call Circle at Gathering on residency; Pollen; Gathering
- Contact Stewards re: need to have Circles in cities in the fall;
Beebalm; July 21
- Review notes on policies about spending small amounts of money
and email Circle; Beebalm; July 21
Submitted
by Beebalm
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