Thursday, March 20
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Good weather today. Melting a bit.
I got up in good time for our online meeting, so that I could be presentable, have a clear space around me, and have tabs open on the computer with everyone's summaries.
I was right on time for the meeting, got everything to work, and I felt so much better about trying to meet this way this time.
More than anything, I didn't want to let down this group of people who were ready to take on the challenge of starting to make changes in this pottery group; to bring it out of the Stone Age where a very small group of people just "ran things" in the most Mickey Mouse way, expecting everyone else to just not ask any questions and accept it.
If we can get a proper Facebook group together, this will break down the mental barrier created by this S person that somehow we're all isolated silos of people, who all have to go through S for any information or help. Our online group is meant to get people sharing their successful pieces, their learning experiences, and techniques. We want people to put up videos of them doing things to show others how it's done, and to encourage people to meet outside of class time to teach each other. All of this bypasses S and her lock down of information and development.
I feel like our group did a great job today, good ideas and solid building blocks were put in place.
From here, D is going to create one document from all of our contributions, and we'll go over it again, then send a final copy to the executive.
One thing that is just clear as a bell from every person I talk to, is that EVERYONE wants a cap on the number of members. EVERYONE.
After the meeting, I talked in a very brief and frivolous way with Sister E, who almost seems to be in shiny denial of how awful this past week has been for our family. I think on some level, she's just absolutely burnt out on death and aging and crisis. She was doing a lot to care for her husband's Mom, who only just passed away this past year, her own husband is not well, and there's been a lot of illness and death in our family in the last couple of years, which is not likely going to get better.
I know that she is trying to live a lot for herself right now, as her husband isn't up to much living. She's living in town now, meeting new people, trying to go to things like Paint nights and pickle ball and swimming and walking their dog, and whatever gets her out of the house for the day.
It's not that different from how determined I've been to keep going to see River, go to pottery, try to do fun things with my husband, and so on.
I did a few household things in there, I changed the cat litter and started a load of laundry.
My Sweetie got home in good time today after work, so I got his help to trim goat feet again. We focused on Brownie as she didn't get hers done last time, but I did a bit more on Sasha. When their feet get quite long, sometimes you have to do it in stages, some of it one day, and go back in a week or so. It's like the soft bit in the middle has to recede a bit more so you can go a little shorter.
Then we went to the park down the road. Almost none of the paths have been cleared over the winter, as they've had less and less funding (thanks, Danielle Smith) in the last few years. People have just made paths in the snow, but they're icy and slushy now, so we walked on the road through the park.
It was really nice, but I can tell that I haven't been walking enough this winter.
Then we came home, my Sweetie made supper, and we watched an episode of "Fringe". I think I must have watched some of this a few years ago, I remember bits and pieces.
Good weather today. Melting a bit.
I got up in good time for our online meeting, so that I could be presentable, have a clear space around me, and have tabs open on the computer with everyone's summaries.
I was right on time for the meeting, got everything to work, and I felt so much better about trying to meet this way this time.
More than anything, I didn't want to let down this group of people who were ready to take on the challenge of starting to make changes in this pottery group; to bring it out of the Stone Age where a very small group of people just "ran things" in the most Mickey Mouse way, expecting everyone else to just not ask any questions and accept it.
If we can get a proper Facebook group together, this will break down the mental barrier created by this S person that somehow we're all isolated silos of people, who all have to go through S for any information or help. Our online group is meant to get people sharing their successful pieces, their learning experiences, and techniques. We want people to put up videos of them doing things to show others how it's done, and to encourage people to meet outside of class time to teach each other. All of this bypasses S and her lock down of information and development.
I feel like our group did a great job today, good ideas and solid building blocks were put in place.
From here, D is going to create one document from all of our contributions, and we'll go over it again, then send a final copy to the executive.
One thing that is just clear as a bell from every person I talk to, is that EVERYONE wants a cap on the number of members. EVERYONE.
After the meeting, I talked in a very brief and frivolous way with Sister E, who almost seems to be in shiny denial of how awful this past week has been for our family. I think on some level, she's just absolutely burnt out on death and aging and crisis. She was doing a lot to care for her husband's Mom, who only just passed away this past year, her own husband is not well, and there's been a lot of illness and death in our family in the last couple of years, which is not likely going to get better.
I know that she is trying to live a lot for herself right now, as her husband isn't up to much living. She's living in town now, meeting new people, trying to go to things like Paint nights and pickle ball and swimming and walking their dog, and whatever gets her out of the house for the day.
It's not that different from how determined I've been to keep going to see River, go to pottery, try to do fun things with my husband, and so on.
I did a few household things in there, I changed the cat litter and started a load of laundry.
My Sweetie got home in good time today after work, so I got his help to trim goat feet again. We focused on Brownie as she didn't get hers done last time, but I did a bit more on Sasha. When their feet get quite long, sometimes you have to do it in stages, some of it one day, and go back in a week or so. It's like the soft bit in the middle has to recede a bit more so you can go a little shorter.
Then we went to the park down the road. Almost none of the paths have been cleared over the winter, as they've had less and less funding (thanks, Danielle Smith) in the last few years. People have just made paths in the snow, but they're icy and slushy now, so we walked on the road through the park.
It was really nice, but I can tell that I haven't been walking enough this winter.
Then we came home, my Sweetie made supper, and we watched an episode of "Fringe". I think I must have watched some of this a few years ago, I remember bits and pieces.
