We Meeting 4 times a year on the Last Saturdays of January, March, May, and September at 11am in the Morning right out in front of the Jack London Lodge and the Wolf House restaurant in the very small town of Glen Ellen which is about 45 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge.
We need to make an assessment of who we are and where we are going towards the attainment of this vision of sustainable community which has changed radically since we have entered into the World Wide Web of Life.
We need to meet the people and take a little closer look at the vision as a whole.Our email group has now grown to over 600 people and we do need to begin to integrate that into a workable whole. Everyone needs to be there to meet with new folks and to hear from everyone who feels they have a sincere interest in this project.
We all have a real part to play in this and there is a great need for people to meet up with T and the others who are beginning to make up the beginnings of an unofficial core group that will lovingly have to be able to plant the beginnings of Eden. Everyone should come clean and neat to show respect for the meet and you might even want to bring something to share.
Directions From the Bay Area
Glen Ellen is on Arnold Drive off Highway 12 in between the town of Sonoma and Kenwood. Go north on 101 from the Golden Gate Bridge until you get to HWY 37. Take that east to 121 North towards Sonoma. Keep going north up along the west side of the Valley then go into 116 north and that goes into Arnold Drive which takes you right into Glen Ellen and the Jack London Lodge is right in the center of this very small town and so you just can't miss it and we will be looking out for you as well right out front, so don't go inside until we have had a chance to see you.
From the North
Come down highway 101 to Santa Rosa, Then take the College Exit and then left under the overpass going east which veers into HWY 12 after a while and heads you out past Kenwood, then look for signs for Glen Ellen which is the next town off the highway on your right.Everyone is searching for their place in Eden right now. A lot of people have come a long way. We have had people come from as far away as Italy and another had just gotten back from Findhorn. We do have members from as far away as India and have had subscribers of the Eden Journal from folks in Japan because this really is a global vision. So we all do have to try to make the effort to come to each and every meeting.
Sustainability
Be seen and be heard and begin to get to know the many sides of all the other people because people are very different in person. Folks are welcome to exchange contact info or to stick around and make friends after the meetings which has happened many times. We do believe in having some kind of transparency.One thing is that people do need to show in some way that they do value some of the time and energy that is brought forth from who knows where and for those who do set aside the time for these meetings so we do always try to extend a special recognition to show that we appreciate all those who have done so much as well as those who have come the farthest.
Respect our meetings and do be prepared to accept some guidance and direction. These meetings are provided as a service and we do expect to find some grace and dignity in the proceedings. Do feel free to let us know if you are coming and need camping or lodging information.
Most of the many people who have come to grace our table with their presence have been from within our local focus area which is loosely described as being somewhere in between Santa Cruz and Arcata and then that could extend east up into the Sierras so you can bring your ideas to share about community as well and make some important local connections with folks here in this EcoRegion.
We usually do have a pretty good bunch of folks so just do your best and forget the rest. Bring your own unique perspectives.
Ask your questions. Make your proposals and do feel free to present something about yourself in writing if you wish so we can begin to know who you are a small contribution would be welcomed. We do welcome others to try to find a way to collaborate with us on some of this but you do have to have something real to offer.
We will need a lot of help and supportive people to take up the slack jack so do feel free to become indispensable. We all know the importance of cooperation and creating a Safety Zone for Truth and Justice.
So do let us know what part you might like to play or what you might have to contribute towards the vision of Eco-Logical Integration and regular old Sustainability for one and all.
We do need somebody to bring a laptop and take the minutes of each meeting and then to get everyone to sign up and then you can train as a moderator which is more about service and facilitation than control and domination.
We welcome your skills as an important part of this collaborative effort. If you have the time and the energy for more involvement then you really need to come to the meeting which is always on unless Rain Cancels.
Those who come will get a chance to look through the new Eden Journal which will be available at the discounted rate of only Two Dollars.
We now have well over 700 great big fat members in one group and over a Thousand in another which is huge for any single community network email group...
Thirty Five Dollars from each real member will give us something to work with over the coming year. We have not be slacking off here.
We do have some great big fat publications in the works that are just dying to be printed, and that will allow us to reach out to a lot more people. But we can only do that with your help. In return for that we will now be able to send you not only The Eden Journal which is something real that you can show to your friends, but now you will get the Free DVD along with that just as a token of our many thanks. - T
To Save the Earth
To join our group just send a blank email to:
Eden-Project-subscribe@yahoogroups.comWe meet right in the center of the map below:
