I am reminded of a proverb: he who tries to bring everyone to the top of the mountain will never reach it himself. He who chooses his path and takes it will surely succeed.
I believe that Lion is clearly outlining what his intention is, and anyone who want to join in, is welcome, but if you don't, or if you want to substantially modify his intention, well, your on your own finding your way to the top of the mountain. Lion has chosen his path, and he is going to take it. There are people willing to follow and support that journey, and offer guidance and advise on the way up, but if you don't want to get to the same mountain peak, by the similar means, well, this trek is not for you. At least that is what i am hearing. By no means am i following lion in an unquestioning and servile manner, but i believe in his vision for saturday house, and I am willing to do what i can to support it. I am not going to obey lion as if he is a cult leader, but when it comes to saturday house, this is a vision he has outlined and I am willing to support it. -gregory Lion Kimbro wrote: > I have a job, and I really need to work at it. > > I shouldn't have written this email. However, I have, and here it is. > > ... > > I wish I could describe my perspective right now; What Saturday House > has been, visions of Spiriata, countless memories from Damanhur, > flashes of Bral Talej cards, Mars Hill, Clearwater, Twin Oaks; What's > in my head, and what's here in the mailing list are dancing around one > another. > > This is clearly what the Damanhurian's call a Synchronic moment. > Clearly, too, Saturday House needs direction. > > Further, I need to get home, so that I can go to bed. > > I have doubts about the vision that I have spoken so far, and clearly, > the list is in need of healing. > > Saturday House will be neither what it has been, nor will it be what I > have imagined it to be, up to this moment. It will be something > better. > > > 1. I am captain of this ship. Rule 6 simply means that people > recognize that I am captain of the ship. If I say "No," it means, > "We're not doing that." If I say "I need you to do this," it > means that you should do it. Punctuality is very important, > otherwise these things won't work. > > I can see a path where -- if we exert a lot of effort, we can > establish a very different kind of governance in our future, > reflective of the kind of governance we would like to see in the > world at large. But we will need to get there. > > 1 1/2. A bit of clarification, in case anyone is confused: We are > explicitly NOT plotting overthrows of the government, or > anything like that. Participation in Saturday House has > ALWAYS been, and always WILL be purely voluntary. > > 2. A question: > > Is the reaction against the law a reaction against the CONTENTS of > the law: "we don't speak against high ideals" -- or rather, is it > a reaction against the idea of rules at Saturday House all? > > If Saturday House is to be bent according to a vision, then I need > to be able to make some hammer marks on it. High ideals is part > of this. > > 3. This "new vision" is not actually very new; It is only *slightly* > different than Saturday House's original vision. The strategy, > however, is radically different, and based in things learned in > the last 2 years. Bring your projects, your ambitions, your > interests; But not only these- also, your hearts, and your sincere > presence. > > 4. Mike Begley is right about projects and work items. > We'll start with: > 1. Finding Saturday House locations to use on Saturday. > 2. Communication of Vision. > 3. Experiment with different ways of structuring our Saturdays, > based on feedback and ideas from everybody. Remember: Many > failures will come, but we will find what works. > 4. Remaking the website to reflect our change. Artwork, text, > the page structures, and web serving. > 5. Establishing dues. They will be light, to begin with. Dues > are proportional to the degree of participation someone wishes > to engage. And if you have no money, of course, you shouldn't > pay anything. Visitors and people investigating are requested > NOT to pay dues. Regulars who are not involved in running > Saturday House will have a *light* dues request. > 6. Collecting posters, books, even comics that are representative > of what we hold in our hearts. Please, bring what is dear to > you. (*) > > 5. THERE ARE NO PROFESSIONALS HERE. I am a captain, but don't > mistake my "captaining" for professionalism. I don't know that > there even *is* a profession for what I am doing. We need to hear > many ideas, and try many things. We will develop understandings, > over time, from our experiments -- this is good. We will fail > many times, I am sure. But it will be exciting; An adventure. > > Do you feel that knot in your stomach? > > It means that we're going to do something very, very different. > > > (*) Some people who's quotes are important to me, off the top of my > head, in no particular order, that we can seed ourselves with: > > Walt Disney http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walt_Disney > GK Chesterton > George MacDonald > CS Lewis > Madeline LeEngle > Ursula K Leguin > Paul Twitchell > Kirphal Singh > Ghandi > Michael Turner > Osamu Tezuka > Frank Herbert > Leiji Matsumoto > Masamune Shirow > Kousuke Fujishima > Oberto Airaudi > Teilhard De Chardin > > > > > -- ---- Gregory Heller http://www.GregoryHeller.com http://delicious.com/GregoryHeller http://twitter.com/gregoryheller --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Website: http://saturdayhouse.org/ Post: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
