*Day 0*

I had missed the 'rule' part!
Wrt what would I be willing to be held to account?
What kind of intentional community might be situated within a Quaker
meeting?

Alex Wildwood:
 Connection: participation/communion/community
 Reflection/meditation/contemplation: Stilling the monkey mind;
   self-enquiry: what are we led to do
 Service: Action of love [12 step]; work, creativity and caring;
          aliveness is relational
          Serving the great works of justice, peace and love

Aka connection/consciousness/compassion

Power and presence that is greater than us

Ego, seeking self-validation.  "I don't like change"

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Ben PD:

"A succession of very unhappy people, nothing to do with me" !
??? hedonism.

Faithfulness: What does it feel like to be faithful, how do I know
what is an authentic spiritual impetus?

Keep practicing a life as ministry; Remember the principle of Act as If.

Look for a feeling, and look at the fruits.

Holy moments, right place/right time, a _thin_ place

Good questions to ask about authentic decision making

Amish decision: does this build community?

Ever vigilant, and recognise the need for help.

*Day 1*
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Be prepared to wait.  Sometimes one has to just get out of the way.

G. MacLeod: "I don't believe in coincidences, but when I stop praying
they stop happening".

"Fold the wings of the intellect"

"God is reached by love, not navigation" Augustine

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But sometimes pain is just painful...

"There is a power and presence by which we live" _The_ Quaker
testimony, per Jocelyn Burnell, allegedly

curl -o ewa  ftpes://hsthompson:eebaephai4Ae@resources.elda.org/

-------------Rules----------

What is the aim of the spiritual life: to realise the full potential
of my humanity.

Noticing how we sabotage our best intentions

*Day 2*

----------Rule for me-------

Substantive, realistic, ministry

[use positive language]

How without a community?

If I'm not keeping a rule maybe _it_ needs to change

Don't set oneself up to fail "I have not gone after things to great,
or marvels beyond me".

QF&P/A&Q as a rule: how to make it more personal [substantive,
realistic, ministry]

What's already underway w/o problems may not need to be in there...

Be careful about inviting ways to work around bits

Use the stairs as a physical cue, morning and evening, to set the
day's goals; to acknowledge the goods/fallings short.

Thich Nhat Hanh puts value on 'solidity':  that resonates, but what
_is_ it?

St. Francis: "[E]liminate the ways we may manipulate others to ur own
    ends."

I'm going to write this without assuming that I'm ready to adopt it,
call it...

*Towards a Guide for Living*

Striving to fulfill the potential of my humanity (in general) and my
particular gifts (in particular), grounded in Christianity.
"... 'Live up to the light thee hast and more will be granted thee'. ... I
strove to lead a more Christian life, in unison with what I knew to be
right ..." Caroline Fox, 26.04 in QF&P

Accepting that I will fail again, while trying to fail better, here
are some goals, which I may use "as an aid to self-discipline" [BPD]

  * Start most days with some quiet time, prayer for the day ahead,
    what opportunities/risks it may offer for doing good/falling
    short.

  * Apologise less, and only when it's genuine, and not a dishonest
    attempt to look good/earn brownie points.

  * Enumerate specific concrete goals/projects
      * For those already underway, describe/identify KPIs/criteria for
        declaring victory and/or pulling out
        * CCrawl research paper
        * Grant proposal
        * PDF project
        * CDX project
        * WebArch book
        * Move south
      * For candidates, prioritise
        * CCrawl whitepaper
        * Middle Way project
        * Autobiography
        * Group of N

     [ref. BPD "[C]omplete all tasks I take on and only take on those
      I truly feel I can carry out.  To finish current major projects
      before I embark on new ones"]

   
  * Start a House Group dedicated to Good Old Fashioned (Christian)
    Quakerism [ref. BPD "[M]ake a commitment to discuss my faith and
    the faith of others each week"; "[A]ttempt to find others who
    would want to participate in mutual guidance"; "[T]hink about the
    future of Quakerism"]

  * Start having people in for lunch (Bonnie?) or dinner

  * Ask Mark if we can start having lunch every week or two

  * Look for a way to volunteer in a helping capacity
    Samaritains?  Google [volunteer counselling opportunities
    edinburgh] suggests there are _lots_ of opportunities

    Reconsider my unwillingness to serve as an Overseer

  * Anger management: try harder to own the weaknesses that fuel my
		      aggressive responses
                      * To Catharine
                      * To (motor)cyclists

  * Declutter, including reclassifying much long-held-on-to as
    clutter.  [ref. AW "[Release] many possessions and attachments
    ... no longer hoard newspapers/cuttings and printed matter
    generally.]

  * Practice explicit humility and thanksgiving, giving thanks for
    "the comforts [I] enjoy and the responsibilities [my] affluence
    entails" [BPD] and the blessings of my family.

  * Aim for honesty and integrity, not forgetting the that tact is not
    dishonesty: "Is it true, is it kind, is it necessary, is it
    helpful?" and "Does this build community?"

    Things to document/confess/seek to redress, or lay to rest?
      Russian History
      Early years of marriage
      Timanous

  * Try not to dismiss suggestions/opportunities out-of-hand.