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so welcome again to everyone and this is typically are all sanga meeting potlucks that would be all eighteen in each other's great homemade dishes so as i said if you want to have a snack or something to drink feel free to do
that during this meeting we are going to record it but because the couple people are not able to make it in the they definitely want to hear
so with regards to the chat box with we're gonna open that up during the discussion which is gonna be at the end of the mating so that you have any questions about any the items that were going to be covering his make a note of that can then you could not feel it to the to the box
so we'll see
i'd say we are ready to begin first of all that the was the purposes of this lady is that is are affirming our board and so let's go ahead and start with that enron d are going to briefly explain how our process works can will
tell you about the members zero
on the board and are going to be affirmed
so randy and
so yeah why didn't she began and then i'll i'll speak more about three at-large members
okay
add can you hear me yeah your muted to go i think as most of you know or
our election committee has responsibility of filling the at-large seats are bored and every year we go through the process of recruiting and talking to him and approving of three candidates
who are then on three or more or less candidates depending on the openings and they are offered to the saga for their approval
and this year
thankfully as far as i'm concerned given the circumstances ah
oh the three are people who else sit on the board are have agreed to serve another term so on those people will be ah on the nest we set out along with ah the added and the by sabha and the president and the
i'm treasurer ah and the press interesting the president's to the saga for their approval
and on running you want to add anything more that girl didn't go with the i'm just to underscore that this is an annual process and should you be wishing to be nominated in the next round of as a newsletter states you could contact
and hertzog care paul or myself so i'm so much for the election process and i think the poll is going to be published starting tomorrow
and we're gonna as we're going to ask that it be completed by october first
yes that's right so you'll receive an email
ah so that you can complete that and send it back and do do that are as soon as you can won't take more than two or three minutes
so i'm going to talk about are just briefly introduce who are current board member executive committee as well first of all and you all we all know so janet ozone and of course they sit on the board and then
when our president is mary jury a right to american is
i shelled out the marry his arm she served her second term and it'll served as vice president has been on the board for a long time when she's in her second term and has one more year to go ah at it as president held many positions here let me see see
i'm now serving the vice president and i too will go off the board next year so each of us has one more year and finally we have our to treasure laurie sana'a guy are you probably just recently received that wonderful email about laurie so
no need to speak but all her wonderful skills and abilities so i going to turn it over now to let a rocky start with are no actually tom cruise tom here
the i don't know i don't
morandi would you like to start sure what started up
we're going to i'll introduce introduce dean bradley so dean bradley's dharma name is todo carrick who she began practicing get bcc twenty years ago she is a person of multiple talents for service on the board is part of her community to participate
ation she says i feel responsible as another sanga tasks dean has filled new numerous practice positions literally inside and out of the bcc compound i even remember that she went under the community room at one point
these include saturday director working on office computer technology consulting on buildings and grounds and serving as work leader a photographer she has documented the ceremonies and was the official uploader of lectured prior to zoom she has a can do
attitude and finishes the project she starts over the years she has done a lot of work on our grounds currently dean if the full time caregiver for her mother who lives with her the board is please she has agreed to run for a second term
de glory would you like to go ahead i'm not seen tonga and introduce
on on here on carol oh okay tom you would you like to go ahead and introduce sue yeah have fun to yourself i'm not pleased to introduce sue would she have you everybody knows everybody knows so sue watch indicates a pcc back and nineteen ninety and
was ordained by a sojourn roshi and ninety five her dominate his do you say shun right pearl pure faith
she's held many positions of pcc including had children and manager terry director and oreo okay cloth maker
as many of you know sue ran a montessori preschool for her own for many years and more recently has been involved in the antipoverty grassroots lobby
participation called results her children live in oregon pendragon granddaughter just graduated from california college of the arts the move to portland
my more personal note she was one of the first people i met my first came to bc's he and she instructed me on zaza and or aoki and continues to be binary okay and structure then not corrected by sloppy approach to worry okay which i really appreciate
you ever on a warm and welcoming spirit which shum her voice of when i'm sorry director you're the first person that approaches nice all i can teach his person real key and you jumped right in and i really appreciate that and love working with you when i'm really grateful for your service
on the board and for being willing to hang in there with it so thank you sue em
i hope you win the election
a
and i'm gonna introduce linda
who i've known since nineteen eighty year before that in the late seventies ash and started practicing in san francisco zen center i'm and she's been practicing a bcc for quite a while i don't know ten some years i didn't do as good we didn't see and i had a conversation but we didn't do quite as thorough a job as everyone else did but she
she is recently retired from stanford and she was involved many of us have experience at a many year project organizing the caviar singers to calm and to concerts and she wrote a book about kabir she's done translating and she's involved in very scholarly projects and
lots of scholars really projects she's married to cause tanahashi the amazing peace activist artist and linda has really enjoyed being on the board because she people who've practiced sincerely for a lot of years are often mature and delightful she says she
enjoys the meetings she feels like they worked with practical minds kind hearts feet on the ground and taking care of everything that needs to be taking care of so that hundreds of people can sit zazen and listen to talks
and
so anyway she's a wonderful person and if you don't know i hope you get a chance now that she's retired to get to know her somehow
thank you
no thanks to all of your mother my article is protections i am now going to turn the meeting over to so did i marry who are going to be talking about or affirmation process for our upcoming abbott lew abbott
mary here in sajjan
and you understood
he admitted so i can't tell whether you're saying yes or no

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just a moment i'm going to choose where we are now we can hear you yeah going to change my name to so too
oh do i have used a retirement britain
okay
i'm well i'm a very good a dish looks i did road on here guns not
codrington i killed for and show
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tilted or to the
i wrote reddish commotion around speaker view and you'll be featured featured in the rooster
should be one of the first people on your first page or earlier she either i am i know i get him
no

i'm at some point
we haven't decided exactly when
are there will be transition
rome for a know an average transition
and i will step down as abbott after
i was i was in habit to let in why report
ah but does she love the time or but i am
well have been really relish
either
since nineteen sixty seven when she's recognition as me to open fireplace to place an official bullet
so on
i was slipped down as rather than a hose on janaki will step up agenda so we're gonna have that transition
so let's be deal or resent sugar oh minnesota gue and yet
just know how to grow the fudge
i'm sure
what will a change like this you know i have many students know there to students and nurtured me through
the decades long dream
and how most of the center or my students so awesome
although of those builder for thirty some years
i'm not you will
inherit
oh
the com
responsibilities
who said that

it a exactly what the creamy
one john
i think the someone has their microphone unneeded in it it's a tv surgeon where you with i don't know if you can hear me but i think you're on if you'd be able to mute yourself or as i just i just needed him thank you
whoever it is so i'm ah
a it inherited responsibilities if you approve of him
ah which i'm sure he will ah
i'm not completely dead center
search the a difficult step to make
and come
the com are many people i think that we don't like to see me step-down and ah
the
many students and support
hassan i do to go on the cynicism some kind of competitive thin i'm actually complaining one now
then there's plenty time for me to delish a
and are quite willing
and i'm happy to have most fun
should say i assume responsibilities of the cabinet
so i want to support him as much as i can and i also like a shepherd who wants you to support him isn't much as you can
this kind of situation there are always
you know difficulties and one kind or another
on the often or sometimes where there's a transition
well some looks only former abbott's students will leave
but i own rather everybody stay
they will do read i should have that has been an a because when i stepped down i will help a not gonna go anywhere
the a different role
ah maybe accounting teacher or
ah
senior door a teacher or something like that and i will still be around his legs i can manage to take care of my on students that i want all of my own students to also follow ma'am
now he added the new ever
and together we can say together but we can assume no responsibility to altogether
i really would like to have the students all of us step up
and i don't want use a challenge but i don't be afraid to question
to app
i see that's really important
when you have doubts whether whether you have a glowing praise to whatever
don't feel and an unhindered
khloe and question to grow ever and when you if you see things a little odd to see something ah administration to unjust for that so
you know often when we have
the past originally in the past
some song as
i had to kind of pure middle ah shut up
the dug up its leverage on top and everybody else down below the kind of pyramids is true it is a pyramid but the pyramid should not be like this it should be my like this
susan is more equality around the around the abbot and
to be the average grade advisers
there should be a team of ah advisors who are not rubber stamp years
my been less situation
and some just concentrator i was to cohabit nine years
and on a lot of dotage
i wouldn't say that it was difficult for me back difficulties
just before being habit actually my adversary actually quite nice now let's collaborate with army
or
rob anderson
and we always agreed even i'm not
decent a unilaterally we would always consult with each other
now add with them to a senior students about anything that we do
so had made it work quite well that way that kind of an intriguing about that
although the abbot is the top of pyramid can cut your has to be fun leadership
oh that's my feeling
ah someone that we're all point to as a little
and but to say time
we shouldn't just the black just follow blindly
and the letter should always consult with people before doing something
so we don't always do that that we should be a
or should we should say something if we feel that the power structure is overwhelmed
by one person that should not happen
i think get that won't happen and subject everyone's pretty much dedicated to that at any rate
so i feel pretty comfortable
with the transition
i'm
a hooker is not me
no i'm not the but we're all each other and you say time
so hum
thanks well no good at six we're we're not used to
and which can be hard as it is for the the former abbot to still be around with a new habit is courtesy
so was see what happens
the snohomish rather unusual maybe
the real first time here
usually in japan when the the older but
stretched down goes into retirement
the will happen and i had to certainly senate it will
madam
so anyway we're asked into the unknown or not

i'm
so i will have a stepping down ceremony this will be my second second debts stepping down ceremony because i had while it's to schools and seller
and ninety ninety eight
zika vaccine advocates ninety seven
and already
i stepped on addition to the down
a lot eighty eight ninety seven
so am i have that experience loan
so
after i too much dependence admiration and then we'll have list of the opposite of won't have to do avid mountain feet ceremony
pageantry
hmm
shall i just wanna say that i'm are prepared to this
and happy about it
having a few reservations but i feel happy totally happy about it i don't want it for you
i'm
ah
and i want you or i watched all to support new but because it's a tough ah a tough place to step into
he will unique you know what you want to do
everything's doesn't go that way

so i will do it agenda sport everybody
i'm doing
do you have any question surgeon agent either
who on a caravan mean i've had some to yes we were here to say something we thought we'd wait for questions we just have a little more peace in them will open it up for questions but mary please and thank you so thank you
he surgeon
eh
in such a tender moment for all of us and
there's not just one feeling about it you know i think they're a pilot feelings about it
but let me just say something about the the structure of what we're bringing dishonour right now averages that are ever has chosen a successor
and the board has received his ah
and decision and welcomes this decision and we've been learning the board has been learning about what it's role is in this process ah
i'm not to say that we know completely but what we're understanding so far is that the the role of the board is to be the voice of the saga
which invites the new habit to ascend the mountain said
and
what we would like to do is really have as
why of an acclimation and information as we can so that we know that we are actually speaking as the voice of the songun so in this particular election process in this ballot we're adding and a
new and singular one time question which is why do you saga members
the about this choice so that when we do this invitation we would know that we would be speaking on your behalf so that is an additional part of this ballot process that will be
as a bargain on the a ballot i'm sonya i saw your hand go up did you wanna say something clarifying for lesson
your muted
i forgot to say that on delicious love me not clara i'm suggesting
how i was there but it's actually the board did as the board of saga who are doing the the irritation because i will be out of the picture and that ah
in that role so
the board is taking the responsibility
with added
at the point after you have stepped down than the board and the zonda up and running there's a water could betray us and i i will earn and that what i'm hoping that wheatland created and that it in terms literary language we use know you know traditionally it's is doubling down then
we can also see that it's a stepping into that the that the board creates a role that has a name and a function and description mm place in the saga for hour
yet to be making i think we are
after we after all we have to come up with a name and then offered decision and asked him if he would accept it and the name that we were floating today as we were talking about it is a founding dharma teacher oh which is a very unique position and own women we will create
that and he would still be available to us in all the ways that he has been available to us
so far which is hereby he it again because it's certain sort of broke off practices is a stand but doesn't matter just say again what the name
this is tentative to i'm just saying witnesses in discussion but the thing the name that we were contemplating today in the board name was founding dharma teacher is that when
is supposed to senior dance teacher ah
oh
also analysis is the last thing i will say the the transition team has oh
put out feelers to various people in the community about their availability for dates for these ceremonies and these are tentative dates so we're not it at some point soon when we are a little bit more sure we can send out to save the day
but should let you know what we're thinking about it we're thinking about december twenty seventh and for the these stepping down in in two different position ceremony and either the twenty ninth of december the thirtieth of december for a mountain state ceremony because that would be the
combination of a hard soon and he when it's also a time when usually people don't have anything scheduled and this is a year when people aren't gonna be probably going on vacation and may have the time off so on that's just those are just placeholders and we're just letting you know to
the to know where the discussions are at this point so i'll stop there surgeon itself a surgeon it looks like you're hedging would you like to say something to add something
these are just placeholders oh because oh
if you're going to have a ceremony are stepping up a mountain sheep ceremony will takes about two days in over three maybe to rehearse it because very complex ceremony so ah we were do
just before new year's show that the dispel up piano lunar year so but does god will forgive
and when we do will make sure everybody finds out knows it and has lost a day postcard
he'll know thank you thank you both ah so those love it though you'll receive an email tomorrow too
from everything we've said terms of the board and we just have a little period for announcements and then we can take all the comments and questions i'm sure yet how and in hose on would you like to say something about the archive partnership think a brief summary of that way
i'm to do that
had horse on

oh okay ah lori it is muted i get it i'm sorry okay it was another yes would you like to give a breakthrough skip description of this exciting news
yeah we have some exciting news the archive committee on myself on hose on on have a c or maria wisdoms has been a as well as our carol solheim and rob on lions
oh we've been working for some time laurie
and mary doria yes is right rob is not on this immediately radical who was over at the beginning how him and we've got some exciting news are we there are we send out feelers to different institutions have to find a home for our archives and
and i were contacted by stanford university and they want to be the place where are we can place our archives there including our papers or photos videos on talks and so were discuss
with them about the particulars but it looks very very promising and where we retain the copyright for though and they're put in a safe and secure place and we are on the world basically has access to them digit
really and saw this is sally don't work on that with them for the last month and i will take will be stepping forward and ah
if you have any questions about a contact me or anybody else on the committee and we're lucky as we move closer to it i will be sending out announcements probably in the newsletter or other other means so
hassan you want to talk about the
the top of the lectures i think that's another part of is very just very briefly i mean a some of you are aware that we've been in a digitization process of our whole backlog of lectures this is being done by our friend charlie wilson that process is nearly done he's also in he's in dialogue now with the
people in stanford to make sure that that his standards ah for digitization are consonant with with their standards we took turns out they are so that that's really good news had he's almost done i think within the next couple of weeks he's
going to be done with all of the cassette tapes and all of the cds so that would bring
bring bring together the body of dejesus digitized lectures between roughly nineteen eighty and two thousand eight or nine hum which is
a lot of lectures it's like three thousand lectures many of which most of which predominantly our sojourn nauseous lectures but they're also lectures by other bcc teachers by visiting teachers and it just going to be a great treasure all of
this is going to be pretty immediately available on a website ah that charlie hosts before it goes to or the
before it goes to stanford so in the very near future his whole body of material will be available for you to ah to listen to and to download from online the that it gets all i need to say
very exciting and we have more exciting news laurie would you like to talk about our midyear appeal know and actually before that i'm just want a couple points about the ballot i just to clarify so this is one of the few things that goes to members only we usually don't we don't really
lee distinguish between sanga and the specific mob members but this is one of the few things that does so the ballot will go to members and also it's a it's a google form and i would just like to alert you cause my test version went to promotions folder that if you have to spam i'm get without they'll go out tomorrow
by the end of the day i would a please check years promotions folder if you have one or spam also i just want to say that they mentioned quick quickly that if you if you want to be on the board but also if there's someone else in the saga who you think would be a good board member either way if you would like to serve or you think of summer
audi who you would like to see on the board for any for any reason don't wait don't weigh just let the committee now now and they they keep track and they talked to people and they keep a list and then what depending on what we need or want it at that election they look at their lives so don't hesitate
eight
it's a great thing to do
folk good
you should have them talk to the person they're nominating first before they announce it to good point we're good at fine yes thank you so did outlawry wanna give the little report oh yeah so um maybe some of you may be aware that we have a thing that we're calling the mid-year appeal which you may know
not think of that way but was a letter that a snail mail letter that went out in july and then it followed up with an email fundraising ah and we just this year we we asked for ten thousand dollars for unrestricted use kind of related to covered things we lost income from covert and also things
you may want to spend money on to bring do when we come back together what we might need to do and anyway the the amazing thing as we made thirty thousand dollars which is more than we've ever gotten and a fundraiser so thank you so much sanga we had a huge response to the letter and it's
so wonderful and meaningful for those of us who were working behind the scenes to feel your support and in this way and of course in many ways but in this way too so thank you so much
there's a big deal fell to everyone ah ok i think we're ready to have you'll be able to ask your questions or comments
and i'm gonna open up the chat so if people want to just say congratulatory words or are say things that they don't need to and we are going to do the blue hand raising because we're on two screens so blue hand raise if you want to speak and the jimena open up the chat as soon as i figure out how to do that and you can just put stuff in the chat or
also it'll turn this over to linda
turning into over to be and to my dog who is barking on i keep a tooth
a pleasure in and out of the room on so you might hear my dog as so we've got ample time now for discussion questions comments and
people know for the most part about raising the blue hand but in case you're unclear just open he clicked the participants are i can usually the bottom of the screen or wherever it is on your device and then on on the participants screen
you should see
actually i don't see it that interesting me because i'm a caused but you should all see raise hand and then we want to speak or just raise your blue head and i might add to if you want to just put your question in the chat box
you can do wonder the other of those or yeah
ah if you'd rather just have write it down do that but if you'd rather speak it out and engage in l
the conversation then give us a blue hand
you know
and this can be of course about what a all the contents of this meeting that we've just had
jackson there was quite a bit of important stuff
but also i think it's kind of like the open discussion that we have on monday mornings every month or so that is he have something else you want to raise i think i'll be okay to cause this is are all song a meeting
farley i guess you're just going to re i see your hand but it's hard to see everybody's hand so so those who can please use the blue hand but go ahead charlie and and meet yourself

no yet were a muted oh can you hear my yeah we can oh good my question was how does real hot to figure into the or scheduling at the end of the year
how i was on break the was on we hereby we're we're going to do in a brief there are plenty to do an abbreviated bro to towards the end of year not a me towards a later december rather than it's a traditional time
time because we wanted to make sure that all people are working were available it'll probably be a three day rule hot to one like a seven thirty two five or five thirty schedule or and i think the data of the nineteenth to twenty to the correct
i know what's on the calendar and yeah that's right anyway we did you get played plenty of advance notice when we ran it by this this has been approved by the by the practice committee
that's where played to do so that's what we thought we wanted to wanted to complete that and surgeon will lead that ah and also have the ceremonies afterwards
thank you i have a question in the mute or in the chat box from show gordon are there plans for a vice abbott
again i can speak to the
on
the the wisdom of the words in the past been made meant that we have put together when we call him a leadership on which actually funds
two habits which is kind of an unusual situation so we have an avid and of a servant and will continue to have and abbott and the a whatever we name the other position than a founding dharma teacher i'm so will continue to have that such city situation by the
we're leaving the question of whether the structure is after that to a later discussion on and to to for then the new habit and there are a number of other oh
structural questions that were raised in her the the board sponsors we called them ts although they resumed things right and some of them how to do with things like whether there should be term limits for rabbits and that kind of thing and those are the kinds of things that we anticipate taking up and when
ich
hassan has mentioned that he is quite willing to entertain so those are future conversations

nobody of the forty five or six people here
has an itchy blue hand
the ones stand and then ocher yeah
stand with june on mute yourself and big okay i want to thank
look for someone in fact surgeon and a hassan
for their work together on is a pattern
ah their leadership around the transition
it's very touching her the way air god i think the borders put together a good plan had to do to do this and know i was involved with some people on some of the transition to users were calling them
zero meetings and down
people came forward with some good questions or good thoughts and i think those got transmitted along the way to the board and to the to surgeon and to huzzah
slow this process is difficult but i think ah it's been done wholeheartedly hand i really appreciate pupils approach to it says super beautiful
oh
natalia

you said
so on
yeah cause and see if any body else wants to
one person suggested we do some small group soon as her actual hand up of soup okay disappeared but it's back so would you ah it disappeared because i didn't wanna leave it up but all hype mentally headed up
it was really nice to sit with all of you here all forty four five a view him
i wanna make sure you all know you're invited to participate and if you're new ah
i am it's a little tricky with covered but you're welcome to come to as far as i know practice committee meetings are still open and does the monday mornings at on eight forty and you know just start putting getting your feet wet on how we work so
week we need to have you all participating in the future of this place i also just phone us aside from thanking sodium and house on deeply
i told my granddaughter in an earlier conversation tonight she's the art school graduate ah about the archive at stanford you know and she was thrilled linda so i just wanted a bot the outfit
she knows a little something about our convenient she said oh wow isn't that great
so that gave me that was the kicks thank you all very much thank you for this beautiful meeting

wow

doesn't look like we're going to help
any other question comment discussion or hi leslie
oh
leslie or jake whoever that is please some on yourself and speak
okay i'll go first
i'm i'm just so appreciative of all the work that's gone into this process
i know it's been months maybe more than monster the years but i really appreciate when all of you have done
does that a lot of thought and talking to people and it feels
well and whatever
some of us can do to help you and a in the coming months you know it is wonderful and i think that the the zoo process has passed on
the pricing really well from when we first started all this so i think it's been a great way to connect with people in and to share these ideas and for you to inform us and how we're doing things and the ceremony on ceremonies will be interesting to and ah so on
i just want to show my appreciation thank you
yeah
hum so first of all it is so you're deeply encouraging hum
i think to know that were such great hands and we have been in great hands should we been held by surgeon
oh and who's on can now horizontal step into the atmosphere how me seems at this point
seamless come so i think that's a credit to
the habits into the board can keyboard for all you've done when i was how to say enclosing home
when i was bored president centers that well will the transition occurred during my tour good
yeah that's how will we get all the people into the zendo a good can this is going to be will have to have a screen outside and multiple screens showing the the mousy ceremony but now problem solved
doom
the whole world to be violent so i think that's kind of cool and in its own way and we'll see one another in the flesh synonyms and it was taken both warmly hassan and surgeon
love you yes
it out yet how can you see it mary yeah yeah mary want to unmute yourself magazine

oh i want to have factor where
fallon first and say welcome and i'm happy to recognize you as abbott
and look forward to it
and more importantly i want to speak to sojourn
here you are all good
this is wrenching for me
and it should be
if i were you i heard that you asked a friend of mine you said are you going to fall apart when i die and she said no no and i have well i am
oh and we just have different definitions of it i think i cause i think she was just as you i think she'll fall apart do anyway but i just the i this is so i have other ways of talking to you
and are i wasn't gonna talk about i thought no here and the middle of the song i wanna say that eleusis this is wrenching this is part of the process of
saying goodbye
and
i think it's the right thing to do and i think it's fine the now on a grade and blah blah
and i will still have a relationship with you anyway and it's ranching it's wrenching it's are
that's on ah
and i know you're not sure that caught yet
but this seemed like a time to say this year cause i'd love you very much
thank you
making mary
katie katie year
do get yourself
ma'am
hard to follow
mary fair but mom
i just want it to also a express my appreciation for surgeon and the board and probably and hose on and i'm sure people i don't even know about
making this transition so thoughtfully and so the so much care and so much attention to all the little things that matter to our health as a community or our bonds as a community
and now helping us
see one of the many ways of dealing with impermanence perhaps come and change and
as i am
i know hassan has been leading from in the middle of the pack in his own way for many years
and
i could think it's going to be wonderful
have you has an employee in the avicii i'm really excited
and also respecting of it
while feeling of it married

thank you katie how sandwiches which are new
yeah i was
thinking about whether to say something or not say something
and
ha i wanted to
kind of of wine myself with what mary most seen said ah i am
i'm fighting a it
it is not a question of my my confidence about
whether i can do the job of the advocacy a i think i can and i also don't underestimate how hard it is gonna be but the emotional ah
the emotional foundation of that
the
generational passing
and ah
the thought of the shifting relationship between me and sojourn in know at listener in a kind of mechanical way is ah
oh can not being here this is all this is very hard for me
and i just wanted you to know that that's not ah
and i were i'm noticing me said the more real this appears to get in terms of time lights and stuff ha
the harder it is
at the same time i'm really i'm fully committed to
our community
ah all of the things that that surgeon mentioned that
ah
our perspectives on how to be the abbot ah
yeah
i'm looking for
how to support you and in your practice which is the essential thing and how to be able to
work with the people who are here and i actually feel that the in this last period
the the pandemic a has ah really thrown us into working really into very intimate working relationships ha
and i appreciate that ah there's something missing in day-to-day physical presence of each other hard but there's something
heightened
about the creativity that's been necessary to sustain our practice and i think it it sets us up
well for coming round of change change and avicii change and what's going to you know what's gonna happen
how are we going to conduct our practice when we can get back together you know understand that that's probably not going be a scene was process and so ah
that's kind of what i expect to be collaborating with you all on otherwise i
i don't happen agenda or a plan
you know there's not a lot said
oh that i think i might want to change on the other hand we have an object lesson in how fast changes thrust upon us
how we have to grow and change in that respect so hum i think that's all i really need to say for com it's hard to it sir
just taking it one day at a time one step at a time and am i really appreciate that that's what the that's what the board has been ah has been creating this step by step process and and surgeon ah
really supporting and helping clarify that and leadership from from mary and others on the board and people in the saw get wide so
about you thank you

take another minute or so quiet and
seems there's anybody else wants to speak

well
looks like we've spoken just the right amount
went down feeling kind of a warm feeling run around here is for my funny
and down so maybe we adjourn was there any other ritual event that we do to say by will we can certainly say the bells but before we do which is work
thank everybody would it would have been a wonderful waiting just turn the heartwarming and we're going to have another really nice ceremony tomorrow we have seven members new members that are able to come we had others but not everyone can count to the work schedules etc so
hope you can join us it'll be at seven thirty and surgeon on will be participating of course and welcoming