Conference Call Notes from May 16

As part of many gathering participants response to COVID-19, there have been conference calls taking place alternating nights at 6 PM West Coast Time / 9 PM East Coast Time.

Discussions include to gather or not to gather, how to hold spring council, and other things as well.

If you want to be join, the next one takes place on May 18 and then every other night from there.

Dial 425-436-6350  access code 377587#.   This is a toll call if your dialing from a phone that charges by the minute.

Thanks to a anonymous person for taking notes. If you want all the details, you'll need to join in the fun.

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Rainbow Family Circle Call – #32 5/16/20

Notes from the call. Words and Ideas from the speakers on the call. 

No names are used. No identifying factors are included. Consent was gathered verbally on the call to publish these notes.  ON THIS CALL MY PHONE BATTERY DIED, AND I WAS ONLY ABLE TO LISTEN FOR THE FIRST HOUR. SORRY

Submitted by Sibling.

New moderator!  Thanks!

1 host and 24 people on the call – 7:21 pm

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Loving you and appreciating you.  I appreciate, no matter what each individual is thinking, we look to each other about things – we start to study things, and our goal is to not gather, and we already know this. We speak with our voices, and we encourage with our voices not to gather. 
I am an asshole, and you are family.  I love you, but anyone who leads our family to the gathering this year, M___M___ will remember you.

I look forward to seeing all your faces in 2021.

Poem

I am really enjoying the simplicity of my life now, I am now staying in the same place and have travelled lots.  I used to travel show to show, etc.  I am really like focusing on the now.  And there is something good about having your hands in the dirt, planning a meal.  I appreciate the slow down and I have grown lots inside myself.  You are amazing teachers, and if I am willing to stop and take a look at myself – my mistakes and I am learning. I am enjoying the new types of communication that we have been able to participate in.  I encourage people to get on the calls, get on the zoom calls – lots of fun, and you miss out on that you are crazy. I would like all of you to experience the connections we are making on Zoom. Thanks for letting me share my heart, and I hope you all are having a good slow down time

I think most of us are not going to the gathering.  Today – Idaho stage 2 – vote by mail, restaurants are open 25%, nails are open.  Only 10 people can gather for the next two weeks.  The state has done well so far. We are doing good with social distancing.  If you come out of the district (state) you must 14-day self-quarantine. 

In Coeur d'Alene ID, closing the summer theater.  Big deal.  Concerned for all involved, and taking care.  July 31  Art event closed.  Big Powwow was postponed, they say there are so many unanswered questions, they decided to not encourage people to travel. 

I love you all.

Thank you for being here, for being now, and for being you.  I would like to do an exercise to release things that are burdening us, and allow for things that sooth us.  Softer breathing, slow breathing, deeper breathing, you are invited to increase those things – let your breath slow, deepen, let your breath soften. And release any burdens you may be carrying for a moment.  Imagine you have a backpack you are putting down on the trail and releasing the things that are not helpful.  As you breathe, as you let go, and as you breathe, and as you let go, and as you breathe, and as you let go you are reminded any time you feel yourself becoming tense or feeling the weight of the things you are carrying – come back to your breath – you are safe. You are loved you are with family and community

Thanks your time and energy.

27 people on the call

What drew me to rainbow, how we were creating a new world, and if anything happened rainbow would be there to out the things together.  I feel this year, it is important to not gather, we need to keep ourselves save, and we are going to be needed to create a better civilization when it is done.

Things are going ok. Some pushback about the drum circle, this person does not believe Covid is real and we are just trying to keep people from gathering.

Thank you to the moderator.  Thanks for taking on the stacking.

Feeling pretty blessed. One thing I would like addressed about the RonaBow – people who are in support –do they have a sanitation plan? I am not in support of the gathering, I am in support of sanitation. We have the ability to change our world and our future, and think of it in a positive way 

Wow, I want to say, this idea of the small gatherings seem so smart, as long as you keep your numbers below 50 and everyone has their own water.  I hope we don’t have 500 – 5,000 people do this thing – it will be a mess.  We will have a mess