Perry L. Gardner: Private Journal #16
Monday, July 25, 1988
It has been a good two days since we came down off the Magic Mountain, and I am on a new plateau, feeling insightful and full of love—more sensitive to the world around me and more effective as well—I went to Laurel Park and changed the starter on Big Ginger and drove her home (he/she)?
I want to send letters to everyone on my list and proclaim the good news. And maybe I will only send out a few letters, but right now, it is Bob and Elinor, our leaders, that I most want to show appreciation to. Ruth can get it directly.
And I want to let my family know somehow—each and every one, that I love them too. Including the prodigal son, Dan.
Well, back to the popcorn identification—Worship services to develop—
Chief Red Fox/Custer’s Last Stand.
MBTI and what it means, with follow-up workshops and follow-up programming for community building—I must develop my vision for a UUFH statement, so I can be clear in communication. MBTI. Will be an interesting game for some, and a valuable tool for human understanding for others like me.
And revitalize the Creative Worship Workshop, and work with program committee to make things happen—maybe the council is the entry?
Other programs so far: Co-dependence and the 12 step programs, new age with dawning of the Age of Aquarius. The Goddess, Mists of Avalon, Chief Red Fox and Gaia, God, money and economic theory. Fear and Courage, and the Little Red God within. The Magnolia Tree and Insufficient Process—Who has the most to lose if the tree is cut down now? The minority or the majority? UUs are generally against the death penalty—Would bringing this up be disruptive or a healing experience—What are we afraid of?
I am afraid I do not have much interest in chairing the Social Action Committee relative to my interest in program integration, but that is what Ruth Lyon said about program integration, as I read her, a couple of years ago.
Incidentally, we should all have MBTI’s to use in forming our committees, so we could get balance of types in them.
If the choir had a list of songs to work on so they could be ready when the workshop needed them—such as, “If We Only Had Love” from Jacques Brell. I don’t know which program it would fit in, or when that program would be, but its universal message is one I would like to share. I am an INTJ and would like to do my own program with a little help from my friends, but others might be more comfortable with the support of a group doing a project together.
Here’s another— “The Child in Us”
The Reluctant Dragon—The Credo I Live By
Bobber, and All Life is Meeting—Building Our Community
Music from Victory at Sea—why goosebumps?
More of the Vision—An approach, plan, and strong directive leadership in initiating events
Tuesday, July 26, 1988
- * We are our own gatekeepers.
- Safe Haven—UUFH a sheltered workshop where we can try and fail and try again in a safe community—The redemptive community.
- A vision to work on: building this community even stronger. Life is in meeting.
- Report from Unilead to the Beacon.