Okay, now that I am cozy in my red, white, and pink cherry checkered pajamas, I can try to recollect the collective phone call from Sunday... though the substantive quality may be questionable considering I took sketchy notes, the astrological aspects were aspecting and the telewonkavator was telewonkingout!

10:43 a.m. CST

Three hours and 17 minutes prior to the call the sun had just entered the sign of Aquarius. The 2008 Aquarius challenge? Commitment to a collective endeavor contrasted with the inherent need to be a rebel, a nonconformist! The cool aspect of this contradiction? It illuminates our unique and remarkable qualities.


2:10 p.m. CST

sandpiper joins the collective call listening in trying to determine who is who and what is what... finally she identifies the participants... zach, inel, and scatter... agustina joins in by listening and makes an unexpected cameo appearance later in the call... we got to hear agustina's voice... hooray! :)

Alright so wud we talk about? Well, the discussion eventually touches briefly on the proposed icarus project structure which is still in the works... something like a hub-and-spoke model, a central hub with spokes (i think scatter mentioned three main spokes: media, website, and support network, but i am not sure if i heard this right...).

Though this might not be envisioned as your usual wheel, hubcap and spokes folks! cos there'd be spokes of all shapes and sizes in different places and spaces radiating out of the hubcap... er, hub.

The idea? To create a structure which encourages and allows for a greater number of people (everyone and anyone interested) to plug in how they want to the icarus project... to broaden the circle so that more of us have a voice and an opportunity to influence and guide the icarus project even if we aren't directly involved in organizing.

(Of course when we talked about organizing I wasn't sure if we were talking about organizing at a national level or local level or both?) Anyway, scatter had mentioned the possibility of having six people (the hub?) meet twice a month, but we got kinda sidetracked, and didn't really go into more detail on this.

Oh yeah and I had limited feedback on the above topic because organizing and structuring is not my strength. I can't see organization and structure that easily. But I still want to participate and contribute to our TIP community so i'll be like one of those wavy wacky placed spokes or something...hahaha!

Okay, the one other topic we mentioned before I rang off was the idea for the August Icarus Retreat in Tennessee at the Highlander Institute. (See scatter's post above for more details.) We talked about the possibility of having it the first weekend in August ... August 1,2,3 to be more exact... before everyone goes back to school... for a group of about 35 icaristas . We discussed the possible purpose for the gathering... to nurture, cultivate, energize, and galvanize as well as to provide skills...

Personally, I think I really like this idea...it has potential...

3:20 p.m. CST

sandpiper cuts out of the conversation and pirouettes to the park with her pooches so she doesn't know how the phone call wraps up!