I've started working on the website and my neighbor friend Bridget said she'd be into helping out and maybe some of her friends would be interested. Bridget is an artist who does great ink drawing/paintings and she welds sculptures. One of my recent friend crushes. I love meeting people through projects so I'm glad she's interested in contributing. So far she's sent me some art I'm going to be using as banners and images on the web.
Another thing that happened recently is that I went to a gathering of college Alums. There was a fairly good turnout. I guess people are seeking community... Or at least I was. I like the genre of person I went to school with--people who are interested and active. Anyway, I think I will put the word out to them and see if anyone wants to help organize. And if they don't want to organize maybe they'd like to attend.
Thursday, April 18, 2019
The Start
I just had my first meeting with Freelin Hummel. I had posted on Nextdoor to let my immediate community know about my idea of a Halloween Trick or Treat loop for adults. I needed to find more people to co-organize with who were more enthusiastic than my boyfriend. It's no fun to drag someone into co-organizing. There was a pretty good response--especially for April. Unfortunately not too many of the responses were about co-organizing. Most were letting me know they would be willing to have people show up at their house. Two people were open to organizing and one of them responded to followup emails--Freelin Hummel.
I had no idea of who I was going to meet. In fact it wasn't clear if I was meeting a woman, a man or someone who preferred not to be gender identified. I assumed Freelin Hummel was likely a Nextdoor 'handle'. But no. Freelin is using his real name. Freelin looked like a possible ex-hippie who might be in the tech world. He had blondish brown chin length hair that was in ringlet curls. Who was he and how would he be was yet to be discovered. As it turned out he was a really nice human being with great ideas, grounded energy who was ready to help co-organize. In fact he brought up the question of liability, something I hadn't considered and said he would look into it. The kind of task I loathe doing. Yay!! We're off. We met at Ms. Zumsteins at 3 on Monday and we're going to meet back there in about 3 weeks. We both have Mondays and Fridays that are more flexible. I had to appreciate how if I trust the universe it tends to provide. The universe in this instance was Nextdoor.
Freelin and I came up with a basic outline of what we would be doing as first steps. Our general mission right now is to start getting the word out. Figure out which community is expressing the most interest in the NE region so we can figure out where to do the loop and find a few more co-organizers. We also wondered about 'the guy in our area who did the Blair Witch documentary.' I know he is into Halloween because he made great haunted houses when I was living in Concordia. Anyway we've figured out he is Gregg Hale and we're hoping we can be introduced to him... Maybe this would interest him.
Here's our initial 'to do' list:
I had no idea of who I was going to meet. In fact it wasn't clear if I was meeting a woman, a man or someone who preferred not to be gender identified. I assumed Freelin Hummel was likely a Nextdoor 'handle'. But no. Freelin is using his real name. Freelin looked like a possible ex-hippie who might be in the tech world. He had blondish brown chin length hair that was in ringlet curls. Who was he and how would he be was yet to be discovered. As it turned out he was a really nice human being with great ideas, grounded energy who was ready to help co-organize. In fact he brought up the question of liability, something I hadn't considered and said he would look into it. The kind of task I loathe doing. Yay!! We're off. We met at Ms. Zumsteins at 3 on Monday and we're going to meet back there in about 3 weeks. We both have Mondays and Fridays that are more flexible. I had to appreciate how if I trust the universe it tends to provide. The universe in this instance was Nextdoor.
Freelin and I came up with a basic outline of what we would be doing as first steps. Our general mission right now is to start getting the word out. Figure out which community is expressing the most interest in the NE region so we can figure out where to do the loop and find a few more co-organizers. We also wondered about 'the guy in our area who did the Blair Witch documentary.' I know he is into Halloween because he made great haunted houses when I was living in Concordia. Anyway we've figured out he is Gregg Hale and we're hoping we can be introduced to him... Maybe this would interest him.
Here's our initial 'to do' list:
To start with:
- article: neighborhood assoc: Beaumont, concordia, cully, star
- Blair witch: Gregg Hale portland, or
- Basic website
- sign up for mailing list (mail chimp)
- mission statement
- flyer
- map
- BLOG
- solicit volunteers
- Insurance, what we need FH
Loop established—>
Door to door
TO DO:
Catherine: put up mini site, mail program, write initial article, send to Freelin, contact Peter about friend at Star
Both: Anyone know Greg Hale?
Freelin: set up Trello, look into insurance, re-writing on article, figure out contact for Concordia newsletter
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