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Birdwatch, Feb 14, 2015
The Birds!
Announcing the Seventh-Annual Subud Bellingham/Skagit Bird Tour
Saturday, February 14, 2015
Bring your honey or treat yourself!
Gift Certificates Available
Cost: $45 per person
(accommodations available for out of towners)
Join us as we witness the magic of the Skagit River Delta, a winter birding paradise with an international reputation. You’ll see thousands of snow geese, hundreds of trumpeter swans, waterfowl and shorebirds. Raptors winter here in large numbers, particularly bald eagles, red-tailed hawks and a few merlin and peregrine falcons. Ravens and herons are numerous, plus other songbirds and maybe a surprise or two.
Along the way we will sample some delicious eats from artisan bakeries. At the end of the 5-hour tour, we’ll arrive back at the Subud house for a hearty and delicious home-cooked Valentine’s Day dinner fit for kings and queens (and yes, there will be chocolate!)
To register contact
Robina Page at 360 384-3222 robinapage5443@gmail.com
or Roomswati Reynolds at 360 734-8517 roosmiwati@gmail.com
Trip guide Paul Woodcock brings 50 years of birding to your experience and has led trips for the North Cascades Audubon Society for over ten years.This event is Subud Bellingham/Skagit’s annual house-maintenance fundraiser.
Susila Dharma Appeal
Dear Subud Members,
While sitting at an abundant table during Thanksgiving, I thought about those around the world that had no such full plate…only the grim despair of hunger and poverty.
With a year-end gift to Susila Dharma USA, you can help bring hope to the hundreds of people around the world who benefit from SDUSA’s charitable projects, including:
The Q Fund, which educates children in Africa, many of them orphans of the AIDS epidemic;
PUEBLO, which employs at-risk youth in Oakland, California in urban community agriculture;
YUM, which created an organic strawberry farm to support community projects in Indonesia.
Won’t you help us continue this important work by making a special year-end donation of $50, $100 — or whatever you can afford — to help us continue to our work? We simply can’t do it without you. Your support will make a real, lasting impact in the lives of those who are still in need.
To make your donation now, go to www.SusilaDharmaUSA.org/donate2014
Or mail your check to: SDUSA,50616 Hwy 245, Badger, CA 93603
The lives of hundreds of needy people are at stake.
Thank you in advance for your generous year-end gift to Susila Dharma USA.
With gratitude, Evan Padilla
Chair, Susila Dharma USA
Calling all members to test for The New Subud Greater Seattle Committee
I am excited to see who will be on this new committee in January, after the testing is complete. I’m asking each member to be willing to test whether it’s correct to for them to serve.
We’ve done much to create the stable organization that’s served you the last 2 years. The Region is willing to offer training to the new team.
For more details click here.
Help Represent Subud Greater Seattle’s Housing Needs
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
The Subud PNW wants to ensure that our Subud PNW Houses remain on solid footing from a maintenance, enterprise and cultural perspective. Won’t you bring your skills and expertise to this effort?
In order to plan for our future, so that our maintenance and outreach needs can be met, we’re reforming this committee with representatives from the 3 centers that have houses. We need and want a representative from Subud Greater Seattle. Will you be that representative?
For more information, please contact Oswald Norton, chair of the Subud PNW Housing Committee.
Subud PNW Minutes from 10/8/14
– Treasurers report
– The Subud PNW board has approved and adopted a written policy of Anti-Harassment and Anti-Discrimination. The policy is a part of the minutes.
– Menucha update.
Totals and other news before event.
– Regional Helper Report
– Regional Helpers Report.
For the full minutes click here.
Marius Hibbard Photo Exhibit
Longtime Subud member and world-class photographer Marius Hibbard is having an exhibition of recent photos he took in Croatia. It’s happening in Anacortes (see flyer below) where he lives and serves on the board of the Anacortes Art Commission. December happens to be Croatian cultural month in Anacortes. The opening is Friday and Saturday, December 5 and 6, at the Croatian Cultural Center. Everyone is invited. And check out the feature on the exhibition in Anacortes Magazine here.
Phillip Quackenbush Memorial
A group of 40, friends, family and acquaintances gathered at the Subud House yesterday for a memorial to Phillip Quackenbush, who died at the age of 78 on Sunday, October 26, 2014. There were Subud people, members of the Council House residential community and even members of a non-duality discussion group of which Phillip was a member.
Francesca Cameron and Oriana Quackenbush, Phillip’s ex-wife and his daughter organized the event and Oriana emceed the proceedings.
Some notes and photos from the event are expected soon. In the meantime this short poem taken mostly from notes I took at the event:
Menucha Scholarship Fund
Menucha
A workshop was held at Menucha this year, the annual Pacific Northwest Regional Kejiwaan gathering and a report was created Paul Woodcock, with comment from Morris McClellan. Among their recommendations:
1) Create a permanent Menucha Scholarship Fund and state its purpose with clarity and inclusiveness. Spread the word that the purpose of the fund is to raise money so that all who wish to share the Menucha experience can be included.
2) Raise funds year round by promoting donation on the website, regular solicitation and several annual fund-raising events. (I suggest that we should start raising money for next year at the end of each Menucha by “passing the hat” for next year’s scholarship funding, maybe a Menucha evaluation/feedback form each year with a solicitation at the end and inclusion of a fund-raising mention with all Menucha- related communications etc.? PW.)
3) Find a volunteer fund/funding program director under the Regional Commitee to help oversee the fund and fundraising and not add these duties to an existing committee position?
4) Funds should be distributed by the method currently used. The process needs to be kept simple (through a personal statement of need by each scholarship applicant?). If there are funding requests that cannot be met one year, those applicants should be moved to the top of next-year’s list. (This important part we did not thoroughly discuss.)
You can download the whole report here: https://www.subudgreaterseattle.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Menucha_Where_Do_We_Go_From_Here__Discussion_Report.pdf
The next Menucha gathering is November 12-15, 2015.
General Meeting Minutes N.14.14
Subud Greater Seattle General Meeting
Minutes: Friday November 14, 2014 Eastside. Minutes taken by Hadiyah Carlyle.
Present: Anne and Evan Padilla, Hanafi Libman, Oswald Norton, Paul Nelson, Ida and Rachman Cantrell, Insiah Caspers, Kathleen Gillette, Elijah Gullixson, Hadiyah Carlyle. Elisha chaired the meeting.
Financial:
Paul gave report as Sherwin was not available. Our member donations are down and Air B&B has slowed down for winter, but we’ve exceeded our 2014 projection of $20,000 with $45,000 in revenues by October 31. It is a clear Subud pattern that donations go down as revenues from enterprises go up, so we have to be vigilant in asking members to donate.
Helper Report:
Both men and women have been testing for harmony and …. after latihan. Helpers seemed to be pleased with this. Elisha suggested that if he were to move to Seattle and be part of this group, he’d think it was a healthy and vibrant group and it was consensus we should recognize that.
Spring Street Center:
The good news is that we received the MSF grant of $10,000 for the handicap ramp that we would like to install. There is more work to be done and hope the new committee will take us forward on this. Another $5,000 will need to be raised for the chapel crash bar doors. As regional vice-president Oswald said there will be training for the new chair and we will be working now as a region with common problems. We hope to think of ourselves as a bio-region and have more activities with other centers in the area.
We are planning an Open House, Saturday, February 7, 2015 at the Subud House and plan to put posters around the neighborhood to invite folks to know more about their 40 year neighbor.
SICA:
Paul reported on recent trips to British Columbia and the effort to use the Cascadia Poetry Festival, which he founded through his non-profit organization Seattle Poetics LAB, and SICA as an outreach effort for the Subud cultural wing. The fest will happen in Nanaimo, BC in 2015 and there will be a significant Subud presence there and perhaps a renewal of the Subud community that had been active there. Paul is also doing outreach to Portland, in the hopes of landing the 2017 festival there at the Subud House and Portland State University and hopes to have the 2018 fest in Canada, either Vancouver or Victoria, including Subud communities as a large part of the organizing committee for each fest.
Menucha
Oswald spoke about building community and the mission of Menucha. It will happen again the second weekend of 2015 and the notion of making the event open to anyone who wants to attend while still making the finances balance out is the quest now.
Upcoming Events:
(Photo by Rachman Cantrell)
Tomorrow (Nov 15) there will be a memorial at 2PM for Phillip Quackenbush. His ex-wife Francesca Cameron and daughter Oriana are staying at the Subud House.
National Dewan and Committee will be meeting in Seattle weekend of Nov 21-23. They will do latihan with members on Sunday. We need volunteers for meals and transportation. Please contact Sebastian if you can lend your much needed services.
Jan 25, 2015 we will be testing for a new committee. Please come and pre-test if you might want to serve.
The annual birdwalk for the Skagit Valley group led by Paul Woodcock will take place Feb 14, 2015. Annie told us what a wonderful day it is, seeing hundreds of eagles.
Evan reported that the National Susila Dharma Board will be meeting at Seattle in February on the 21st & 22nd.