Full transcript of Feb.9 Planning Call for Evolut.Salon 3

COMPLETE RAW TRANSCRIPT: FEB. 8 EVO SALON 3 PLANNING CALL


1. BEGINNING MOMENT OF SILENCE

We began with a moment of silence.

2. PROCESS AGREEMENTS

Marc agreed to do notes.

Peggy:
Silent note-takers are invited to send Marc their notes.
Let’s say our names when we speak.

3. CHECK-IN AND EXPECTATIONS FOR THE CALL (AGENDA-SETTING)

Peggy (continued):
Let’s start with a check-in: Please state what you want out of this call. What do you want covered today?

[silence]

Peggy:
Here are some people I know who want to stay engaged but had a conflict for today: Tree Fitzpatrick, Tom Atlee, Halim Dunsky.

Here’s stuff I’m hoping to spend time on today:
- the invitation, a discussion around inviting people and what that looks like,
- the roles we need to make the next salon happen, and where there’s interest in playing some of - those roles
Lastly, I continue to marvel at the level of engagement and interest.

Margo:
I’m marveling also and would like to engage in what’s up.
- I would like to know the financial state of where things are at the moment.

Ashley:
I’m interested in connecting with what is this body of energy that is forming the next salon.
It’s nice to be in real-time, hear voices and hook in.

Marc:
Kenoli Oleari also wanted to be here but had a long-standing medical appointment; he plans to be on the next call.
I’m interested in discussion around questions I’ve seen asked:
- who would be invited to the next salon
- whether there might be fewer people invited
Like Ashley, I wanted to hook into the energy.

Susan:
Have been enjoying watching the energy build. It’s more than I can keep up with.
I’m on the invitation team. We have been working on the draft.
I’m interested in:
- the specifics about framing the financial piece
- figuring out more about the process.
- getting clear quickly on whom we’re going to invite, which we’ll need to do fairly soon, and which will shape what we’ll do at the salon.

Stephen:
In this moment, I’m an open vessel for listening and digesting ideas & offering what comes through me in that process. I feel a lot of excitement & curiousity as to how things will evolve in the course of what becomes revealed to us, and how it gets manifested at the next event. I bring enthusiasm, curiosity, joy.

Sheri:
Right now I’m feeling strong need for 2 aspects of this process to really be here in this call:
- attention to the details thus far identified so we can take next steps
- looking down the road in terms of … the reflection piece … and thinking about what we’re learning from this very process itself: How do we infuse our process with what we’re in the process of learning, so we recognize our role in terms of holding the container in the field?
I’ve been spending lots of time on the nexus site, and talking face to face with others; I’m interested in what people contribute in the present.

4. TODAY'S AGENDA

Peggy:
Here’s what I heard:
•    The invitation
•    Who to invite
•    Roles
•    Finances  
[Unidentified added:]
•    How to incorporate our learnings as we go

Margo:
It might be a good idea to do a round of briefly sharing our learnings first.
I’d be happy to take some time to do that here.  

Stephen:
Spending some time in reflection would serve us well.

[Tree enters the call while traveling on the East coast. She apologized for a time glitch.]

Peggy:
So shall we start with How what we’ve learned so far might inform the invitation?

[The Group:]
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

5. REFLECTIONS  ON OUR LEARNINGS

Margo:
There are three different “headlines” around learnings for me:
•    The idea of the urgency of the state of the planet and my realizing that when things are really urgent, time slows down. I’ve been holding that.
•    The whole of shifting one’s attention from individuals in the circle to what’s in the center, the middle as Finn would say. A slight shift but a profound difference.
•    Inquiry – this one takes longer to explain – the question of the sense of purpose of why people are there, and the different orientations towards the idea of evolution and how that affected the field; an area I’d like to explore

Peggy:
Two primary things I’ve been sitting with are interrelated.
1.    My own personal journey around this has been an increased awareness of sitting in dynamic tension; there were three tensions that showed up during the salon for me:
-    sacred masculine and sacred feminine. A lack of clarity around purpose tended to be there; I think this was the sacred masculine not showing up. The role of the sacred masculine is that
-    intervention/facilitation and holding space
-    spirit and matter - which shows up in relation to money
-    among the many perspectives or lack of knowing around the whole evolutionary story
2.    The capacity of being present in those tensions and able to be connected to the whole

The clear learning for me: This is what it looks like when the power of invocation isn’t fully realized early on.

Stephen:
Picking up what Peggy said, which catalyzed my reflections.
The last salon reminded me of an evolving young fetus organism growing childlike; we had  people who shared common values and had very different life experiences and life stories, and the dynamic between [1] a common unity being called forth intermixed with [2] the stories and ego of the past, and preferences, and how those two danced together. My sense is that by holding space with some gentleness, not tightly, but allowing the guidance of what’s being called through us, will emerge and people will each have opportunities to experience that dynamic in interplay within themselves.
I see myself as one of the many who are holding the gentle guiding space that helps hold a space for this to emerge, realizing there will be tension, conflicts along the way … as the new interfaces with the old … and stuff melts into its new form.
I’m trying not get my references too caught up in how it should be. I would like to see something greater evolve through that.

Peggy:
What Stephen said triggered one last thought. I believe the last morning was a shamanic act of creation … birthing a self-enlightened community.  A bodhi sangha.

Tree:
I was one of the people that convened the last day. It seems more powerful to me each day because of the way we did the money. I think there are a lot of exciting, shamanic possibilities that can be represented by the energy of money.

Ashley:
I’m sitting outside [now] … about 30 feet from me a purple-leaved bush in bloom is glowing in the sun. That sense of showing up is really present to me.
Watching individuals show up in fullness, and we as a collective being able to show up.
I feel this sense more now of this essence that’s trying to be burst through the universe.
There aren’t vessels big enough to receive it.  It needs a conscious collective in order to receive it. I carry that close in the flow of who we are and becoming.

6. QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PROPOSED DATE FOR SALON 3

Susan:
To build on what Tree said: sensing that whatever this is that’s coming through that’s emerging is so much more than the capacity of any one or few; it requires a self-enlightened collective …
I’m sitting in the tension of that and holding questions … about how this simple series of salons is unfolding, and the shape of that as a whole rather than thinking of each salon separately …
and I’m having some questions -- The date that we set, is that the time this wants to emerge or are we putting an artificial restriction on it?

Sheri:
I’ve had the same question about the date.
It was also an experience I had here locally with Imagine Cascadia, which had a lot of parallels with the Evo Salon. There’s a lot of similarities.
We had this thing about the date, and it drove us instead of the process driving us.
I resonate with a lot of what people said. The one thing that’s really been alive for me is how (I don’t know if we really named it as clearly as we could) the obvious distinction happening for individuals between Being and Doing.
There are people for whom the work, strategy, focus is in the Being, and others who come towards this work with the Doing.
I saw that so clearly and dramatically in myself, and I know my own evolution around that, so I felt that I could see the whole. If we could have named that more I think it would have helped people in seeing through their differences into what was emerging and how we nurture the field of emergence. I find that a rich inquiry. It’s been brought up a little on the website. I’m wondering how it plays out in terms of what we invite people into and how the next salon unfolds.

Marc:
I’m having trouble keeping up with the notes!
I’m almost surprised by the degree of resonance I feel with what I’m hearing. People are being quite eloquent. Peggy, I like what you said and the way others are following up on it.
To pick up Sheri’s thing of being and doing, and the issue about the date.
The date was thrown out quickly. It surprised me. I did ask myself the question whether it seemed forced.
This brought up for me the dichotomy of Being and Doing. Peggy, you called the last day a “shamanic act of creation.” I felt that, too. But I also heard that some people were feeling [during the ecstatic celebration] darkness and despair, because the action they wanted to see wasn’t occurring. That was not brought out into the circle.
I was then and am still sensing all these wonderful dynamic tensions. I’m looking forward to those tensions emerging and driving the salon to where it wants to go.
I’m feeling in tension with the people who really want to “shape” the salon and who are feeling that action isn’t happening quickly enough. I want to see these tensions and the others the salon is pregnant with come forth. Confrontations, differences, challenges.

Peggy:
Is that everyone?

[No response]

Peggy:
Speaking to the date: if we want to change the date, we can.
The date came from – as we were continuing to marvel at more and more people wanting to attend, reaching 90 and then more than 100 people, and knowing the carrying capacity of Whidbey would be exceeded (even at 80 we tested the sceptic system quite a bit), we (that is, Tom, Terri and Michael) figured, if we can’t expand the number of people, then let’s add another date.
That date was then chosen because that was the date available on the calendar that was both  “close enough in” for those who couldn’t come in January, and also “far enough out” to do some planning.
Whidbey is holding the date on the calendar. Whidbey hasn’t asked for money because they are really excited by the work.
We don’t need to be driven by the dates.
My bias: is that it’s indeed possible.
I don’t personally have an attachment if they are in the way.
It can change.

Sheri:
I want to clarify about the date piece … They had kind of driven Imagine Cascadia.
On the flip side … we could do this faster and we could have these conversations faster.
Maybe we could not spend so much time designing, trust the field more, and create space for the conversations as they are wanting to happen.

Ashley:
As I hear the story about the dates I wonder about the initial intention. It sounds like a spillover  from the last salon to some extent. In my dreaming mind, I ask, what would happen if the same salon happened with the new learning that evolved from us and the … next one. …  ?

Tree:
I think … I want to stay with the dates. It’s definitely doable.
Perhaps we’re shepherding the next event, but there is also the overarching movement, We can do work on both at the same time, and the simple planning of the next event. Then next event is only a piece of the next larger whole. There are 50 or 60 that want to come, who got turned away. We need to grow the field and embrace that energy.

7. QUESTIONS ABOUT THE LOCATION OF SALON 3

Marc:
One thing I’m asking is whether we’re possibly not only being driven by the date, but also to some degree by the place and the limits of its size. I realize there is an assumption that we are doing it at Whidbey Institute. Has there been consideration of a larger location, elsewhere?
Having the salon be a moving salon, occurring in different places, could even help even out travel expenses [i.e. between those who are near and those who must come from a distance].

Tree:
We have moved twice. I don’t think we should do it at Whidbey.

Sheri:
I was talking with Joy … and another factor is that Aldermarsh isn’t available that week.

Peggy:
There were only two weekends available in that time frame. The other is Mother’s Day weekend.
We felt we should not go with Mother’s day, so we chose the other.  
I don’t think there’s attachment to having it at the Whidbey.
There are pros and cons.  It was simple and in front of us to make that choice. None of it is set.
All of it is available and open.
The question I’m asking myself, frankly, is what are the givens, the principles in which we are grounded.
In a way, it’s too early to name them. It’s useful for all to sense into them.

8. WHAT DO WE REALLY WANT? THOUGHTS ABOUT IDEAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE

Stephen:
I sense part of the conversation we were just having had to do with those who couldn’t come to the salon because of restrictions. And we’re trying to compensate for that.
I want to ask: If we could do anything, what would we do?
Would we have a hundred people, 200, 500, 1000?
My sense is we would come to some sort of common unity around a maximum number that would feel right.
I’d pose to the group, What feels right in terms of number of people?
And then I would ask, Where would we hold this?
In other words, let’s first envision what we want to create, and then ask the logistical questions.

Tree [jumping in]:
One of the pieces I’ve been holding deeply, and I’m sheepish, I’m holding the money.
I want to say 200 people. But I also think that to build something strong and lasting ….  children’s bones don’t build overnight, they build in layers … one part of the body grows, then others catch up.
I think we could build an amazing economic structure that could allow us to do all that we want to do with money. I want to go fast, but think we need a couple more not 200 ones [i.e. a couple more smaller than 200] before we can take the money into the leap.

Margo:
I think we have the energy that most anything we create, or let emerge, is going to be good.
It feels good to be able to say that.
I also think it may be good to explore the other side. When I heard that Salon 2 had gotten as big as it had, my immediate reaction wasn’t positive. Larger isn’t necessarily better. It’s a value we have in this culture.
I wonder what a smaller salon, or more salons would look like.
Different kinds of things can happen with different numbers.

Ashley:
I’m holding Stephen’s question, what would we do if we could do anything at all?
What really rose in my vision: In May at Whidbey, tuning the field for a larger collective and continuing to hold space as we continue to grow.
Having the “we” as a body itself continue to grow, so we can then really hold space with growing numbers.

Peggy:
I love your image Ashley. There’s room for all sorts of salons of all sizes. It’s part of the beauty of it, as we learn what we’re doing. And taking more baby steps, so we can learn what’s the underlying pattern – whether we have 5 in a living room or an event of 1,000 – what are the underpinnings?
I have a bias for May because think it would be a wonderful place to continue to sense in and answer what are some of the patterns that can inform many different sizes and places.
The question we landed on is a statement of purpose, so we have that in our presence.
We are listening into the future: What is calling? Deep explorations about evolution, visions, where we are and where we might want to go as a planet.
Is that still the purpose we feel for the next salon?
We do need to be grounded in purpose.

9. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE, INTENT OR CALLING FOR THE NEXT SALON?

Sheri:
To answer Peggy’s question and Stephen’s. That purpose still rings very deeply for me, and I’m feeling it not just here & from the web, but in a lot of places. It’s a sign we’re on a kind of evolutionary pulse. I resonate with that strongly.
Some clarification, some questions articulated in the invitation were real good.
The second piece, imagining ourselves going more deeply, building the foundation, growing the body more slowly – so it can take off at an accelerated pace.
I would love to see us go deeper than we did, at the next salon.
And giving ourselves, trusting ourselves, being bold and feeling ourselves being experimental, as Tree said, too. I love that. With this we are also creating new economic models that can sustain our vision going into the future. Not just sustain this salon. It’s big. I get that when you say that.

Stephen:
Peggy when you talked about visioning the future, an image came to me. Some may know this, it’s in perceptual psychology, there are hundreds of billions of info that come to us at any single second; our perception of those is like a pinpoint on a vast tapestry. That says to me that what’s being called for comes to us as we attune, not necessarily with silence, but attune with attention. We can’t do everything at this next salon, and if we hold certain spaces anything can come through. My sense is that part of our sacred responsibility is to say yes to certain things, and no to others. In saying that no, we give more space to what we choose.
With limited facilities, and limited numbers of people, the focus of what’s calling through us, attuned to intention, e.g., what are we about, how we can go deeper, attuning for future possibilities? It’s a deeper question. What is the essence? How will that serve the greater picture?  I want to ask, what is the intention of what we want to create? What’s the essence we want to create the container for?

Peggy:
That’s a very profound question. I’d like to suggest a minute in silence for each of us to ask ourselves. What is the essence? What’s being called through us for this next gathering?
See what surfaces?

Margo:
What came to me was that in some ways when we’re listening in, the doing and the being become the same thing. The act of listening at this time is very deep, and something we’re all …
the task of listening itself is something we’re living into. The practice increases our ability to do what’s being called for.

Ashley:
Recognizing the patterns for sustaining emergence in the listening, the doing arising from being.

Stephen:
In terms of the being and doing, I’m reminded of the wave and the particle in physics. Sometimes it’s time to be a particle, sometimes a wave. If you’re a particle and need to a wave, there’s some discord there. There’s time for doing and time for being. Because we’re doing doesn’t mean we’re not being.
What I got was, I was feeling the planet, and the collective consciousness of humanity calling through. And feeling so many things going on, asking who are we and which of these do we embrace as our own?
The image that came to me was something simplistic, as what are the 5 or 6 areas that we as a group, as a salon organization – I’m using old language terms trying to say something new, I am holding a bigger image -- what are the new things we are holding a space for specifically? Things like consciousness, environmental, media – all the new things that came through the last salon.
My sense is, to come to clarity on these, these are the areas that are most alive or focused on, would be essential for creating an ability to pose future questions. We could go back to what we chose to focus on. Not to say that many things aren’t important; it’s just that we can get scattered if we listen to every bit of info that needs to be heard in the planning team. Checking in on a regular basis to adjust. My sense is the call for action requires for focus. …  My sense is that in some ways becomes institutionalized, if we would have trust that the being would come, the doing would come. Give us focus, who we are and what we’re here doing together so people can choose yes.  It’s not where I’m in alignment. That will synchronize or move this growing organism.

Marc:
I think that we can make an assertion (which I’m inclined to make and inclined to believe) that being is doing and vice versa, or we can assert that if others only “have trust” that, even if we don’t seem to be acting enough, that eventually we’ll get there. Both of those approaches are ways of trying to assert oneness, while in fact there may be a tension, or twoness. I don’t know that we need to assert solutions [e.g. that the “being or doing” tension resolves, or “if we trust, it will come”], I’m interested in instead exploring the tensions with which the group is pregnant. There is energy there, and promise. What I came up with, during the silence, as what I’d most like our intention to be, is to evolve ourselves as a group, to evolve the group that was there at the salon in seeking out our own interior edges, where they come against each other, to discover our tensions and go through them as a group and in that way achieve greater levels of mutual understanding, identity, and articulation – that’s the kind of intention that came up for me.

Margo:
I appreciate what you said, Marc. For me listening in isn’t necessarily coming to unity.  Hearing the different perspectives is really important, so I appreciate what you said.

Tree:
Not sure if this fits. I want to say that I’m looking forward to living in a world where being is doing, and the inner work of doing an event like this is seen as real and tangible.

Marc:
Where my tendency is to be a sort of Being guy. I wanted to hold a space for Being before those people who were intent on Doing, who seemed frustrated that there wasn’t more doing. Those two perspectives create energy, the tension we need to move the conversation forward.

Ashley:
Yes. I also hear you saying that you want to invite out more of those voices so that tension is more clearly present. You want to invite out those tensions.
On that note, looking at the language of the invitation, a tension that newly arises for me when I hear that purpose, the future orientedness of it and doing for the future.  
What is calling feels very now and present-centered for me.
What is calling is now future, but I also feel a need for listening for right now.
Not just what we’re wanting to emerge but what is emerging, to hold the tension for these.

Tree:
Question: just out of curiousity, is there anyone on this phonecall who is frustrated by the level of not enough doing?  

[Unidentified]:
Right now or at the event?

Tree:
At the event.  Anyone here who felt that way?

Stephen:
Me, I felt no attachment either way. On the call, I was appreciating what was going on.
I’m also recognizing there were questions of when the event should take place, and of the concrete answers that were being sought. Recognizing that it’s 3:15, I wonder when we are going to try and have those answers.

Tree:
I was in the Being camp at the Salon. I’m in the Being camp now.
The people who were frustrated with the (not) Doing are not on this call.
It’s ok they’re not. I just think it should be noted.

Peggy:
To pull it into a duality makes me cringe, and putting it into camps.
There is a tension.
I do sense what you’re naming tree. We haven’t heard from everyone.
Susan, I want to call you out specifically, because your name keeps popping up in my head.
And the energy of the call has a very Being quality to it.

Susan:
At the event I was definitely in the Being camp.
I’m sensing the tension that was there. I think it would be unavoidable for a group of that size and diversity, that that would be part of its texture.
I don’t think I’ve shifted from that.
The other thing that’s sitting with me. As we just did this little piece and I’m thinking about the purpose as we stated it, and now I’m hearing it differently. What’s trying to emerge now is more of a state of presence rather than the future; less of creating something out there and more of a question of what this collective is, what dynamism is there, what will emerge?
I don’t know … I’m getting more of a sense now, less of a focus on the future than on this emerging collective, more of becoming aware of that awareness and maybe tuning that a bit and reflecting and working with that, rather than creating something in the future.
At this point early on, is it time to focus on that? I don’t have a feel for it.

Peggy:
What surfaces for me, and it’s a combo of what you were just saying and what Marc was saying,
I perk up at the idea of invoking the dynamic tensions in this, the look at the future vs. what’s emerging now.
If this is an invitation to explore dynamic tensions, an aspect of that is becoming aware of the collective, and the being and doing exist in the nature of that as a focus. The question itself is a dynamic tension; it contains an invitation to both being and doing within it.
As a focus and an intention for the next salon, I like it because it calls me to content (around dynamic tension) as well as the experience of being in the collective with our dynamic tension.
It holds fertile ground for being and doing around our differences and being connected.

Ashley:
I also makes visible what often remains invisible.

10. GIVEN THIS PURPOSE – AN INVOCATION OF DYNAMIC TENSIONS – WHAT SERVES US IN TERMS OF STRUCTURE, NUMBERS OF PEOPLE, AND DATES?

Stephen:
What are the principles by which we do this? What serves this in terms of structure, numbers of people, dates? Once one thing comes through, like your question, Peggy, then other things can be seen in alignment.

Marc:
That sounds like a question for a next meeting not this one. A great question.

Ashley & others:
Yes.

Peggy:
Once we have a grounded purpose, we have a ground from which to ask the kind of questions you are asking Stephen.
Would the invitation writers be willing to craft all this into the invitation you are working on?

11. ASSIGNMENT: THE INVITATION WRITERS WILL WORK THIS PURPOSE INTO THE INVITATION DRAFT AND DISTRIBUTE

Tree:
We needed all this info to complete a draft of the invitation.
There’s eight minutes left for this call. When are we going to meet again?  
People said Thursday afternoons work, but not this Thursday [i.e. today?].
Thursday afternoon works for lots of people.
Finn said he might like to dial in, but for him it’s the middle of night in Europe.

12.  NEXT PLANNING MEETING: WEEKLY, THURS. AT 2PM
Peggy:
Shall we stay with this time? And if Finn wants to join us still, we can sense into that and see how to work it out.

Tree:
I’ll write Finn a note.
I will send an announcement to the 20 or so interested folks.
Let’s keep with a weekly meeting.

13. POSTING THE NOTES ONLINE 

Marc:
[responding to a request.] I will post the notes online, assuming I can figure out how.

Sheri:
I can help with that.

14. REFLECTION ON TODAY'S CALL PROCESS

Peggy:
I invite a reflection on how we’re working together on the call – about our process.
I’ll start: There’s a question for me … I gravitate to asking focusing types of question. I heard Tree and Stephen doing that too. And other people. I’m happy to play this role, and I have no attachment to playing it.

Tree:
I’d be delighted to do it. [Then again,] Peggy is a great master.

Marc:
Yeah.

Ashley:
I’ve appreciated the fluidity [solidity?] of the questions arising from different people.

Stephen:
A couple of levels on the call. There’s the content, and the notes. There’s also, a greater awareness of what we’re learning, what are the principles. Other than what’s been said, I’d like ask the group, other than about the content, what are we learning here through this call that holds the principles by which we can learn, and that we can pass on to others?
What is it that we are learning through our interactions that we can pass on to others and …

[Unidentified]: … that we won’t have to learn the next time… ?   

Stephen (continued): … um …  What is it about our group dynamics, about how we answer questions, about conflicting voices, what is the overall higher organizing principle that, if we can recognize and embrace it, will help guide us through these questions. ?

Margo:
I feel what’s going on, for myself, there’s a listening-in to where there’s resonance and an
awareness of the whole that brings in the edges, and brings in the dynamic tensions which are … the whole. Without the tensions there would be no substance, it feels like. I appreciate the dance we’re engaged in.

Sheri:
What Margo just brought up, brought forth something that’s been sitting with me in terms of our group dynamics and what we’re learning. And the last theme of the salon was collective intelligence and social creativity. But, as someone very interested in collective intelligence and wisdom, What are those practices and how are we holding that piece? I would love to have us explore that as a topic, a theme. Somehow it’s a little elusive, and I’ve been curious about that.

Ashley:
Something I’m learning that I noticed on this call, noticing what are the arisings as opposed to what I already know -- and speaking from that place of arising, instead of that place that already knows, and wants to say something.

Sheri:
I’m wondering … that seems so important … how do you quiet that part of you, or is it quieting … or what is that for you?

Ashley:
That’s a deep question. I’d want more time to answer. But just recognizing when I have something to say, that is good to say ….  and resting in the silence [presence?], if I can get to a place where it goes away or it comes back up, finding a centered place within myself of silence and stillness.

Marc:
That reminds me of a discipline it seems we were practicing, when we were in the big circle, waiting together for someone in the circle to realize they had something to say. Knowing when one had something important enough that it was time to speak, or else remain silent.

Ashley:
And I also felt a lot of tension … with the rapid-fire of expertise.

Peggy:
I want to do a time check. And I also have a desire to respond.
Can we take two or three minutes to bring this to closure?

All:
Yes.

Peggy:
When Ashley was speaking, I’m appreciating these two profound principles that Margo has named and Ashley has named: The principle of noticing what’s arising as opposed to what I already know. When I speak what I know, I speak from ego. When speaking from emergence, I speak from the center.

Stephen:
I remember from the salon the principle “embrace our discomforts.”

(silence)

15. NEXT WEEK’S PLANNING MEETING TASK: REFINING THE PURPOSE STATEMENT 

Stephen (continued):
As we close I’d like to have a sense that when we open next time we bring this question to the opening. What shall we bring to the opening of our next conversation?

Peggy:
What came to me, is to bring the refinement of our question of the purpose of the salon.

All:
Yes. Yes. Yes.  [three or four yes’s in the background]

Peggy:
Which I’d leave in the hands of the invitation writers..

Sheri:
Can they send that to us so we’re reminded of it before the next call?

Tree:
I propose … we’ve been working online on Nexus … that we send our working draft out to people before the phone call.  …  by Wednesday.

Peggy:
Whatever the overarching question is … be front and center.

[Several people had to leave. The call was ended.]