Daily Archives: August 19, 2009

ATC Postulancy Seeker Packets due this Saturday

Hi all,

I just want to  remind everyone that seeker packets for new postulants are due this Saturday, August 22.

New students accepted into the postulancy can expect to be contacted at the end of this month.

The postulancy ritual is scheduled for Saturday, September 12 at 7PM.

Your options are to bring them up to the Diana’s Bow ritual on Saturday and give them to Debbie or to Jeff Harris, or to email them to myself, Debbie or Jeff.

Please direct any questions you might have about this deadline or the postulancy in general my way.  I’ve been out of the loop and out of town for the last little while, but I’m back, connected, and ready to address any questions or concerns you might have.

I’ve had questions from a few new postulant candidates regarding the required sponsorship.  I’d like to address those here.

Your sponsor is not the same as your mentor.  All students accepted into the postulancy will be required to have a mentor, but you will have plenty of time to find or to be assigned one.  We are more than happy to help you with this.  The sponsor is simply any tradition member who you have interacted with any knows you fairly well.

The reason for the sponsorship is two-fold.

One, it gives you a chance to ask basic questions about the postulancy before deciding whether to take the time to submit a seeker packet.

Two, it gives us a chance to know you a little bit more through the eyes of one of our tradition members.
Your sponsor is simply there for you and for us at the beginning of this process, and the sponsorship ends at the time of the postulancy ritual.

Most of you have contacted me about a sponsor and many of you have already contacted me about a mentor as well – that’s great!  But if any of you still have questions or are unclear as to what the requirement is, please don’t hesitate to contact me off-post.

Brightest Blessings,
Carolyn

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IT’S HAPPENING! We DO create our own reality!

Thanks to the folks who have showed up in the past few weeks or so, the building project is moving again (but we need your help desperately!  See below.)

There’s a new and very serious problem though.

Because we are doing this ourselves, without a licensed contractor working on it every day, our Fire and Liability  Insurance carrier, Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance Company, has cancelled our insurances because the project is moving “too slowly” and they feel their exposure to possible claims is greater.

Nationwide also decided that my home is “a commercial use” because it’s owned by the church and, somehow that being in a gated community is bad (we’ve had that gate here since 1956, long before they started insuring me). There are a few more “excuses even sillier than those.

So, there is now a great time pressure for us to complete the work before we will be able to get fire and liability coverage back. All the firms our broker contacted have refused to insure us because of Nationwide‘s cancellation, so we’re stuck without fire and liability insurance until we get the construction finished.

Those of you who may have insurance through Nationwide might consider their treatment of us, and switch to a more reasonable insurance carrier, to make a social statement about their behavior in our case.

I can report that:

The railroad ties HAVE BEEN moved into place and we can now have  the dirt pile in the front yard leveled, thanks to Paula, RC, Carrie, Eric and Ryan. Once that’s done, we can pour the concrete for the entry way  and the little porch above it.

The gardens have been weeded and look very pretty, thanks to Julie.

The flagstone in the Pan Shrine is almost finished, thanks to Cassie, R. and Carrie.

The finished siding is going up pretty fast, thanks to Anthony and Ray K.

Pretty soon, we can put on the window & door trim and caulk them rain-tight.

A substantial of the electrical work is finished, thanks to Touran. Once the remainder is done, we can install the wall and floor insulation. Then comes the interior wallboard, followed by spackling and painting and finished flooring. It’s like a daisy chain, one job after another, in a set sequence.

It’s ALL COMING TOGETHER, with your generous help.

EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED TO EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED TO …YOU, our hardy friends.

Pete

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