What this tribe is actually about:

2007-12-14T21:10:50Z

Chat with jadene fourman:

4:33 PM me: Hi jadene. i can't really talk long, and i wanted to apologize again for that lj thing - i had no idea he would publish that.

jadene: hmm. it was really pretty harsh.

4:34 PM me: i know. I don't know what to say.

4:35 PM i didn't want you to get hurt again. and i should know that you're a big girl and can take care of yourself.

5 minutes

4:40 PM jadene: what you and ben say about me reveals a lot more about the two of you than it says about me. ben and i both were in the midst of getting onto the same page about our mutual need 4 space from each other, and it felt like we had achieved the status of being on good terms as family, which is what matters most to me. i do understand his fear now because i went against my own intuition to follow this friend of a friend's advice, and it had more to do with something that happened to me 14 years ago than anything else.

4:43 PM me: yeah. I guess I should mind my own business - i don't know anything about you after all. I should send you some of the ones before that... I think in this one I seem to be hard on you when i've been doing all i can this whole time to mediate and try to make it so you two could still relate, because I don't see him have disproportionate response like that very often.

8 minutes

4:51 PM jadene: yeah, he is hurt and kind of dangling the now infamous "4 page blog" in front of my nose. you know, i think he and i will be on good terms if we get the space from each other that we have never had before this week, and then he's been kind of digging for a reaction from me via the portland burner list and posting your chat for me to see. in the beginning of that i.m. with you, he showed that he understands where i am realistically, as in getting him or whatever. we had a healing kiss and make up meeting during/following the soak llc meeting, based on that email i sent to the two of you - before that i was ready to dismiss him because of what he'd said i think in his blog. after we reconnected i could 'feel the love' again, which is i think how it naturally is between he and i, because we share a true family bond, like the kind of people who are very alike and can have great adventures together as, dare i say it, 'friends.' anyway, i've seen his kind of lashing out behavior before and don't hold it against him, although he's being hurtful, and i know perhaps he doesn't see it that way.

4:55 PM me: yes, i said i was proud of him for "sucking it up" and apologizing to you - he never ever does that. I'm glad to hear you say these things. Sounds very healthy to me. I feel the same about him - in fact i think we may be taking a break or something in the near future - the distance thing is really hard on us. and sometimes if he feels things aren't "exciting" enough he makes up conflicts. Which isn't what he's doing now, he's just being honest with me that he's feeling distant. So I don't know. and i feel like i'm part of the family too, so it will be okay.

4:56 PM jadene: as tough as it has sometimes been edie, i feel a real bond with both of you. :)

4:57 PM me: good - me too! i have to finish my work and go home... feel free to chat me up or email me anytime, or call me 206-799-xxxx.

4:58 PM jadene: i guess we have to trust that he will come around to this knowing without posting this conversation! or do we? ;) 503-935-xxxx

4:59 PM me: that would be super funny, if we just started posting online anytime we talk about him with each other, or with anyone. Do you realize he once compiled a year's worth of emails between he and i - anything that mentioned a certain person in any capacity, and then presented it to him in an excel spreadsheet? i was mortified!!
5:00 PM some of it was really embarrassing.

jadene: fuck yeah! if i didn't think it might cause even more trouble for him to hear anything from me right now, i would do it. you know him best and are closest to him, so you decide. more pure comic genius!

5:01 PM me: I'll have to think about it! 'kay I'll talk to you later... :)

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Watershed makes fun more work!

2007-11-13T04:14:15Z

P.S., Gypsy did you leave a pair of dark green sparkly fuzzy legwarmers here? If you did we're stealing them.

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[WARNING: not so meta] press packet / shiny neat thing to give out with grant requests ?

2007-10-23T18:54:35Z

This post is mostly for Eric and Ben ...

So a few days back you two were talking about putting together a packet or a binder of stuff about the shed ... and then I realized "hey, I don't really know what the hell has been going on there or the direction this project is going in ..." Do either of you want to put together the content regarding the vision and *what Watershed is about*? Or at least offer some direction? How have you been marketing and branding this? Once that's figured out then I can go around and snap some pictures and do the layout, make it all nice and shiny and turn it into a pdf etc.

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Concept: Free Speech Zone: say it, rather than do it in actions...

2007-10-10T08:29:49Z

A place to discuss our notably lax policy for standards of human SPEECH, while limiting as best as we are able, their physical CONDUCT.

;-b

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hey watershed people ... you're a bunch of sell outs!

2007-10-09T20:20:50Z