well, my friends, sad to say i have decided that come september i'll be ceding my place in moishe house boston to somebody new. however, one result of that decision is that i got to spend some time in the past couple weeks being part of the amazing decision-making process of who gets to be next year's team. we had a whole set of really talented, compelling applicants, and deciding who would be the biggest assets to the house, and the best team working together, was a truly challenging and fascinating process. luckily our community member Nina put together an amazing application form, series of interview questions, and evaluation mechanism, and a dedicated team of volunteers got together and contributed HOURS AND HOURS of patient time reading and listening and discussing. the upshot is that we have an absolutely AWESOME team waiting to go live next year. Margie will be staying on, joined by another 3 kick-ass women with professional skills in organizing, Jewish learning and a whole bunch of community-building expertise!
knowing i'm moving out is also inspiring me to get several things really firmly in place over the summer. these include
- making sure the movie night team can run itself
- making sure the healing circle has proper leadership so it's sustainable too
- helping a bunch of really cool guys consolidate a men's group
- cleaning out the shoe-room and transforming it into a cozy arts and crafts space
- completing the text and pics on our website
- rationalising and concretising our communications structures, with our kick-ass new communications team
- and last but not least getting a solid arts committee in place to bottom-line monthly crafternoons and skill-shares, movies, clothing swaps, movement workshops and other such activities. hooray!
once school gets out in 2 weeks i'm gonna be a busy lady...
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