If you have suggestions or corrections, please contact any member of M&C.

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A retreat sponsored by the NYM Spiritual Nurture Committee

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Northern Yearly Meeting members and attenders are invited to a contemplative weekend retreat grounded in silence and listening deeply within and to one another. Held in the quiet indoor and outdoor spaces at the Christine Center http://www.christinecenter.org/near Willard Wisconsin, this weekend is an opportunity to set aside one’s daily routine and to retreat for personal reflection and spiritual nurturing. Participants may be led to consider their spiritual autobiographies; their current spiritual condition; what kind of relationship they want with the Divine; and what actions they may wish to take to accomplish that.

Voluntary participation in large and small group activities and time for individual reflection will be offered. Individuals, as well as established groups, are welcome–be they existing or past Spiritual Nurture groups or meeting committees that wish to strengthen and renew their alignment with one another and the Divine. The retreat will be held April 26-28, 2013 beginning at 7:00 PM Friday until noon Sunday.

ACCOMODATIONS: The Christine Center is located 40 miles north of Black River Falls, WI. Double rooms are in the main building and modern hermitage cabins. Tent and RV camping is available, or double occupancy in rustic hermitage cabin (heat & electric but no water – shower house nearby). Meals are vegetarian. Space is limited.

TO REGISTER:

Complete the registration form and return it with your deposit (checks to NYM) for the retreat to Elizabeth Evans so she receives it by March 15, 2013. Contact her at elizabevans@gmail.com for mailing address.

Scholarships are available, and support for them is encouraged. Since the costs of the retreat are so close to the prices charged, we appreciate scholarship assistance in order to enable those who cannot afford the retreats to participate. If you have substantial financial need, please ask your meeting for support as well.

Allergies and Limitations: Please indicate any food allergies or mobility limitations on the registration form where indicated. Also indicate any special scheduling issues of arrival and departure. Participants are asked to use only fragrance free personal products.

Cancellations: Because of retreat center requirements, the deposit is nonrefundable after March 15, 2013.

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We offer our Meetinghouse for groups and organizations to use. We like to accommodate good causes and be a resource for our neighborhood.

We ask that renters respect the Quaker values of tolerance and respect for others. We reserve the right to cancel rental agreements for events that we believe are inconsistent with those values.

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TCFM is pretty special, as Quaker communities go. Not “better,” than others, but “valuable and unique, in its own peculiar ways.”

And what are these ways? Specifically, what does TCFM community mean to you? The good and the bad. In what ways are you nourished? Frustrated?

CDFR wants to know. We are undertaking a series of home visits to get to know individual Friends better, and to learn more about the community as a whole: the particulars of our strengths and weaknesses.

CDFR currently consists of Richard Fuller (clerk), Lisa Day, Jeremy McAdams and Tami Swiggum. We visit in pairs, for a little more than an hour, or a lot. It’s REALLY NICE! We have more in common than we get a chance to notice, in our brief and busy times together, and a quiet, focused conversation turns out to be a wonderful thing.

We have a handout of Queries and Questions, which you can see here.

Please, consider having us for a visit. Talk to any of us, if you are interested. Or just contact Lisa [contact-form-7] or call her, 651-402-9262, to schedule a visit.

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Providing emergency shelter in Ramsey County for children and their parents working with dozens of area churches, synagogues and schools, Project Home provides 40-60 beds of emergency shelter for children and their parents in Ramsey County each night.

During fiscal year 2011, Project Home emergency shelter beds were slept in 12,689 times.

Your Opportunity!

Friends School of MN invites TCFM to support homeless families. In March, FSM provides hosts for Project Home in the evening from 5:30 pm until 8:30 pm and overnight from 8:00 pm until 7:30 AM.
Please join in as a host. Contact Rebecca Slaby, or Carolyn Carr. The Sign-up link is in the Feb 19th, 2012 Announcement Sheet.

Brief Shift Descriptions

Evening Shift (5:30 – 8:30 pm)

Help to set out snacks, play with the children, help with homework, talk with families and help them to get settled in for the night.

Overnight Shift (8:00 pm – 7:30 am)

Support the evening shift, continuing with the evening shift duties and help the families get settled in and to sleep for the night. Bring bedding so you can sleep in a designated area. You would set out a simple breakfast in the morning and do light clean up after the families leave, usually by 7:30 am or earlier. (The Friday and Saturday night shifts go to 8:30 am).

SPACC PDF Volunteer Descriptions

As Ministry and Counsel strives to balance its charge to hold the spiritual health of the Meeting at large with the concerns and care for TCFM’s individual members and attenders, we are creating a number of small working groups within the committee. These groups are charged to focus on and bring forth ideas and energy on a number of the “larger issues” that often get lost in the fullness of M&C’s work.

The first of these is a working group on nurturing Meeting for Worship comprised of Lois Yellowthunder, Mary Ann Crolley and Bob Schmitt.  This group brought forward to M&C both content and some process to nurture our weekly worships.

A selection of excerpts on worship from the TCFM website, the Faith & Practices of Northern Yearly Meeting, Britain Yearly Meeting and Pacific Yearly Meeting will be used to focus our attention to ways we can individually and collectively deepen and open ourselves to the movement of the spirit.

Each of these excerpts resonates with the others and also brings its own singular light to the topic.  We found a richness in the collection of 4 than there might be in selecting one or trying to edit it down to one statement.  We are also aware that the words in each of these excerpts had been held and labored over by 4 communities of Friends.

A small plan

Cards with one of the 4 excerpts will be placed on the Meeting room chairs monthly.

Also once a month, the M&C closer at each worship will read one of the selected 4 excerpts at the opening of worship.

During the coming year, M&C will also facilitate a series of 3 Adult Education sessions focused on our individual and collective experience of Meeting for Worship: how do we prepare for it, kindling the fire of worship, and carrying the experience outward in our lives.

Below are the 4 excerpts. Friends are invited to hold these.

If you feel a leading to speak in Meeting

Ministry & Counsel suggests that you hold that leading up to the Light with these considerations in mind:

• Does the Spirit require that I stand and deliver my message, or can I comfortably sit quietly and not speak?
• Is my message a religious or spiritual one: a message of worship?
• Is the message I want to share intended to be given in ministry to others, or is it a leading meant for me alone?
• Is what I have to say part of our shared worship or is it just speaking of my own feelings?
• Is what I say short and to the point?
• Am I speaking my message before the Meeting has had ample time to reflect on the last message, keeping in mind that considerable silence between messages deepens the ministry of the Meeting?
• Am I speaking clearly and distinctly so all can hear?

—Excerpt from TCFM Website

Vocal ministry and careful listening are equally treasured elements of our worship.

• As individuals we do not initiate messages without clear prompting from the Spirit.
• When giving vocal ministry, we are asked to mind the Spirit,
• to keep close to the root of the message,
• to avoid unnecessary words,
• to speak clearly and distinctly so all can hear,
• and to allow time between messages for each message to be weighed carefully.
• Vocal ministry does not take the form of dialogue.

—Excerpt from Faith & Practice Northern Yearly Meeting

Remember that to every one is given a share of responsibility for the meeting for worship, whether that service be in silence or through the spoken word.  If the call to speak comes:

• Do not let the sense of your own unworthiness, or the fear of being unable to find the right words, prevent you from being obedient to the leading of the Spirit.
• Ask wisdom of God that you may be sure of your guidance and be enabled humbly to discern and impart something of his glory and truth.
• Pray that your ministry may rise from the place of deep experience, and that you may be restrained from unnecessary and superficial words.
• Faithfulness and sincerity in speaking, even very briefly may open the way to fuller ministry from others.
• Try to speak audibly and distinctly, with sensitivity to the needs of your fellow worshippers.
• Wait to be sure of the right moment for giving the message.
• Beware of making additions towards the end of a meeting when it was well left before.

—from Britain Yearly Meeting, Faith & Practice, 2008

As one is weighing whether to speak, certain questions may be helpful:

• Is this message Spirit-led, or merely emotionally compelling?
• Is this message intended for this group, or is it only for me?
• Is it better saved until another time or place?
• When the call to speak is clear, the worshiper should stand if possible.
• He or she should speak simply, briefly, audibly, and from personal spiritual experience.
• Occasionally, ministry may take the form of singing or of standing silently.
• Neither debate nor discussion with previous speakers is ever appropriate,
• And speaking twice during a single Meeting for Worship is very seldom so.

—from Pacific Yearly Meeting, Faith & Practice, 2001

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Our meeting times are:

2nd 1st Day (Sunday): After 11am Meeting (~12:30) at the Meetinghouse

4th 1st Day (Sunday): 5:30pm potluck in one of our homes.

To find the location of the potluck, call Joseph at 612-272-6461. To get on the Young Adult Friends e-mail list-serve, contact Matthew at matthewfbyrnes@gmail.com

Worshiping Together(WT)-3 is THE MAIN PAGE for what we expect the next few “Worshiping Together Sundays”  to look like.
The next WT Sunday will be October 10. (Sunday Oct. 3 is Family Meeting.)
The longer-term thinking, based on the experience of recent Sundays, will be found at WT-4.

Please offer us your comments at the bottom of this page, or bring your ideas about this to the Worshiping Together table during Fellowship time. Or email Richard at Richard.Osbo.Fuller at gmail.com.

*  There is a handout for parents outlining how this works.

First Day School starts at 10:55 on “FDS Sundays”

First Day School Sundays are the 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th Sundays of the month.
(On the 1st Sunday of each month we have Family Meetings with children and adults gathering in the Fellowship Room at 11AM. This is in addition to the regular 11AM worship in the meetingroom. On the occasional 5^th Sunday we have inter-generational worship: 30 minutes of centering worship in the meetingroom for all ages.)

On FDS Sundays parents should have children in the classroom by 10:55.

The next “FDS Sunday” will be October 10, and therefore also our next Sunday of “Worshiping Together,”

during the last quarter hour of 11AM meeting for worship.

In the first weeks of Worshiping Together, we expect to spend some time figuring out how things need to go for this to be a rewarding experience for all. We will necessarily enter into some periods of confusion, and we look forward to them.

For detailed attempts to think this through, week-by-week, see WT-4.

* CURRENT PLAN: children do NOT bring work done in class to the meeting room.

IN THE MEETING ROOM, APPROX. 11:45-12:15, M&C has responsibility

M&C will try this on September 26, and then revise it, as necessary.
Tom Stoffregen is the M&C contact person on this.

* Where will the youth sit, in the meeting room?

• DRAFT PLAN: When a family knows ahead of time that the children (or teachers) MAY want to join family members already in the meetingroom, they should agree roughly where in the room they will sit. Preferably not too far from the doors.

• CURRENT PLAN: Youth will not sit in classroom groups. The class ends when the kids enter the meetingroom and teachers are no longer responsible for the children at that point.

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* FDS and M&C encourage feedback about the new WT!

There is a table during the Fellowship time each week. People are encouraged to take their ideas & concerns there. Email and phone calls are also encouraged.

Issues by individual Classrooms

Nursery Children are not included in Worshiping Together

Parents will pick up their children in the Nursery after the rise of meeting.

Preschool

Preschoolers are included in WT

Kindergarten – First Grade

Second, Third & Fourth Grades

“Middle School,” Grades 5-8

High School

Will come sometimes, at least.

• WT-1: Current updates to Worshiping Together process
• WT-2: Introduction to the “Worshiping Together” process
• WT-3: Issues related to how we imagine the flow of children and worship on any given Sunday, once the process is well established.
  THIS IS THE MAIN PAGE FOR YOUR BEST THOUGHTS
• WT-3-OLD: “WT-3″ will always reflect the current thinking. To keep WT-3 as uncomplicated as possible we will remove ideas that have been discussed and set aside. Friends who want to see what WT-3 looked like BEFORE the current version can go to WT-3-OLD.
  
• WT-4: Preparations we as a community may need to make to achieve the goal of a rewarding inter-generational worship experience.
• WT-5: Open issues, concerns, exceptions, things to be mindful of. As we approach general agreement about “how are we going to do this,” I imagine this will be a place to record and keep track of “paths not (currently) taken.” If we agree on a course of action over the objections of some, let those objections be recorded here, with proposed alternatives, if possible. Then if things develop the way the objectors feared they would, we have a record in community memory, and perhaps some suggestions about alternative ways to proceed. This will be a place to stockpile dissenting opinions, and outstanding issues that we will do well to remember as we encounter the realities of the process as it unfolds. I will also use this area to archive all comments made, after they have been incorporated into the body of the work.
  
• WT-6: Jokes about what is happening, or might happen.

Sunday 9/26, update 6

Our first Worshiping Together Sunday was a fine experience for many!

ALL the classes entered without breaking the mood of worship.

Many adults were excited to see so many children.

Teachers were happy to have the chance to join the Meeting in worship.

Question of the day: How will we handle the influx of children’s name tags?

WT-3 and WT-4 have been lightly updated, in light of Sunday’s experience.

Thursday 9/16, update 5

The first “Worshiping Together” Sunday is Sept. 26, the second is Oct. 10

In the first weeks, as we are sorting this out, teachers have discretion about bringing their students down to the meetingroom doors at 11:45.

WT-3 page, “the main page” re-purposed:

The old title was: WT-3: We imagine the flow of children and worship on a Worshiping Together Sunday
The focus was on imagining what we wanted, at some level that combined ideal and practical.
The new title is: WT-3: We imagine what the flow of children and worship on the next few Sundays

So WT-3 is now for TCFM members who want to know what to expect in the near term.
The main preparation work has moved to WT-4, which is focused on the PROCESS of bringing the community into a worshiping wholeness over the next several weeks.

Friday 9/10, update 4

We are now opening a window of intense discussion and change.

A significant sharpening and slimming down of the thinking occurred on WT-3 on 9/8, no major new ideas, but something approaching a draft plan.

Teachers will react to the draft plan on Saturday, 9/11, and these pages will likely change in response to their thinking.

Sunday 9/12 is a discussion in Adult Ed which will likely produce further chances, which should show up early next week.

The new plan will not be implemented 9/19, the first day of FDS, because that is the orientation day, with everybody gathering in the Fellowship room at 11AM.

However, if we find ourselves in general agreement, the new plan might start the next Sunday, 9/26.

Monday 8/30, update 3

Worshiping Together Update #3:
*TCFM Website re-designed, “comments” function working, WT Pages now accepting comments.

WT-3, Big Update:
M&C presents their plan for 11:45-12:15:

HERE IS THE PLAN: M & C has responsibility for what happens with the children after they arrive at the meeting room door.

M&C will try this the first week we decide we are ready, and then revise it, as necessary.
Tom Stoffregen is the M&C contact person on this.

PROPOSED:

Saturday, 8/29, update 2

Big update.

WT-2 lightly re-written to adapt to broken “comments” function on this website.

WT-3, major update: “CURRENT PLAN” is beginning to appear for some topics. “PROPOSAL”s are also showing up. M&C is taking responsibility for what happens once children & youth are in the meetingroom. There are sections for thoughts about each classroom/age-group. Perhaps there will be Sundays when individual classes choose not to come to adult worship.
Previous contents of WT-3 moved to WT-3-Old.

WT-4, major update: Preparation time line. Slow, class-based, implementation? Scheduled evaluation?

Friday, 7/29, update 1

Report on discussion at M&C, 7/28.

This is from my (Richard Fuller) point of view. Others who were there, feel free to email your perspective to me and I will incorporate your thinking into this report.

1. M&C proposed that each Sunday, it would be the person closing meeting who would open the doors at 11:45 and welcome the children in.
2. There was general agreement that the teachers are doing LOTS of great work, and that we want them to feel supported as we move into the final planning for this Worshiping Together process.
3. Most M&C members feel that adult worshipers are ready (mostly) for the change to Worshiping Together at 11:45, and M&C suggests the WT subcommittee and the FDS committee focus on the needs of teachers, parents and children.
4. M&C is firm that 11:45 WT should start this fall, but realizes that, since the first Sunday after Labor Day is September 12, it may not be possible to have everything ready to go by September 19, when FDS classes begin.
5. It was suggested that during the weeks of preparation for WT, adults from 11:00 worship might come to each of the FDS classes and “invite” them, and explain why (that particular adult) was excited to have the class coming into worship near the end, instead of at the beginning.
6. Members of the WT subcommittee plan to have informal discussions with teachers and parents in early August, in an effort to draft a plan of specifics on how this will work. We will have a progress report to M&C in time for their next meeting, 8/25. We hope to have a ready-to-edit-or-implement draft plan, covering everything we can think of, by the second Sunday in September, the 12th.

A subcommittee has been formed

Richard Fuller has asked Heather Ferguson and Caroline Fahrney Kirchner to help him stay on top of this process as it develops, and they have agreed.

• WT-1: Current updates to Worshiping Together process
• WT-2: Introduction to the “Worshiping Together” process
• WT-3: What we expect the next few Sundays to look like, before further tweaking.
  
• WT-3-OLD: “WT-3″ will always reflect the current thinking. To keep WT-3 as uncomplicated as possible we will remove ideas that have been discussed and set aside. Friends who want to see what WT-3 looked like BEFORE the current version can go to WT-3-OLD.
  
• WT-4: Preparations we as a community may need to make to achieve the goal of a rewarding inter-generational worship experience. THIS IS now THE MAIN PAGE FOR YOUR BEST THOUGHTS
• WT-5: Open issues, concerns, exceptions, things to be mindful of. As we approach general agreement about “how are we going to do this,” I imagine this will be a place to record and keep track of “paths not (currently) taken.” If we agree on a course of action over the objections of some, let those objections be recorded here, with proposed alternatives, if possible. Then if things develop the way the objectors feared they would, we have a record in community memory, and perhaps some suggestions about alternative ways to proceed. This will be a place to stockpile dissenting opinions, and outstanding issues that we will do well to remember as we encounter the realities of the process as it unfolds. I will also use this area to archive all comments made, after they have been incorporated into the body of the work.
  
• WT-6: Jokes about what is happening, or might happen.

Richard Fuller here. I am a member of the First Day School Committee, the committee responsible for the oversight of our First-Day education of our children.
(We recruit teachers, help them with lesson plans, if needed, decide each year what age-groupings of kids in classes make sense for that year, keep on top of child-safety issues and a bunch of other stuff.)

We work with Ministry and Counsel to coordinate when and how the children and adults worship together on First Day (Sunday) morning.

Since the 1980s, children have been part of adult worship starting at 11 AM, and they left the meeting room about 11:15.
Last spring First Day School and Ministry & Counsel committees agreed it might be better for the children’s experience of worship if they came in at 11:45, so that they could experience meeting for worship after the adults had settled in to a deeper state of waiting.

Of course, a couple of Quaker committees cannot “decide” what all the Quakers in a meeting will do. We ARE the relevant committees to initiate that decision, but we need to consult with everyone affected by the change, or at least allow everyone who will be affected the opportunity to raise concerns and make suggestions. We need to listen and we need to take what we hear into account.

And many suggestions WILL be needed. This will be a big change, requiring many arrangements. FDS & M&C committees are excited about how this will bring adults and youth of the community together, but we need YOUR input to make it a successful experience, one that gives our children & youth a better understanding of waiting silently in worship for the movement of the Divine.

There has been MUCH discussion already, of how this will work, but it has been scattered among committees and small informal groups. What I hope to do here on the TCFM website is to

• Provide a place where EVERYBODY can see how the discussion is developing
• Encourage people to comment here (at the bottom of most WT pages) or to email or speak to us on as many of the issues as they have opinions about
• Offer a place that outlines the discussion and invites input for folks who don’t have other avenues of input, like committees they are serving on.

I see the WT pages on this website as a supplement to meetings and informal conversations, but also as a place of record, where we summarize our current thinking, a place where people who may have missed an important meeting can catch up.
I encourage you to follow the discussion here, and to comment, but also to come to the “Worshiping Together” table during the Fellowship time, or to talk to members of Ministry & Counsel and/ or the FDS Committee, or to email me at richard.osbo.fuller(at)gmail.com.

On the WT-3 and WT-4 pages we are listing all the issues and questions we can think of, plus proposing ideas and naming CURRENT PLANS, where we have them.

In the language of Process Work, we need to map the “field;” we need to recognize as many of the elements of the situation as possible, before we can make changes that will benefit the community as a whole, rather than just some parts of it.

My plans for how this web-assisted discussion will work

I am posting a series of WT (Worshiping Together) articles devoted to

• WT-2: This introductory post, or page
• WT-3: Current Plans, Proposals & Issues related to how we imagine the flow of children and worship on any given Sunday, once the process is well established.
• WT-4: Preparations we as a community may need to make to achieve the goal of a rewarding inter-generational worship experience.
• WT-5: Open issues, concerns, exceptions, things to be mindful of. As we approach general agreement about “how are we going to do this,” I imagine this will be a place to record and keep track of “paths not (currently) taken.” If we agree on a course of action over the objections of some, let those objections be recorded here, with proposed alternatives, if possible. Then if things develop the way the objectors feared they would, we have a record in community memory, and perhaps some suggestions about alternative ways to proceed. This will be a place to stockpile dissenting opinions, and outstanding issues that we will do well to remember as we encounter the realities of the process as it unfolds. I will also use this area to archive all comments made on all the issues.
• WT-6: Jokes about what is happening, or might happen.
• WT-1: Current Status Updates – When you come back to these pages after having been away, you can check here, rather than having to review all the pages.

I need to emphasize this is an experiment, like all of life. Many of us have ideas of how this will work, but it will take trying things to know what really works. And if something isn’t working for some folks, they need to comment here or bring those issues to the “Worshiping Together” table in the Fellowship room or to talk to someone on the FDS or M&C Committees.

My imagined role as “discussion-shepherd”

I will update these WT posts as the discussion continues and as an eventual consensus develops. I will regularly add inputs from meetings, and reports of informal conversations.

YOU –all of us– are ENCOURAGED to share your thinking.

The main contact people are:
Richard Fuller (FDS Committee)
Caroline Fahrney Kirchner (Parent, FDS teacher)
Heather Ferguson (Parent, M&C member)
Marybeth Neal (clerk, FDS Committee)
Tom Stoffregen (Parent, designated M&C contact)

Talk to us face to face after worship. Call us or email us.

Comment here. At the bottom of most of the WT posts is a comment area. Please contribute ideas relevant to that WT topic. I will assimilate the substance of the comments into the WT framework where it can be seen in context, and then I’ll move the original comment to the WT-5 area.

Please post comments not only on your own ideas but ideas you hear from others. This web discussion area is supposed to reflect and represent the larger face-to-face conversation.

Please email your ideas to Richard.osbo.fuller (at) gmail.com. I will assimilate the substance of your thoughts into the WT-3 and WT-4 where it can be seen in context, and then I’ll place your message –your words– in the WT-5 area, unless you prefer otherwise.

There is a corollary to my request for ideas: If you are speaking to a Friend about “Worshiping Together” and you are saying something that you DON’T want quoted on this website, please state that clearly. If you talk to me, I will automatically be doing my best to summarize what you say here. I am encouraging all of us to report what they are hearing. We assume this is a community-wide conversation where everybody has the opportunity to know what is being said. If you are saying something that is not for the ears of the whole community, you have a responsibility to be clear about that.

• WT-1: Current updates to Worshiping Together process
• WT-2: Introduction to the “Worshiping Together” process
• WT-3: Issues related to how we imagine the flow of children and worship on any given Sunday, once the process is well established.
  THIS IS THE MAIN PAGE FOR YOUR BEST THOUGHTS
• WT-3-OLD: “WT-3″ will always reflect the current thinking. To keep WT-3 as uncomplicated as possible we will remove ideas that have been discussed and set aside. Friends who want to see what WT-3 looked like BEFORE the current version can go to WT-3-OLD.
  
• WT-4: Preparations we as a community may need to make to achieve the goal of a rewarding inter-generational worship experience.
• WT-5: Open issues, concerns, exceptions, things to be mindful of. As we approach general agreement about “how are we going to do this,” I imagine this will be a place to record and keep track of “paths not (currently) taken.” If we agree on a course of action over the objections of some, let those objections be recorded here, with proposed alternatives, if possible. Then if things develop the way the objectors feared they would, we have a record in community memory, and perhaps some suggestions about alternative ways to proceed. This will be a place to stockpile dissenting opinions, and outstanding issues that we will do well to remember as we encounter the realities of the process as it unfolds. I will also use this area to archive all comments made, after they have been incorporated into the body of the work.
  
• WT-6: Jokes about what is happening, or might happen.