- We have a preliminary march route, a secondary one, and ideas to expand it if needed.
- We had (note the ~had~) a great design we'd collaborated on for a t-shirt printing. Several even pre-paid for it. Unfortunately, that fell through... more, later.
- We potentially resolved porta-potty issues (or lack thereof), and will soon hear about that resolution.
- We came up with ideas to tie in several local Farmers' Markets traffic that morning to the event at 1 P.M
- We may have a pretty good sign and banner plan - cross your fingers!
- We settled on a preliminary date for Meeting #2
Last night, I was thinking of ways to grab the younger generations' attention, and thinking the then-current one and only t-shirt design lacked information to grab their attention...
So, I collaborated with my 20 year old son on another potential design, using the previously collaborated-on design we currently had. Came up with a pretty kick-ass design, we thought. Posted it for the other organizers/collaborators to see. And called it a night.
Came back to the group about noon to discover that was not a good idea, after all - the drama which ensued was unpleasant, and was not resolved happily, on either side Unfortunate, but it could not be helped, apparently, when egos are involved in a collaboration. So, we lost the original design, as well as the new one, and now have to start over on that part of the project. *sigh*
I learned a lot about how difficult it is to actually build an event of this proportion, and how easily feelings are hurt. Yeah, I may have made a mistake, when looked at from one angle, but from another angle, I was in the right, as well. Hey, we're only human. Lesson learned, moving on...
We're coming out of this particular brush-fire stronger, leaner, and more prepared to face any future difficulties. I hope you out there will all join us in this endeavor to educate each person out there who ~doesn't~ know what evils Monsanto is doing!
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