"I am so ready for purpose"

alternate title
"Purple Circus"
Every other Wednesday night is devoted to a meeting we call 'purpose circle'. Its a time when the community comes together to discuss issues and make decisions. Some like to call it purple circus. Sometimes it seems a bit more like a circus. I love meetings and pretty much any type of gathering of people. I find it essential for a community to gather at least once a week. With all the people coming and going here...and because of how different we all are, makes any gathering especially interesting. We have the people who feel pressured to be at PC, the ones (one) who love to be there, the ones who come prepared for an efficient meeting (maybe?), the ones who like to banter, ones who don't know whats going on...and of course the ones who just don't go at all ( so , then, don't know whats going on). Oh wait...also the one who likes to sleep.
We strive for an efficient consensus decision making process. I love consensus! The theory is that a group of any size can make decisions in this way, if they follow the process.
Getting that process down.....seems to be a challenge.
Tonight we talked about quiet hours. Should quiet hours start at 10 or 11 on weekends? R thinks we should just get a stun gun to use when people are not using 'common sense' about quietness around sleeping areas. In the past M has mentioned that maybe we don't need rules at all for the community. And I wonder, isn't it all about common sense? common courtesy? respectfulness? compassion? taking responsibility to say something when a person offends you with their loudness or anything else?
then i remember the cake and bliss incident 2009......
apparently some of us need some boundaries and rules

but, as usual, that is just my version of the story