Category: timeftw

The Stolen Presents Have been thinking lately about how the destruction of the age-old structures and practices of sharing and gift economies is completely inextricably bound with all the ways we defer enjoyment of our lives to some future point. We slog through years of school to prepare for college, we go to college to…

When I had the pleasure of leading a day of timebanking training as part of  Transition Media’s (PA) TimeBanking in Transition training, Spring 2012, I was honored to attend the 2nd day of that training, led by Charles Eisenstein (Ascent of Humanity, Sacred Economics, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible). At Charles’…

I pretty much pulled into New Orleans and went straight to the 2nd anniversary party for the NOLA TimeBank. Exciting! I feel very connected with this timebank because they started up right during a visit two years ago, when I asked a few people if they’d like to invite folks to get together for a…

I stayed with Marie Nelson’s daughter in Gainesville on October 26th, got there late after a 10.5 hour drive, following a drive late into the night before. Naomi was really nice, we had a quick cup of coffee in the morning, then I drove 2.5 hours to Tampa Bay. I got there around 1:30, to…

The next evening, Monday October 19, we met up with folks in Baltimore — Michael Marks, former TBUSA Board cohort, wrote a PhD on timebanking, used to work with Youth Advocate Program and currently helps with the B-Note and more, Jeff Dicken and Julie Goeldener of the B-Note, Ian Shlakman of B-Note and timebank, Tam…

I flew back to Philadelphia from Turkey, and continued my tour. Reaching into the backermost recesses of my memory (I’m home now and the events I’m relaying started a few weeks ago, on October 17.) Oct. 16 I played at an open mic in Philadelphia. I was excited that they had veggie buffalo wings. Mmmm,…

In the night before the last day of Giftival I had a strange and disturbing dream. Kind of in two parts. At the beginning of the dream I was learning that I had just crashed a train head-on into another train. I was really freaked out and worried, but learned that noone had been hurt….

Day 3 was a big one. It was challenging! and in retrospect the challenging part was one of my most valuable times at Giftival… We began by getting into groups of four and answering the questions: What are you grateful for? What are you longing for? I was with Aysegul, Lisette and Merve. Aysegul shared…

Picking up where we left off… Day 2 of Giftival began with a nice feeling that I’d already gotten to know the other participants much more than one would expect in one day. I was eager to see what Day 2 would bring. Well the first thing it brought was some lovely new people. Deborah…

Hello It’s been awhile, because there’s been too much happening to get around to writing about it. Since I last posted I’ve been to Turkey for Giftival (beautiful), which I’ll write about here. Then went back to Pennsylvania, enjoyed some free time in Media, had some meetings about the future of timebanking software and support…