Memorable

What is the point of memorial minutes?

To celebrate the life of a departed Friend?

To impress upon people new to Friends how one weighty Friend lived out his beliefs?

To impress on people new to Friends the names of specific organizations one Weighty Friend devoted his time, energy, and other resources to?

To help people connected to the same organizations find each other if they have not already done so.?

To capture piquant and memorable moments from memorial Meeting?

To create connections with younger Friends

RantWoman is vexing herself and those around her meditating about improvements she would like if the minute had not already been to Meeting For Business.

The memorial minute for our late member Alan Rabinowitz read at last Meeting for Business was adequate. Yes, RantWoman can see that, some of the time.

But the memorial minute:

--Forgot about the resolution of Congressional Recognition, something which definitely does not occur for just every memorial.

--Forgot about the sonnets. Lots of people at the memorial exchanged sonnets with Alan. Many of the sonnets were read at the memorial. Also something that does not happen at just every memorial and fun besides. RantWoman realized that in Business Meeting being heard about even one suggestion was going to be, um,.... but the sonnets did make it into the approved version.

--Referred vaguely to "many community organizations" when some were specifically mentioned at the memorial BEFORE RantWoman gave a message tying some of the organizations together with both cross generational and cross cultural attention. The Three organizations are

One America
   Serious immigrant rights, civic education, candidate forums,
usually with professional 'terps equipment...

The Western States Center
   serious community organizer trainings, all gender restrooms,
sessions that wind up all in Spanish because none of the gringos
present need interpreters...

The Social Venture fund.
  Some kind of venture capital thing which came to mind only because
besides being mentioned at Alan's memorial Twitter says it just picked
up and funded expansion of a project from a hackathon.

RantWoman um, er, used EMAIL to see whether even one person had heard of the specific organizations on RantWoman's mind. RantWoman was THRILLED to get back info that at least one person is already familiar with the organizations on RantWoman's mind.

RantWoman will save reports on other data collection in connection with her email inquiry for their own post and sends warm greetings, prayers, condolences to everyone who knew and especially was inspired by Alan.