Tonight, Q&I made ourselves an office in the bowels of the CSUC library and purged our skulls of the possibilities now before us.
We committed the pale walls of academia to a spectacle of dream making as we volleyed our imaginations about the room. We gnarled chalk against every imaginable surface, un-drafted, re-drew, and brought battle to linear linguistics- the photos are forthcoming.
Quinn described Wheeled Migration today to Lisa as though "we have drilled deep into the earth, and now we hear a deep rumble down there, we're not sure what it's going to do- but we're listening."
Upon a laugh track of guffaws we threw ourselves to the pit.
...It's a job. We intend do it well.
On the other side of our two hours, several 3x5 index cards rested beside our feet, stained with goals and visions, a schematic for the future of Wheeled Migration lay splayed across the brown chalkboard above our heads. We sat shoeless upon the carpet.
Among our working objectives, we scribbled out the phrases:
• To provide a safe space for those eager to push the life experience. Safe for their bodies, safe socially, safe emotionally.
• To create memories of a lifetime.
• To create an event that entertains, educates, enlivens, and inspires.
• To push the boundaries of experience for an enriched life.
With our goals, we're boiling down:
• To become a fully operational non-profit by 2010
• To define handfuls of mockups/hypothetical tours, experiences, and events. Right away!
• To write a cohesive vision that inspires and effortlessly unfurls all the rest of Wheeled Migration.
• Begin to outline the operations manual.
• To be the road manager of Wheeled Migration 2011.
AND!!
• To begin networking/fundraising.
Something I'm particularly excited to share from this night is that Q&I have agreed to full disclosure with this project and complete transparency with whatever is created here forward.
Sure we'll tell you what we're drinking, forgetting, edifying, and spending- but we'll show you even more. Curious about what happens when times get hard, or when someone drops a gift in our laps? Just watch.
Wanna see our business plans?
How about we just tell you all about it as we write it down.
In honor of you, us, for all things good and culturally creative, and as our living affront to capitalist hierarchy, we intend to offer the complete story; or to at least share every moment we can cull into 1's and 0's and throw back at you.
We've been getting along too well for it to be as great as reality television, but the story is worth mentioning, so we're watching you watching us, and we're all waiting to and see what comes next.
It's our feeling that by fearlessly opening our process, developments, and learning with you (which is also rife with our biggest secrets and deepest fears), others may feel inspired to seek their own journeys to the unknowns that confront us all.
Honesty and surrender are key elements in the alchemy of Wheeled Migration. This doesn't stop with the ride or within our thoughts; it is everything we are working to bring to this world. As co-creators and facilitators we fell it's essential to walk this walk until we're together on the bike- then it's just a bike ride.
It's nothing but a bike ride.
