Seattle Icarus

Submitted by squirrelABC on Sat, 08/15/2009 - 3:43am

Seattle Icarus is disbanding.....:( I don't want Seattle Icarus to go away. We need a solid core group and not so many commers and goers, I think. It's weird, I'm not sure how we could get our members to stay a collective and not start bringing each other down with so much personal crap that is bogs us down. It seems as though we had a good thing giong in the beginning. Not that personal stuff isn't important, but there's a time and place. It seems we need seperate meetings for that. The thing that really is awesome about Seattle Icarus is that it helped me connect with a peer group for the first time and that is really meaningful for me. I am so lucky to have friends! It has been an amazing several months and I feel blessed. I hope we can get it started up again. Maybe in a more consistent fashion...

but.. but.. why?

Submitted by chiaroscuro on Sat, 08/15/2009 - 11:36pm.

That is sad to hear... is there anything anyone can do to help? Either to keep it going or make it easier to resume?

You know I am not sure at

Submitted by squirrelABC on Wed, 08/19/2009 - 9:16pm.

You know I am not sure at this point. There has been a lot of crisis recently and there are some people unable to have contact with some members and some that stopped coming.

My personal issue with the group:

I am not anyone's therapist. I don't want to listen to hours of people's personal shit. I want the group to be fun and interactive. I want there to be activism. I want us to do activities and stuff. I get bogged down by everyone's problems. I think some members are feeling similarly. I would like for it to be a real collective and not a place where people come in and out and where the meetings last for such a long time. I think a capped number on the group is important and that maybe if there is more interest we could have several working groups that might be slightly different focus depending on the needs of the group(s).

Those are my thoughts so far.