Tonight there is a strange coincidence - we all more-or-less bring the same food - cheese, tomatoes and bread or crackers! Fortunately our hosts ransack their fridge, and come up with a few tasty extras, and there is some salad and carrots as well. I guess we are all hanging on to the last shred of summer - of which there has been precious little in Seattle this year.
We start to share our news. UD took her great-neice to the town where the vampires supposedly live - Forks. H has been hiking and there is talk about bears seen around Mt Rainier.
M has been thinking about tradition - he wants to know examples of where the tradition is greater than the sum of the people involved. We come up with various ideas, and mull over whether or not tradition can hold us back as well as help us to remember important events from the past.
A dog next door barks and barks, and we talk about how disturbing this can be, and we have all experieinced this problem in one way or another.
It seems the evening is gone too fast, and we have barely begun, have not done any peace talking. We say the Peace Prayer and bid each other farewell until next time, with love and hugs.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Minutes for August 23rd 2010
There was no meeting in July - summer and holidays made choosing a time very difficult, so this next meeting was joyful as we could all get together and share what we had been doing for 2 months. Now I have had my own holiday - a new experience, sailing classes for a week - shame the weather did its usual Seattle thing, but we learnt to motor in the fog! ...and I am now trying to remember what we did talk about. What do these scratchy notes mean?
Well, D is getting ready to go to China with Shahabuddin. She has had to buy a new car, the old one fell apart after driving to summer camp in Colorado, and a camera for the trip, she is very excited with her purchases.
T has been on jury duty - we talk about that and its responsibilities and demands.
There has been talk about doing a short class that helps us to get ready for the practicalities of dying - maybe in January. H's mother in law passed, and she tells us how that was for her family.
We talk about some places that we could hold meetings for Shahabuddin, and take a short walk to look at one nearby.
In the middle of my notes is a sentence. Your opinion of me is none of my business.
We close as always with the Peace Prayer. No matter what we talk about, our hearts are here for each other and for all of you in other lands struggling to find peace in your daily lives. We pray for you.
Well, D is getting ready to go to China with Shahabuddin. She has had to buy a new car, the old one fell apart after driving to summer camp in Colorado, and a camera for the trip, she is very excited with her purchases.
T has been on jury duty - we talk about that and its responsibilities and demands.
There has been talk about doing a short class that helps us to get ready for the practicalities of dying - maybe in January. H's mother in law passed, and she tells us how that was for her family.
We talk about some places that we could hold meetings for Shahabuddin, and take a short walk to look at one nearby.
In the middle of my notes is a sentence. Your opinion of me is none of my business.
We close as always with the Peace Prayer. No matter what we talk about, our hearts are here for each other and for all of you in other lands struggling to find peace in your daily lives. We pray for you.