Monday Morning Memo – 12.11.2023
Wider Horizons Events and Information
1. Tomorrow, Tuesday, December 12, at 10:30 am, our Book Group, led by Nancy Robb, will meet to discuss, I believe, Lessons in Chemistry. All are welcome: https://tinyurl.com/2p9kbwbe
2. On Tuesday, December 12, at 7 pm, Susan Adler will be joined by Sue Lerner as they the every-other-Tuesday evening Members and Friends gathering. See attached for the questions. Question #1 on love proved deeply meaningful at Sue and Debbie’s last Thursday morning session, so it’s included again as an option. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85226661859
3. Thursday morning’s All-Member Zoom is happening, as per usual, this Thursday, December 14, at 9:30 am. Sue Lerner will send out the link on Wednesday.
4. Last week, I said to save January 28, 2024 for our winter party. Scratch that date. It’s likely, now, to be at the Swedish Club on a Thursday (not February 15) in February. Stay tuned to hear more from our party planning group, led by Liz Ohlson.
5. And on December 21, we’ll have our Storytelling program. I need one or two more storytellers (and it would be nice to have a person of other-than-the-female gender). One theme you might consider exploring is darkness and light given that the 21st is the winter solstice. Ten minutes is a good length for a story. Slightly more or less is fine, too.
6. If you have an exercise bike you are willing to lend or sell, Nancy Hooyman would like to have it. Contact her at: hooy@uw.edu
7. Fiber Art Enthusiasts…click into our Friday, Dec 15, 10:30-noon virtual gathering as we share projects, scoop up tips and craft together around our Zoom table. Zoom link below.
All levels welcome; lively conversation guaranteed. Hope you’ll give us a try.
For information – Joan Bergman, jmbergman43@comcast.net
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82563605806?pwd=Rk1vQ3BQa0U3ZUVUQkNHZTNuRHVIUT09
Members and Friends Share Information
1. As someone who fancies herself a writer, I found this piece from The New York Times both interesting and moving: https://tinyurl.com/5n73duhm (you don’t need a subscription to open it). It shows what can be accomplished in what may seem like a hopeless situation: a writer had a traumatic brain injury that completely reshaped how she wrote…illustrating the indomitable spirit and brain plasticity of humans (and, I suspect, all animal forms—not to put down plants)!
2. And one more…this one from one of our great modern humorists, David Sedaris, in The New Yorker (attached).