Here’s hoping your week is going well. It’s rather hard to know what to wear these days, long underwear or shorts!!
Last week was unique and exciting. We had three wonderful young High School ladies who came sharing about the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, sharing about their competitive efforts to raise at least $20,000 for research and to hopefully become Students of The Year of this this organization, through their efforts. Their ability to speak and share publicly was amazing, they did a great job. Two of the girls parents came to support their daughters and were quite moved by our Rotary Club. Jeff Cadge, the father of one of the girls, came up to me after the meeting asking if he could join our club. He called me today saying his check is ready and application is filled out and is hoping to be excepted into our club. I will bring it up at tomorrow’s meeting and we will check to see if anyone has any objections for Jeff to join us. If all are in agreement, Jeff will join us at our Feb. 1st meeting.
This Friday we are still working on finding a guest speaker. The person who planned to speak had something come up last moment so we had to change our plan. If I hear more soon, I will let you know. If you know of someone, or if you want to share about something yourself, let me know.
Hope to see all of you tomorrow.
Last week was unique and exciting. We had three wonderful young High School ladies who came sharing about the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, sharing about their competitive efforts to raise at least $20,000 for research and to hopefully become Students of The Year of this this organization, through their efforts. Their ability to speak and share publicly was amazing, they did a great job. Two of the girls parents came to support their daughters and were quite moved by our Rotary Club. Jeff Cadge, the father of one of the girls, came up to me after the meeting asking if he could join our club. He called me today saying his check is ready and application is filled out and is hoping to be excepted into our club. I will bring it up at tomorrow’s meeting and we will check to see if anyone has any objections for Jeff to join us. If all are in agreement, Jeff will join us at our Feb. 1st meeting.
This Friday we are still working on finding a guest speaker. The person who planned to speak had something come up last moment so we had to change our plan. If I hear more soon, I will let you know. If you know of someone, or if you want to share about something yourself, let me know.
Hope to see all of you tomorrow.
Mark J.
Here is beautiful poem, by Mary Oliver who just passed away a few days ago. She was an American Poet who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 as well as the National Book Award.
Wild Geese
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
Here is beautiful poem, by Mary Oliver who just passed away a few days ago. She was an American Poet who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 as well as the National Book Award.
Wild Geese
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
