Topic for November 2024
No Strings Attached
- Who Pulled my strings?
- How did I cut the Strings
- Who is in control now?
Come and explore this with us.
We Meet Each Month on The Second Saturday.
Online and In Person
We are now meeting in hybrid form – with video from a laptop, and in person.
We meet in the American Legion Hall – the main hall
21920 State Route 9 S.E., Woodinville, WA 98072
We’ll meet from 9 am to 12 noon – Pacific Time.
Highlights from our monthly gathering.
November 2023 Growing Down
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Before Winter By Eugene Marckx Just to go there and breathe that airand see that river silver through the valleyuntil I’m within reach of that peace againwith those people along those roads Just to help cut hay into long windrowsand … Read More
October 2023 To Own or Disown
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Elie Wiesel The Perils of Indifference delivered 12 April 1999, White House, Washington, D.C. Mr. President, Mrs. Clinton, members of Congress, Ambassador Holbrooke, Excellencies, friends: Fifty-four years ago to the day, a young Jewish boy from a small town in the … Read More
September 2023 Wisdom in My Wounds
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The Useless Parts You know you want to … but can you?You say you will … but you don’tor you try and try … then walk awayand tell yourself tomorrow – tomorrow’s the day But your clock is moving backwardOn … Read More
August 2023 Running on Empty
By Roy Compton
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Song of the Shattering Vessels by Peter Cole Either the world is coming togetheror else the world is falling apart— here—now—along these letters, against the walls of every heart. Today, tomorrow, within its weather,the end or beginning’s about to start— the world impossibly coming … Read More
July 2023 Hearing You Out
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Food of Love by Carolyn Kizer Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.SAMUEL BUTLER II I’m going to murder you with love;I’m going to suffocate you with embraces;I’m going to hug you, bone by bone,Till you’re dead all over.Then … Read More
June 2023 My Mentors/My Fathers
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Deep Sea Salmon Dad where have you gone?Did you leap quicksilver into the last runof legendary kings – those eighty-pound June Hogs –that bashed themselves against the wallsof the Grand Coulee Dam?Or are you too smart for the trap of … Read More