Blog archive
June 2023
Bridget Brewster Discovers Village Benefits
06/04/2023
Rumor of Humor #16
06/04/2023
Communications Project with Cal State LA
06/02/2023
Creative Aging
06/01/2023
May 2023
One Villager's Story
05/31/2023
Pasadena Area Liberal Arts Center
05/31/2023
Pasadena Village Responds to Rainbow Flag Burning at Pasadena Buddhist Temple
05/31/2023
Plan Ahead - And Be Prepared
05/31/2023
Tuesday, May 23 Pasadena Celebrated Older Americans
05/31/2023
Reparations, Social Justice Activity
05/24/2023
Rumor of Humor #14
05/19/2023
Rumor of Humor #13
05/12/2023
Issue #12
05/09/2023
Science Monday - Review of Meeting on April 10, 2023
05/09/2023
Conversations Re African American Artists Before 1920
05/08/2023
Beyond the Village – Suzi and Phil Hoge
05/01/2023
Congratulations Wayne April! Honored at UNH
05/01/2023
Table Topics
05/01/2023
Volunteer Appreciation at the Village
05/01/2023
“ACCIDENTAL HOST—The Story of Rat Lungworm Disease”
05/01/2023
April 2023
Jumbo Joy
04/24/2023
Pasadenans Recent Experience With Racism
04/23/2023
Recent Events Reflecting Racism
04/23/2023
Fig and Goat Cheese Bruschetta
04/18/2023
Photography for Social Justice
04/11/2023
Issue #8
04/07/2023
BEYOND THE VILLAGE - Catherine Deely
04/06/2023
Creative Writing in Older Adults
04/06/2023
Gifts of Love
04/06/2023
March 2023
Issue #7
03/31/2023
Issue #6
03/26/2023
Great Decisions update
03/14/2023
Dominion Lawsuit, South Africa and 710 Stub
03/08/2023
February 2023
2023 DEI Progress
02/27/2023
BEYOND THE VILLAGE - Doug Colliflower
02/26/2023
CONVERSATIONS WITH ART
02/26/2023
GREAT DECISIONS
02/26/2023
OLDER ADULTS RESOURCE FAIR
02/26/2023
The Important, Influential Books in our Lives - Revisited
02/26/2023
History, Resolution of the 710 Freeway
02/19/2023
Eminent Domain, 710 Highway
02/13/2023
Bernard Garrett, 710 Freeway
02/06/2023
Men's Times Gatherings
02/03/2023
January 2023
Pasadena's Senior Commission
01/30/2023
BEYOND THE VILLAGE - JIM HENDRICK
01/27/2023
GRATITUDE - IT'S GOOD FOR YOU!
01/27/2023
JEFF GUTSTADT - FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST
01/27/2023
Bernard Garrett, Incredible Black Entrepreneur
01/17/2023
What is the "Spirit Talk" Group About?
01/16/2023
Same Ol’ New Year, Brand New Me
01/12/2023
Review of 2022, Consideration of 2023
01/06/2023
BEYOND THE VILLAGE - PATTI LA MARR
01/03/2023
FROM THE CHAIR
01/03/2023
WALK WITH EASE
01/03/2023
Love and Saint Valentinius
By John TuitePosted: 01/28/2022
Men's Time Topic Discussion for Tuesday, February 1
Good Morning, Men of the Pasadena Village!
It’s February, a very special time when we’re reminded by the example of Saint Valentinius that love is one, if not THE most important aspect of mankind’s existence. Without love babies whither, and shrink, and die! Children grow up crooked, and twisted, and lame in their inner ways! Adults become cunning, angry, hateful! Only love makes the difference. In February we’re reminded to take stock of how we love, how well we love, who we owe love to, how we respond to love when given!
It’s February, it’s President’s Day, it’s a month when we ponder, celebrate, and muse on the most important job in the land, the Presidency of the United States! We choose two Presidents to represent them all, the good, the lame, the inspiring, the thoughtful. It’s not the highest paying job in the land, not all were ready to face the problems they faced, some were brilliant by chance, others failed to meet our expectations. But there were 46 of them, and I would expect that each of them thought at some time in their four or eight years, “How did I think I could do this job!"
It is February 1st of the New Year, 2022! We have just celebrated the 20th Anniversary of the Village Movement, the birth of the Beacon Hill Village in Boston, and hundreds of new Villages around the country have sprung up, and more each month. What a blessing for so many people, and how each Village is shaped to respond to the particular needs of that community.
Think about your Village experience and tell us what you appreciate most and how you and your partner participate in activities. I love the response to someone’s expression that "I wish we could start such and such an activity.” “You are not alone, so say you’re going to start it, and see who shows up!” We form all sorts of communities of interest, and thus we respond to peoples’ isolation, loneliness, and mental health!
Talk about how you found the Village, how you entered in, whom you met, what ideas you have that you’ve not expressed, what our Village needs that it has not thought of yet! Tell us things you’ve not told anyone else!
John Tuite