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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
The Road Not Taken
By John TuitePosted: 08/24/2021
Men's Time Topic Discussion for Tuesday, September 7th
Welcome, Gentlemen of the Village, welcome to September!
It’s Fall, a mysterious time, a time of looking back, a time of possibilities, a perfect
time to wonder, to project, to imagine, a time to envision “…the road not taken…”!
Where were you, what were the circumstances, who were the players, did you
ponder long and hard? Or did you make the decision of a second? Did you go back
and forth, or was it a decisive conclusion with no options!
Did you ever look back? What did you think the outcomes might have been? Who
suffered because you made the choice you made? Who did you leave behind? Did
others have an opinion of what you did? Were some angry? Jealous? Resentful?
Supportive? Judgmental?
Tell us what the choice you made…tell us how you posed the question…tell us
what played into the possibilities…what were the conclusions…how did it work
out? Play it out: how might it have worked out if you chose the “road not taken..”
THE CHOICE
By John Tuite
Who would have thought that the Sixties were so distant from the Fifties! The
‘50’s were conservative, quiet, respectful, obedient…the ‘60’s were wild, noisy,
challenging, experimental! For the Catholic Church, the ‘50’s were led by the
traditional Pius XII, pope since 1939. The ‘60’s known by John XXIII of the “open
the windows…let the light and air in”! He instigated the 2 nd Vatican Council to
look at the changes of the world since the 1 st …in 1864…there was so much light
and air that he died in 1965! But before that, he introduced the “modern”
theologians to the Vatican bureaucracy and it was shocking! He asked the
Orthodox and Protestant Churches to sit in as observers and it was shocking! A
four year meeting…a new look at the mission of the church, at the relationship of
the church to the modern world. And then he died…and the bureaucracy began the
retrenchment…until today, Pope Francis is trying to protect the last of the changes
begun by Vatican 2!
I could have stayed! I could have pulled that small group of radicals to keep the
“windows open…and let in the light and air”. But then I met that beautiful, young
woman who was trying to find her way in the post Vatican 2 Church as was I! And
I chose to leave it! Leave it after the generations of my family clinging faithfully!
Leave it in spite of the excommunication that would follow. Leave it in spite of
those who stayed! Leave it without knowing who would be supportive, and who
would be condemning! Leave it without knowing how I would support a family of
five! Leave it without knowing whether this was a momentary infatuation! Leave
it without knowing…
Because that’s the nature of Choice! And this is 53 years later!