Blog archive
June 2023
Creative Aging
06/01/2023
May 2023
One Villager's Story
05/31/2023
Pasadena Area Literary 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
Rumor of Humor #15
05/28/2023
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
June Weddings, Summer, Father’s Day, and more
By John TuitePosted: 05/27/2021
Gentle Men of the Village, I welcome you to the month of June, 2021! Juno, the Roman
mythological goddess, and Queen of the gods! June brings summer, heat, morning gloom,
greater freedom from Covid constraints for Californians, the celebration of fathers and the
significance of Fatherhood, wedding events postponed since last year, family gatherings with members from afar not seen in a year or more!
Workers are giving up gym clothes and returning to their cubicles, some happy, some not
so…children going back to school, real school!, some happy, some not so…
Usually I struggle to find juicy subjects that will interest you. Not the problem this time…there
were too many good topics to choose from…but could I catch their juice? I still don’t know.
In one week from today Lynne and I celebrate the 53rd year from the day we took our vows!
Marriage is on my mind. We have all had the experience. For some there are only departed spouses…you could tell the rest of us what the experience was/is like. We all could reflect on what the deep meanings are of living and loving and committing our lifetime to another…I invite you to share and give us insight to your experience.
I, for one, still have a memory of that first thrill that comes with falling in love…the impact of
ordinary things shared…the excitement of simple surprises…little gifts…sunrises and sunsets…and the remarkable, but mature (i.e. old) experience that I still get from some of those same things! I never thought of having a legacy, something I will leave behind when I go, but now I have a family, daughters and sons-in-law, grandchildren, whom I love and who love me, whom I belong to, and who belong to me, who record that I was here, and who will tell stories to the yet unborn about me and the love we had, share pictures of Lynne and me at celebrations that were highlights of our life together. And those yet unborn will hope that they can carry on the tradition of Sunday night dinners with loved ones and share trivia and love and celebrate having a history. It all eases the thought of dying!
So, lets share thoughts this morning of life as husbands, fathers, grandfathers, and men of
legacy!