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Two's Company!
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Village Magic
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June 2026
Ability Resource Fair - A.R.F.!
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Jabber-Walkies
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LGBTQ+ Bars: A Book-talk
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Ladies Who Lunch
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President’s Message
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April 2026
Altadena’s Coyote Comeback
04/29/2026
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Legacy Project
04/29/2026
Not Too Old To Get Carded
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President's Message
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Stuck in Milwaukee - Airplane Travel 2026
04/29/2026
The Art Journaling Workshop
04/29/2026
Think You're Losing Your Mind?
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Visiting The Getty
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March 2026
My Home For Now
03/30/2026
My Home for Now
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Do I Really Need a Will and/or a Trust?
03/26/2026
Everybody Needs a Blankie
03/26/2026
Kickoff: Prepared 50+ Emergency Preparedness
03/26/2026
The Birth of an Archive for Pasadena Village
03/26/2026
Too Smart to be Scammed?
03/26/2026
“I DIDN’T KNOW THAT!” A Refresher Course
03/26/2026
Across the Waiting Room
03/11/2026
February 2026
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AI Presentation
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02/26/2026
Mary Mejia is Here to Make a Difference
02/26/2026
One Year On
02/26/2026
President’s Message – March 2026
02/26/2026
January 2026
Hearts & Limbs in Zambia
01/28/2026
Lost Trees of Altadena Return Home
01/28/2026
President's Message: WHY the Village Works
01/28/2026
TV: Behind the Scenes
01/28/2026
Trauma to Triumph
01/28/2026
Welcome to 2021
By John Tuite · Posted 12/30/2020
Gentlemen of the Village! I welcome you to 2021 !!
We’ve described the past year in many catastrophic terms. We’ve moaned
over it, described our fears, our stress, our loneliness, our confinement and misery!
What we haven’t done is reviewed our courage, our ingenuity, our creativity,
and our flexibility and adaptability in handling the “Crisis of 2020”! Let’s try to do that today!
I want to hear about your newly invented communication systems with your family and friends, your ways of celebrating the birthdays and anniversaries, engagements and new births. How you kept the “home fires burning” in spite of complications and
dangers. What new experiences like “drive-by birthday parties” and “food orderings” and "save the local book store or restaurant" events you saw and participated in.
Let’s celebrate our ingenuity in continuing to face health care, self care, psychic
care, relationship care, brain care! We’ve come through a year that demanded
that we exercise judgment, reflection, and hope in facing circumstances that
we’ve never seen before in our lifetime! We’ve called up courage and strength
that was there when we needed it. We just assumed that we were up to the task…
and we were!
I want to hear your reflections and experiences, and your wonder at the strength
we and our families have exhibited and continue into this New Year! Let's dig
deep and tell us something we haven’t heard you say before!
John Tuite
We’ve described the past year in many catastrophic terms. We’ve moaned
over it, described our fears, our stress, our loneliness, our confinement and misery!
What we haven’t done is reviewed our courage, our ingenuity, our creativity,
and our flexibility and adaptability in handling the “Crisis of 2020”! Let’s try to do that today!
I want to hear about your newly invented communication systems with your family and friends, your ways of celebrating the birthdays and anniversaries, engagements and new births. How you kept the “home fires burning” in spite of complications and
dangers. What new experiences like “drive-by birthday parties” and “food orderings” and "save the local book store or restaurant" events you saw and participated in.
Let’s celebrate our ingenuity in continuing to face health care, self care, psychic
care, relationship care, brain care! We’ve come through a year that demanded
that we exercise judgment, reflection, and hope in facing circumstances that
we’ve never seen before in our lifetime! We’ve called up courage and strength
that was there when we needed it. We just assumed that we were up to the task…
and we were!
I want to hear your reflections and experiences, and your wonder at the strength
we and our families have exhibited and continue into this New Year! Let's dig
deep and tell us something we haven’t heard you say before!
John Tuite
