Month of December
Saturday Coffees
9 am
LeBou at San Felipe/Yerba Buena
Contact: Kathy
December 6
Napa B&B Tour & Taste
2-7 pm
Contact: Sue Butler
December 16
Christmas Party
6:30 pm
Merrilee's Home
Contact: Merrilee
December 20
Coffee Field Trip
9 am
Bijan Bakery & Cafe
Contact: Kathy
DECEMBER BIRTHDAYS
2nd Phil Martinez
3rd Sean Nevoli
8th
Bud Butler
11th Eddie Butler
21st Jennifer Butler
28th Sharon Simmons
Christmas Party
When: Tuesday, December 16, 6:30 pm
Where: Merrilee's Home
What: Our Annual Potluck & Gift Exchange
Our annual
Christmas party will be at Merrilee's on TUESDAY, December 16. Please let Merilee know if you
are coming and what you would like to
bring. (We have plenty of appetizers.)
The gift exchange has no
particular theme, $20.00 is the amount.
(watch out if you do gift cards, Robin said many places are going to be
closing after the first of the year, and those gift cards worthless.)
Thank You, Sue! Thank you to Sue Ballard for
all her hard work in arranging for us to have a Christmas tree at
"Christmas in the Park" She printed out pictures & supplied all the
needed craft supplies for us to make over 60 ornaments for our tree.
Then a crew of decorators showed up Friday to make our tree a Christmas
memory. Thank you to all you helped Sue with this project!!
Napa B&B Tour & Taste Event When: Saturday, December 6, 2008
Time: 2 PM to 7 PM
Cost: $55 per person for ticket (went up $10.00 this year)
Mexican
Riviera Cruise in 2009 All
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2009......CLICK for flyer! Saturday Coffee
Clatches
Continue
We've moved our "regular" place to
Le Boulanger at San Felipe and Yerba Buena. There is a Starbucks
across from it if you need something "special" to go with your bagel or
pastry. Our field trip this month will be
December 20 at Bijan Bakery & Cafe, 170 S. Market Street by the
Fairmont Hotel. Afterwards we can
check out our tree at Christmas in the park and see what holiday
displays are at the Fairmont.
e-Mail
Tidbit Old Age, I decided, is
a gift. I am now, probably for the first
time in my life, the person I have always wanted to be. Oh, not
my body! I sometime despair over my body, the wrinkles, the
baggy eyes, and the sagging butt. And often I am taken aback by
that old person that lives in my mirror (who looks like my mother!),
but I don't agonize over those things for long. I would never trade my amazing
friends, my wonderful life, my loving family for less gray hair or a
flatter belly. As I've aged, I've become more kind to myself, and
less critical of myself. I've become my own friend. I don't chide myself for
eating that extra cookie, or for not making my bed, or for buying
that silly cement gecko that I didn't need, but looks so avante garde
on my patio. I am entitled to a treat, to be messy, to be
extravagant. I have seen too many
dear friends leave this world too soon; before they understood the
great freedom that comes with aging. Whose business is it if I choose to
read or play on the computer until 4 AM and sleep until
noon? I will dance with myself to those
wonderful tunes of the 60's & 70's, and if I, at the same time,
wish to weep over a lost love ... I will. I will walk the beach
in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body, and will dive
into the waves with abandon if I choose to, despite the pitying glances
from the jet set. They, too, will get old. Sure, over the years my heart has
been broken. How can your heart not break when you lose a loved
one, or when a child suffers, or even when somebody's beloved pet gets
hit by a car? But broken hearts are what give us strength and
understanding and compassion. A heart never broken is
pristine and sterile and will never know the joy of being imperfect. I am so blessed to have lived long
enough to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be
forever etched into deep grooves on my face. So many have
never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn
silver. As you get older, it is easier to be
positive. You care less about what other people think. I
don't question myself anymore. I've even earned the right to be
wrong. So, to answer your question, I like
being old. It has set me free. I like the person I have
become. I am not going to live forever, but while I am still
here, I will not waste time lamenting what could have been, or worrying
about what will be. And I shall eat dessert every single day. (If
I feel like it) MAY OUR FRIENDSHIP NEVER COME APART
ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART! MAY YOU ALWAYS HAVE A RAINBOW OF
SMILES ON YOUR FACE AND IN YOUR HEART FOREVER AND EVER!
