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February 2025
Status - Feb 20, 2025
02/20/2025
Bluebird by Charles Bukowski
02/17/2025
Dreams by Langston Hughes
02/17/2025
Haiku - Four by Fritzie
02/17/2025
Haikus - Nine by Virginia
02/17/2025
Wind and Fire
02/17/2025
Partnerships Amplify Relief Efforts
02/07/2025
Another Community Giving Back
02/05/2025
Diary of Disaster Response
02/05/2025
Eaton Fire: A Community United in Loss and Recovery
02/05/2025
Healing Powers of Creative Energy
02/05/2025
Living the Mission
02/05/2025
Message from the President: Honoring Black History Month
02/05/2025
Surviving and Thriving: Elder Health Considerations After the Fires
02/05/2025
Treasure Hunting in The Ashes
02/05/2025
Villager's Stories
02/05/2025
A Beginning of Healing
02/03/2025
Hectic Evacuation From Eaton Canyon Fire
02/02/2025
Hurricanes and Fires are Different Monsters
02/02/2025
January 2025
At Dawn by Ed Mervine
01/31/2025
Thank you for Relief Efforts
01/31/2025
Needs as of January 25, 2025
01/24/2025
Eaton Fire Information
01/23/2025
Fires in LA Occupy Our Attention
01/22/2025
Escape to San Diego
01/19/2025
Finding Courage Amid Tragedy
01/19/2025
Responses of Pasadena Village February 22, 2025
01/18/2025
A Tale of Three Fires
01/14/2025
How can we expand support to village members?
By John TuitePosted: 09/26/2021
Men's Time Topic Discussion for Tuesday, October 5th
Welcome Men of the Village to October, deep into Fall, leaves coloring and falling, cool weather, long awaited, now upon us. (Remember when we burned the leaves and the air was smokey and beautifully scented! No more…)
The year is aging…we are aging…our honorary Chief, Tom Stowitts, was 97! In September! Still showing up for Men’s Time…still making a contribution! Let’s hear a great ovation for Tom!
Kit Davis, our Anchorman, is still creating art and counting his contribution to written literature. Let’s hear it for Kit! Who else is over 90?
Let’s get this birthday thing straight, what do you say, so we can remember each others’ day and year. How shall we collect them? Are they on the directory?
The subject of the month has to do with my being invited to serve on a Strategic Plan Committee which has been formed by the Board of Directors and headed up by Pat Dawe and our Director, Katie Brandon.
Men’s Time is a committee of the Village which represents about 10% of the Village membership. If we count the other 15-20 men members, the men represent about 20-25% of the membership.
I believe it’s in order while the Strategic Plan is progressing for us to take an inventory of our needs, services, and responsibilities. We may want to give serious consideration to how we might expand our support of ailing, lonely, or dependent fellow members. This is just a topic for further discussion. I would like to hear from everybody about how you feel about our role in the Village. Who would like to open the floor?