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November 2024

October 2024

ARBORIST WALK: NOT FOR TREE HUGGERS ONLY!
10/29/2024

Bill Wishner: Visual Hunter
10/29/2024

Can a Village Group Fix Our Healthcare System?
10/29/2024

Community Board Directors Strengthen Village Board
10/29/2024

Connecting with Village Connections: The A, B, C, & D’s of Medicare @ 65+
10/29/2024

Grief is a Journey: Two Paths Taken
10/29/2024

Message from the President
10/29/2024

Promoting Informed & Involved Voters
10/29/2024

What Will Be Your Legacy?
10/29/2024

1619, Approaching the Election...
10/27/2024

Beyond and Within the Village - A Star is Born
10/17/2024

Happiness by Priscilla Leonard
10/11/2024

Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden
10/11/2024

Unpainted Door by Louise Gluck
10/11/2024

In the Evening by Billy Collins
10/10/2024

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
10/10/2024

Betty Kilby, A Family History
10/01/2024

Betty Kilby, A Family History
10/01/2024

Betty Kilby, A Family History
10/01/2024

September 2024

August 2024

1619 Wide Ranging Interests
08/19/2024

1619 Wide Ranging Interests
08/19/2024

First Anniversary
08/19/2024

Alexandra Leaving by Leonard Cohen
08/16/2024

Muse des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden
08/16/2024

The God Abandons Antony by Constantinos P. Cavafy
08/16/2024

Ch – Ch – Ch –Changes
08/15/2024

Cultural Activities Team offers an ‘embarrassment of riches’
08/15/2024

Engaging in Pasadena Village
08/15/2024

Future Housing Options
08/15/2024

Message from the President
08/15/2024

There Are Authors Among Us
08/15/2024

Villagers Welcome New Members at the Tournament Park Picnic
08/15/2024

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
08/14/2024

A narrow Fellow in the Grass by Emily Dickinson
08/13/2024

Haikus
08/13/2024

One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
08/13/2024

Poem 20 by Pablo Neruda
08/13/2024

Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
08/13/2024

Trees by Joyce Kilmer
08/13/2024

July 2024

June 2024

May 2024

Emergency Preparedness: Are You Ready?
05/28/2024

Farewell from the 2023/24 Social Work Interns
05/28/2024

Gina on the Horizon
05/28/2024

Mark Your Calendars for the Healthy Aging Research California Virtual Summit
05/28/2024

Meet Our New Development Associate
05/28/2024

Putting the Strategic Plan into Practice
05/28/2024

Washington Park: Pasadena’s Rediscovered Gem
05/28/2024

Introducing Civil Rights Discussions
05/22/2024

Rumor of Humor #2416
05/14/2024

Rumor of Humor #2417
05/14/2024

Rumor of Humor #2417
05/14/2024

Rumor of Humor #2418
05/14/2024

Springtime Visitors
05/07/2024

Freezing for a Good Cause – Credit, That Is
05/02/2024

No Discussion Meeting on May 3rd
05/02/2024

An Apparently Normal Person Author Presentation and Book-signing
05/01/2024

Flintridge Center: Pasadena Village’s Neighbor That Changes Lives
05/01/2024

Pasadena Celebrates Older Americans Month 2024
05/01/2024

The 2024 Pasadena Village Volunteer Appreciation Lunch
05/01/2024

Woman of the Year: Katy Townsend
05/01/2024

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June Weddings, Summer, Father’s Day, and more

By John Tuite
Posted: 05/27/2021
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Men's Time Topic Discussion for Tuesday, June 1st

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!
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