On Saturday night, March 21st, we gathered at Rozanne, Michael and Shaina's for our March Reflection. The topic this time centered on the quotes of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. As always we enjoyed the food, and Rozanne's special touch made it out of this world. Her beet salad, carrot salad, homemade hummus, rosemary chicken, yogurt dip and especially the secret recipe wine cake were fabulous. Michael acted as our bartender serving wine and soda, and Shaina greeted guests and took their coats.
In the opening go-around, Rozanne shared that through the BHC she has begun visiting hospice patients at the Visiting Nurse Service Hospice, and that she finds the work enormously satisfying. I also reported that while I was not medically cleared to visit patients, I asked to work with veterans, and the volunteer coordinator has assigned a World War II veteran to me, for periodic telephone calls.
Constance provided the quotes and gave us a short biography of Desmond Tutu. We circled the room reading his quotes aloud, and then gave our resonances and reflections on the ones that spoke to us. I mentioned that a professor in college had said something rather similar to Tutu's statement about neutrality as an inappropriate response where there is injustice and a grave imbalance of power. Antoinette pointed out Archbishop Tutu's statement that everyone is entitled to a stable community and that the first of these communities is the family. Many of us contributed our thoughts to the reflective conversation, and Kurt provided us with his insights into Integral Spirituality.
As we decided at the recent membership meeting, people brought nonperishables to be donated to a local food pantry.
It was a delightful evening. Kudos to Rozanne, Michael and Shaina for their hospitality, and our thanks as well to Constance and Kurt for running another excellent Reflection.
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