WEDNESDAY’S WOMEN’S BOOKCLUB
The hostess provides drinks and dessert.
Attendees should bring a sandwich and
RSVP to the hostess each month.
We are not meeting in February, but get ready for
March and April!
March 14th: The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by
Kim Edwards; at Sydney Kennedy’s home (454-
0526.)
April 11th: The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss;
at Cathy Kirk’s home (457-3841.)
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MARK YOUR CALENDARS
FOR OUR SPEAKER SERIES -
WEDNESDAYS IN THE
ONE EARTH LENT
This is a community based speaker series featuring
local concerns. Everyone is invited and welcome!
Programs last an hour and coffee and refreshments
will be served.
Wednesday, March 7th, 7 pm:
Reduce, reuse, recycle: An evening with Joe
Garbarino, founder of the award winning Marin
Recycling Center.
Wednesday, March 14th, 7 pm:
Greening your home with environmental engineer
Mary Bryan. Simple things with surprising impact
that you can do right now.
Wednesday, March 21st
, 7pm:
Restoring our rivers and creeks, speaker TBA.
And the Final New Life After Easter Day
Saturday, April 14th, 9 – 1:
Community emergency preparedness day led by our
extraordinary team of firefighters, John Chung,
Rudy Erler and Bruce Samson.
FIFTEEN LENTEN THINGS YOU CAN DO
TO LIVE BOTH RICHLY AND LIGHTLY:
1.
Shop at the Farmers’ Market: Enjoy fresh,
local food without chemicals;
2.
Give your car a Sabbath rest every week;
3.
Start a prayer practice;
4.
Do a forty day vegetarian feast for Lent;
5.
Be a Burning Bush and don’t consume: try
to go forty days without buying any stuff;
6.
Broaden your perspective: make friends
with someone in your neighborhood;
7.
Do your errands with a friend;
8.
Trade one auto-intensive activity for a
family walk by the bay;
9.
Resign from one committee that you have
to drive miles to get to;
10.
Volunteer at the Humane Society and fall in
love with non-human life;
11.
Share a newspaper or magazine
subscription with friends: save paper;
12.
Save even more paper and get your books
from the library;
13.
Drink shade grown fair trade coffee or a
locally grown tea;
14.
Walk, bicycle or use public transportation
to get to work;
15.
Get new clothes the easy and sustainable
way: trade with a friend!
Want to know how many earths are needed to
support you personally?
Calculate your environmental footprint at
And remember that your best friend is God.
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EXPLORING THE BIBLICAL
LANDSCAPE in February and March
February 4:
The tree of life
February 11:
Our second Annual EVOLUTION
SUNDAY
February 18:
The Mountain of Transfiguration
February 25:
The Wilderness
March 4:
Jerusalem
March 11:
Beyond the Wilderness: Mt. Horeb
March 18:
A Distant Country
March 25:
Bethany
A book of Theological Reflections: The One Earth
Lent, will be available, God willing, before Ash
Wednesday, both in print format at a nominal cost
and as downloadable PDFs on our website.
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