Wouldn't You Like To Come?
Sign-ups are being accepted now for this year's Women's Retreat which will be held at Verdugo Pines Camp in Wrightwood, September 23-25, 2011. The theme this year is Discovering and Celebrating Our Passion. The program, which will include an opportunity to take the Myers-Briggs Personality Test, will be led by
Ginger Cash M.F.C.C., who is a gifted teacher and discussion leader. The cost is $140.00. Questions? Call Kathy Eppick 562-972-2776. The sign-up sheet is on the communications bulletin board. Come join the fun, discover your passion, and make new friends.
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Photo of the Week 
This is a painting of a lodgepole pine that Mary McCarthy did while at the women's retreat several years ago in Verdugo Pines. You never know what passion you may get in touch with this year at the women's retreat!
And a poem Mary wrote while up there in 2009.....
did you ever have a friend as beautiful as the night sky?
dark velvety smoothness
with jagged edges
it's a shimmering milky way of madness
your black hole pulling at
my deep buried sadness
never ending but not empty
then heavens declare
glories and praises
comfort and care
the morgue cold earth
a cradle for my back
not for death but for birth
blinking alive in the black
the universe a blanket
woven from a single thread
a swaddling of starlight
and pillow for my head
alone but not lonely
listening to nothing at all
no ghetto birds buzzing
no throbbing city noise
the theory of silly string
now amusingly real
in silence and darkness
I'm learning to feel
river blinded eyes
found the power of sight
riveted by stardust
breadcrumbs of light
tossed across high above
a sure highway home
walking in faith
educated in love.
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