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Post by Brian on Nov 11, 2009 0:00:19 GMT -8
Now it's only three days until Saturday, Nov. 14! One week, yes, ONE WEEK, from today, Empty Bowls will be happening.
5-8:30 PM, Crescenta Valley United Methodist Church, 2700 Montrose Ave.
Beautiful bowls, made by beautiful volunteers (some by anni. Will you be able to find her handiwork?)
Delicious soup made by hearty chefs.
Wonderful music. Classical, jazz, piano, guitar, harp. And some 50's sounds from Heavy Mellow. And a special appearance by Forrest Robinson, Paige's husband.
Awesome silent auction items. (I tell you this, even though it may mean that you outbid me on the Paul Newman DVD collection.)
All of these good things in one place at one time so that our community can enjoy time together, sharing a common goal of helping people get enough to eat. Your presence at Empty Bowls will be a way to help make peace in the world. It's hard to feel and act peacefully when you are hungry.
I hope to see you and all of your friends there. What the heck, bring your enemies too. Nothing can top Jeanne there, not even her webpage about the event, which has links to more pages and a map: www.cvemptybowls.org/events.html: I'll just add that the previous Empty Bowls was one of my favorite events last year. I took home four exquisite bowls, fond memories and a glow of enduring goodwill. The soups were great too. Hope to see you Saturday evening!
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Post by Sharon W on Nov 15, 2009 9:06:49 GMT -8
We really enjoyed the soup and company last night, and especially our new bowls. Here's the link to the McGroarty Arts Center event - it's a Holiday Boutique with a Chili Bowl Sale (for $10 you get chili & corn bread and keep the hand made bowl) - but everyone calls it an "empty bowl" event. www.mcgroartyartscenter.org/programs/events-and-workshops/55-coming-soon-the-annual-holiday-boutiqueThe man who sat with us, Alan, I believe, was interested in it so I told him I'd let Jeanne know when it was. Another lady at our table was delighted that the bowls were washed for us last night, she said at the McGroarty event you have to take home a dirty chili bowl!
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Post by Jeanne on Nov 15, 2009 19:15:29 GMT -8
] The man who sat with us, Alan, I believe, was interested in it so I told him I'd let Jeanne know when it was. Another lady at our table was delighted that the bowls were washed for us last night, she said at the McGroarty event you have to take home a dirty chili bowl![/quote] A little Empty Bowls background: Alan has being doing an Empty Bowls in Glendora for six years and helped us get started. He attends as many as he can. He is a gentle, retired police officer. I say that to help dispel stereotypes. They donate 1/3 of their funds to the police to have a discretionary fund for when they pick up vagrants. The concept originated in the midwest in the early 90's. Some high school ceramics students wanted to do something to ease hunger and they made bowls to sell to their faculty as a fundraiser. The idea was so wonderful, that it took off. It has gone national. There is a website www.emptybowls.org. (sorry I can't make it blue Anyone is welcome to host an Empty Bowls event. The requirement is that the bowls are handmade and that all of the funds go to local hunger missions. We stretch that a bit by sending one third to Burma, but our connection is local. So no one should call the McGroarty fundraiser Empty Bowls. It is a fundraiser for McGroarty, which is a very worthy cause. In a sense, a local, independent organization that nurtures the arts is feeding hungry souls. And that's a very good thing. Angie Knowlton who played her heavenly harp for us last night teaches at McGroarty and is very involved. WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER. So, if you aren't over bowled, check out the chili bowl event. While you're out cruising for locally hand made objects, the ceramics sale at the community center in La Canada is the same weekend. This may seem overwhelming, but it beats going to the mall. On another note, I am totally understanding of Roberta and her occasional technical challenges, of which some have made light. I've been on this message board over a year and I still can't do the boxes. I did it once by accident. I need a sweet nanny to hold my hand and show me.
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Post by Roberta on Nov 16, 2009 13:44:28 GMT -8
Somehow I manage to get the box, but the identifying info will only come out in computer gibberish. This is Jeanne from over the weekend sometime:
In the library I always knew when we were due for another conversion, when we had sort of mastered the previous one.
Now I prefer to just wait it out!
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Post by Brian on Nov 16, 2009 22:31:30 GMT -8
Anni and I could demonstrate how to make quote boxes at your house, Jeanne (and you could show me how to work a laptop without a mouse). I didn't do them well for a year or two when I started posting on message boards. But this is the main thing:
[ quote ] Put your cursor here. [ /quote ] (I added spaces so you could read the code.)
The method to which Roberta refers is my favorite because it automatically identifies who you're quoting and what times they posted. Click on the "quote" icon at the top of the post. It takes you to the familiar reply screen. Make sure you set your cursor at the very end of that block of type and hit enter twice. You're set to respond. If you want to cut some of the quotation, just take care to stay between the block of code on top and the [ /quote ] at the end.
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Post by Jeanne on Nov 17, 2009 23:01:35 GMT -8
Anni and I could demonstrate how to make quote boxes at your house, Jeanne (and you could show me how to work a laptop without a mouse). I didn't do them well for a year or two when I started posting on message boards. But this is the main thing: [ quote ] Put your cursor here. [ /quote ] (I added spaces so you could read the code.) The method to which Roberta refers is my favorite because it automatically identifies who you're quoting and what times they posted. Click on the "quote" icon at the top of the post. It takes you to the familiar reply screen. Make sure you set your cursor at the very end of that block of type and hit enter twice. You're set to respond. If you want to cut some of the quotation, just take care to stay between the block of code on top and the [ /quote ] at the end testing. I prefer a laptop mouse to a real mouse. It feels more direct.
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Post by Roberta on Nov 19, 2009 8:04:20 GMT -8
A method to my random clicking and typing to arrive at a sort-of quote box ? Thanks for the good chuckle.
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Post by Brian on Nov 26, 2009 0:01:04 GMT -8
I don't know why I could not find a nice link to the Ceramics Sale at the Community Center of La Canada Flintridge happening in just two weekends after this long one. We have Jeanne's word and I swear I read a webpage about it recently, somewhere besides here, but there's no mention of the event on www.cclcf.org. Maybe the community center took it down for some reason. I did find a pdf touting the 2008 Ceramics Sale. Anyway, it's prudent to mark your calendars for Dec. 11-13. Proceeds from the sale of the bowls at Jeanne's table go to three charities that feed the hungry locally and in Burma. And it's safe to assume that we won't see her on the corner that Friday during the opening night reception.
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Post by anni on Dec 8, 2009 18:35:39 GMT -8
Here's my best effort to share the beautiful flyer with my friends:
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Post by Brian on Dec 11, 2009 0:00:07 GMT -8
With the Holiday Ceramic Sale starting today, let's post the invitation one more time. If you can't see the image below, click on www.cclcf.org for the flyer -- those are Empty Bowls in the upper left frame: Montrose Peace Vigil will miss Jeanne on the corner tonight while she's at the opening reception with the other vendors and artists. The bowls are returning to the community center, where they were born over four months, ready to find a home with you or those on your gift list, some of the more beautiful ones wondering why they weren't chosen at November's popular fundraiser. For more information about the charities that Crescenta Valley Empty Bowls supports: www.cvemptybowls.org/hunger.html
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