Feb 17, 2018 — Feb 23, 2018 www.lathrop.kendal.org

Quarterly Birthday Parties

with a Valentine twist were

celebrated on both campuses.

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Saturday, February 17 “Saturday Supper” Soup: Cream of Mushroom Soup

Salad: Fruit Cocktail

Entrée 1: Hot Dog

Entrée 2: Tuna Casserole

Entrée 3: Breaded Chicken Breast

Side Dishes: Baked Beans, French Fries, Spinach

Dessert: Chocolate Pudding

Sunday, February 18 Soup: Senate Bean Soup

Salad: Fresh Apples w/Balsamic Vinegar & Bleu Cheese

Entrée 1: Mahi Mahi on Roasted Pineapple Sauce

Entrée 2: Roast Eye Round w/Ginger Snap Gravy

Side Dishes: Wasabi Mashed Potatoes, Sugar Snap Peas, Carrots Tzimmes

Dessert: Cheesecake

Monday, February 19 Soup: Chicken Corn Chowder

Salad: Pickled Beet Salad

Entrée 1: Blackened Salmon served on warm Black Bean Soubise

Entrée 2: Portabello Mushroom Wellington

Side Dishes: Oven Roasted New Potatoes, Brussel Sprouts w/Bacon Dressing, Julienne Vegetable

Dessert: Chocolate Napoleon

Tuesday, February 20 Soup: Savannah Style Crab Soup

Salad: Orzo and Squash Salad

Entrée 1: Chicken Picatta

Entrée 2: Boston Bluefish

Side Dishes: Mushroom Risotto, Zucchini Provençale, Cauliflower

Dessert: Apple Betty w/Vanilla Ice Cream

Wednesday, February 21 Soup: Italian Wedding Soup

Salad: Key Lime and Coconut Spinach Salad

Entrée 1: Shrimp and Scallop in Tasso Cream Sauce w/Saffron Rice

Entrée 2: Chicken Divan

Side Dishes: Saffron Rice, Salsify, Green Beans and Mushrooms

Dessert: Apple Fritters

Thursday, February 22 Soup: Shrimp Bisque

Salad: Cous Cous Salad w/Chick Peas

Entrée 1: Chicken Oscar

Entrée 2: Flounder w/Apple and Onion Confit

Side Dishes: Sweet Potato Dauphinoise, Asparagus, Baked Roma Tomato Parmesan

Dessert: Tiramisu

Friday, February 23 Soup: Cock-a-leekie Soup

Salad: Orange Bean Salad

Entrée 1: Breast of Duckling Cassoulet

Entrée 2: Spaghetti w/Meat Sauce

Side Dishes: Broccoli Polonaise, Yellow Beets

Dessert: Chocolate Cream Pie

In addition to the daily special, there is a

selection of other items that are always available.

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HAPPENINGS

On This Week’s Calendar Sunday, 2/18, at 2:30: Music Committee

presents Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio

(MTR)

French composer Claude

Bolling's idea of mixing jazz, the greatest musical

movement of the 20th cen-

tury, and classical music

was revolutionary. He be-

came renowned as the cre-

ator of “crossover music,”

and the Suite was enor-

mously popular when the

recording was released in

1976.

Our four musicians are notable ones. Sue Kurian will

play the flute. She studied with Jean-Pierre Rampal,

who performed on the original recording. Lynn

Lovell is principal bassist with the Pioneer Valley

Symphony Orchestra. Pianist Meg Kelsey Wright has

collaborated with other musicians in concerts

throughout New England. Billy Arnold's accomplish-

ments as a drummer were recognized by President

Barack Obama.

Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio is an acclaimed

work, blending classical music and jazz in an uncon-

ventional, distinctive way. Don't miss it!

Tuesday, 2/20, at 7:00: Pascommuck Trust

Annual Meeting (MTR)

Following its short business meeting, Pascommuck

Trust invites all residents to its feature presentation:

"Native Plants as Insect Habitat" by Charley Eiseman,

a freelance naturalist, conducting plant and wildlife

surveys for various nonprofits, state agencies, and

universities throughout New England. Each native

plant has insects that depend on it for food. Using a

number of common New England plants as exam-

ples, Mr. Eiseman will introduce us to some of these

insects, their natural history, and signs of their pres-

ence to look for on their host plants. His close-up

photos will provide an unusual perspective on the

tiny animals that are going about their lives right un-

der our noses.

Wednesday, 2/21, at 3:30: Music Committee

presents the Monthly Singalong

(MTR)

Don't forget to join us for our month-

ly Singalong. You don't need a beauti-

ful voice, just a beautiful spirit! Music

is provided; newcomers are always

welcome.

Silver Screen in the MTR at 7:15 Saturday, 2/17: Dirty Dancing

Wednesday, 2/21: 90 Minutes in Heaven

Still Time to Sign Up! Saturday, 2/17: Music at Amherst Series presents the

International Contemporary Ensemble at Buckley Hall

Wednesday, 2/21: TCM presents The Philadelphia

Story on the big screen at West Springfield Theater

Free Drawing Classes There has been much interest in making art at Mill

180 in Easthampton. Susanna White, who recently

gave a presentation at Lathrop, has generously of-

fered to give free drawing classes to Lathrop resi-

dents, from the beginner drawer to the advanced.

Classes will be Thursdays, 10:30am -12pm. Trans-

portation for up 12 will also be made available. Of

course, if you want to drive on your own, you are

welcome to do so. Don’t be shy. She taught art for

over 20 years and would like the Mill to flourish by

utilizing its space for different artistic endeavors. It is

a win win for Lathrop and Mill 180. Any resources

required for the class will be provided.

Please let Julie Robbins know (if you haven’t already)

via email at jrobbins@lathrop.kendal.org, placing a

note in her cubby, or calling her at 437-5377 by

TUESDAY, FEB 20th. Classes will hopefully begin in

March.

Two Special Movie Events in the MTR: Saturday, 2/17, at 10:30: The #1 Ladies Detective

Agency: A Botswanan woman starts up the country's

first female-owned detective agency. Based on the

series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith.

Monday, 2/19, at 1:30: A Chorus Line: Hopefuls try

out before a demanding director for a part in a new

musical.

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OUR LATHROP LAND

Water, Water, Everywhere

By Barbara Walvoord

“Water, water, everywhere,” part of a line from Co-

leridge’s 18th-century “Rime of the Ancient Mari-

ner,” is undoubtedly quoted (perhaps unwittingly) by

our architects and planners at Lathrop’s east campus

these days, as they plan new buildings that must

avoid our land’s extensive web of streams and wet-

lands.

But our water is much more than an irritating limit

on our building plans. Like Coleridge’s mariner, we

face a much more complicated paradox. He and his

fellow sailors, becalmed at sea and out of drinking

water, have “water, water, everywhere, nor any

drop to drink.” The mariner has killed an albatross,

and the poem explores the disastrous outcome of

this violation of nature and of life. To be redeemed,

the mariner must come to a deeper, more reverent

view of his world, its water, and its creatures.

Like the mariner, we at Lathrop need a nuanced

and reverent view of our water and our world.

Our Lathrop water protects us. Scientists pre-

dict that, with climate change, New England will

actually have more precipitation, but it will come

in fiercer storms; will be interspersed with

droughts; and will come as rain in winter, thus

reducing the snowpack that nourishes the soil in

spring and summer. Our Lathrop wetlands can

buffer flooding, retain water on the land instead

of sending it through storm drains into the river

and the ocean, and provide drinking water for

our creatures during droughts.

Our Lathrop water is vulnerable. Our east cam-

pus lies above the Barnes Aquifer, a critical re-

source for our area, and the source of drinking

water for Easthampton and several surrounding

communities. Yet deadly chemicals have flowed into

part of the aquifer, requiring the closing of some

wells (not in Easthampton). www.gazettenet.com/

Barnes-Aquifer-Protection-Committee-discusses-

private-well-testing-in-Westfield-due-recent-findings-

of-contamination-7966841

“Everything we do on the land gets written in the

water” observes Oregon sheep farmer Mary Wahl

(Helping You Help Your Land, Natural Resources

Conservation Service, 2008). At Lathrop, it’s not

enough to avoid building on our wetlands. We must

also protect our water by avoiding chemicals, fol-

lowing environmental best practices for our con-

struction, and filling our land with native plants that

act as a sponge and a purifier, while supporting our

butterflies, bees, bobcats, hawks, owls, and--if we

had any--our albatrosses.

The Land Conservation Committee welcomes new

members no matter their level of mobility. Contact

walvoord@nd.edu. See our website at

111.lathropland.wordpress.com.

Wetland lies everywhere at Lathrop.

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WELLNESS MATTERS

Partnering for Purpose

By Rob Olmsted

I’m paving a road with intention. I don’t spend a lot

of time considering where it’s going. We all know

where the road will ultimately go. What I most care

about is momentum. I like a road with as few ruts as

possible, of course, but mostly I am pointing this

road toward what interests, what nourishes, toward

possibilities that might answer some of my questions

and heal some of the wounded spots. It’s my road,

after all.

Talking to folks I see how easy it easy to let the road

stall, to keep traveling the same stretch over and

over, to get stuck in the cul-de-sacs. The justifica-

tions about why are many, some real and some con-venient or just well-practiced. Road building is ex-

hausting, especially when you’ve got lots of miles be-

hind you already. Need we always be building new

stretches? What about the essential demand that the

old roads be maintained, with better drainage, im-

proved vistas and renewed landscaping?

Whether we are paving the road to somewhere yet

unvisited or just filling in potholes, the progress, I

suggest, goes better when we aren’t the only person

paying attention. If I hold the belief that this is my life

road alone, I can just choose to go around the rut-

ted parts or keep circling the donut shop. But when

we do accept the challenge of re-paving or extend-

ing, many of us just find intention is not enough. We

need inspiration and we need support to remind us

where we said we wanted that road to go.

Now you may be blessed with a life partner who can

provide the support you need without letting their

own road-building block or delay your progress.

Perhaps that person is gone, as is the dear friend

that provided reflection, or encouragement. Perhaps

that person never really appeared. We men don’t

seem so comfortable collaborating, but there are

plenty of lonely travelers here of either gender.

One way I’ve found that might serve as a model is a

program called Cojourn, originally the Co-

Accountancy Project, created by a UMASS doctoral

student and her partner. I have found a Cojourn

partner, and we are committed to a weekly half hour

call, structured around sharing of intentions and the

small weekly goals we set for ourselves. We have

asked our partner to listen, to question but not to

judge or suggest without being asked. What we’ve

done is ask another person over the course of a

year to bear witness on our behalf as to how we are

attempting to direct our growth.

Here at Lathrop I am very encouraged when I hear

about the deep benefit that a group of painters re-

ceive from their weekly time together sharing and

encouraging their work. There is an active group of

writers who serve to support and stimulate each

other’s efforts. Ultimately as adults we are account-

able for our own choices, but it’s important to know

we are not alone in our struggle to be so. I hope all

are continuing to place their paving stones of inten-

tion, whether it’s to strengthen a fitness habit, to

address a better diet, to spend more time on a pro-

ject or connecting with others. Enlisting a partner

on purpose might be a way to get momentum start-

ed and keep the road rolling out ahead of you.

[Mollie, the founder of Cojourn, still lives in the area

and, if folks are interested to learn more, would love

to come out to speak with us. They can be found

on the web at cojourn.org]

Seeking Fitness Supporters in

Easthampton With the recent grant from the Residents’ Associa-

tion, Easthampton has been able to acquire some

new, professional equipment for the fitness room.

It’s an exciting first step in building a vibrant fitness

program on campus. There is a committee forming

to direct the planning, and there’s room for

more. What’s needed now is a group of volunteer resi-

dents to get the training needed to provide peer demon-

stration on using the new equipment. The grant covers

the cost of a professional demo that we will then

share to get people up to speed. Rob has agreed to

produce a manual out of the group training. If

you’re willing to be an equipment demonstration

volunteer, please contact Bill Holloway at 203-5000

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Meeting House Activities

Saturday, February 17

10:00 Guided Meditation Group

Sunday, February 18

2:00: Movie: I Am Not Your Negro

Monday, February 19—OFFICE CLOSED

10:00 Art Studio—LL

11:00 Yoga

2:00 Healthy Bones and Balance

Tuesday, February 20

12:00 French Film series: Umbrellas of Cherbourg

2:00 Little Rock School Integration Presentation

3:30 English Country Dancing

Wednesday, February 21

9:00 Foot Clinic

10:00 Men’s Group

11:00 Caregiver’s Support Group

12:30 Luncheon

2:00 Handcrafts

3:00 Pool—LL

Thursday, February 22 (Trash and Recycling)

10:00 Errands Van Trip

10:00 Art Studio

2:00 Healthy Bones and Balance

Friday, February 23

9:30 Just-sitting: Silent Meditation

10:00 Games—Library

11:15 Yoga

Other Meeting House Events

Tuesday, February 20

12:00 Card Group

5:30—9:00 private Bereavement Group

Celebrating Birthdays this week

Caroline Arnold

NeighborCare News

Audrey Bernstein is the NeighborCare person for

February. She can be reached at 413-727-8523 or

audjb@earthlink.net

Wednesday Lunch Special Chicken Corn Chowder is this week’s soup! Please

get your order in by 2 pm on Tuesday before the

Wednesday luncheon. Cost $3.50 for Soup w/Fruit or cookies

Eyewitness to History: Little Rock

School Integration Crisis Jim Dowell recounts the days leading up to and fol-

lowing this historic event, 60 years ago. Tuesday,

2/20, at 2pm at the Meeting House.

French For Lunch, 2/20: Umbrellas of

Cherbourg Geneviève, a beautiful young French-

woman who works at a small-town bou-

tique selling umbrellas, falls for dashing

mechanic Guy. Their brief romance is

interrupted when Guy is drafted to serve

in the Algerian War. Though pregnant by

Guy, Geneviève marries an older businessman, Roland,

and begins to move on with her life. Throughout the musi-

cal film, all the characters' dialogue is conveyed through

song.

North Neighbors Every resident with an email address on the Northampton

campus has recently been added to the NorthNeighbors

email discussion list. Since its beginning last August, the

exchange has given us opportunities to request transpor-

tation, share sightings of wildlife, note community events,

offer tickets to shows, and much more. The emails are

generally no more than a few messages a week and anyone

who does not want to belong can opt out through a link at

the bottom of each message (or contact Dale LaBonte

dale.labonte@gmail.com 413-313-5771). NorthNeigh-

bors@googlegroups.com is often used in tandem with

NeighborCare, but does not replace that option to handle

needs confidentially.

Staff Office Hours:

The office will be closed, Monday, 2/19 in observance of

President’s Day. Rob is on vacation; there will be no clinic

hours this week. Please call Lucie at the Inn: 437-5322

Thom Wright: Thursday 8:00 ~ 4:00

Friday 8:00 ~ 4:00

HAPPENINGS