June 15 Meeting at WMP, hosted by Edna

The June Bookclub was held on Thursday, the 15th, at War Memorial Park. There were only half of us there. We missed Grace & Pam, who were at Longwood Gardens and Alice, who was traveling around Ireland. Also missed were Pat and Louisa, who had health concerns. Drika, you are continually missed and our newest member, Rennie, who had a last minute home emergency. 

As per usual, the picnic supper was plentiful enough to supply half of the Park. I fixed potato salad and ham sandwiches and filled in with cheeses, pickles, olives, chips & dips, etc. Sharon brought some chicken salad and Sylvia & Kathy brought brownies & popcorn mix to go with the caramel apple pie, Angel food cake & berries with fresh cream. Does it sound like anyone went hungry??!!

We ate about 5:15 and started our discussion around 6:00pm. The book was Angel Encounters by Karen Goldman. I had seen the book at Sue’s when we visited after Mike’s passing and I thought it would be a comfort for me to read; plus I wanted to hear accounts of peoples’ real life encounters with Angelic forces. While everyone at the meeting stated that they do believe in angels, most of the stories were just ok. Carol thought that a lot of them were LSD encounters more than Angel encounters. A few people brought up personal encounters that either they had or someone they knew had happen. I thought after reading it, the book was not quite up to what I was hoping for. Everyone agreed that her style of writing was repetitive and not very good.

Members; Carol, Kathy, Roe, Sylvia, Sharon and I were joined for the evening of music by friends who sat and ate and shared our company which was very enjoyable. The band, Cashmere, was great!!
The next Bookclub meeting for July will also be held at War Memorial Park at 5:00pm on the second Thursday, July 13th hosted by Kathy. Sorry I will miss seeing you then, but I will see all in August, hopefully; when I return from England!! Ta’ra & pip-pip Cheerio!!!!

Edna