2011-2012 BOOK and HOSTESS

13 Sept - Labor Day at Robin's
11 Oct - American Buffalo at Sarah's
8 Nov - Sarah's Key at Cathi's
13 Dec -Beside a Burning Sea at Dayle's
10 Jan - no book China City
7 Feb - Secret Lives of Hoarders at Karen's
6 Mar - Lotus Eaters at Dayle's
10 Apr - Mink River at Candace's
8 May - The Lacuna at Louie's
12 Jun - The Golden Compass at Pam's
July - Picnic at Madelyn's
20-22 Aug - Retreat Seabrook

Saturday, January 7, 2012

DECEMBER 13, 2011 
Meeting at Dayle's
Book: Beside a Burning Sea
We had a great potluck dinner for our meeting.
 Tuna sashimi, just like they ate in the book! (Well, maybe a few extra goodies . . .)
 And yummy appetisers before the Indonesian chicken skewers with peanut sauce and rice -wow!
After dinner, we discussed the book, which featured Haiku poetry. Sarah gave us an assignment to write our own Haiku, and here are the results:

The crisp cold clear night
Gives way to the spicy joyful warmth
Of the blessed holiday gathering.

Slow in the morning
Coldness, darkness makes me late
Frost on the windshield.

Icicle lights on
Only so many hours
Guarantee runs out

Before language counts
- no, I wanna 'lectric train
fine-ly four years old.

Cold day, nights so long
Kan arrives with storm and squall
Rose blooms forever.

Still in its coldness
Day awakens softly
and I am thoughtful.

Without the sun shining
coldness moves within and without
to carry us to spring.

Golden leaves glowing
full moon shadows under trees
owls huddled in cold

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