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Newsletter
for November 7, 2007 |
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| Coming up next: 11/7 Terry Church, horse trainer and author Author of "Finding Pegasus" Moe Jacobson 11/14 Ken Altenberger Guide Dogs for the Blind 11/21 DARK DARK 11/28 Jim Spahr Medicare: Clarifying the Confusion Forrest leads the flag pledge. Thought for the Day: Ellie quotes Gilda Radner: “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment, and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.” And another anonymous one: “Life is not measure by the number of breath we take, but by the moments that take our breath way.“ PVR guests: Stu Gan, Terry’s fiancée. John S.'s brother, no family resemblance here!  Ann Moreno, Sunrise Rotary. Andrew Strong, John’s brother from England. Lucy, John’s Fijian nurse. Joseph More, Petaluma Cl.ub. Terry Church, speaker. Sunshine and Showers: We observed a moment of silence for Don Marquardt Liz’s husband. Shadi’s dad is ill so she is striking out on her own consulting business to enable her to spend more time with him. Good luck girl! Sue says grandson Ray’s surgery coming up, send a card, the little guy would be much appreciated Announcements: 11/7 Wed 7pm Rosary service at Parent Sorenson for Don Marquardt. 11/8 Thur 10am Funeral service for Don Marquardt. 11/13 Board Meeting 11/14 Rotary International Speaker here at PVR 11/15 SARC Sheraton 6pm, $35 per person, Petaluma Sunrise club hosting. 11/21 Dark, no meeting. 12/7 Holiday Party, Winter Wonderland theme at Petaluma Hotel. This year, bring presents before the event as well as pay before the event. $30 adults/ $18 for kids about 9 year old/ under 9 free 12/15 Sunrise and COTS party for kids. Sunrise Cioappino event for Phoenix, Pet BGC 1/16/08 Fellowship evening for dinner and thespian event at Jerrie’s Novato production. A Rotaract club starting for 18 to 40 years Rotarians. If you know someone like that, see if they my be interested. Connie says the Rotaract club at SSU is also starting recruitment.  Sara gets her blue badge- congrats!Fines Jennifer Carter’s Matt’s birthday- celebrated with wine tasting and dinner. Salut! Dave Johnson celebrates Karen’s BD, with dinner at K and L Bistro- excellent! Sue and Walt, wedding anniversary, Sue forgot! Walt saves day with movies and dinner. Ellie’s son Illya’s birthday- celebrates with two on phone with mom. My 4th club anniversary, yahoo!. Sally and Moe auction off remaining Oktoberfest items: Phil’s Deconstruction Massage goes to speaker Terry. Pamela gets the Gift Certificate to a jewelry store. Jim O’Grady gets the golf lesson with the PGA pro.  Linda P. got an emblembed Ugandan sweater. Thanks again all for such a great event! Raffle at $246- Layne draws, and wins! She generously gives back $50 to the club! Big heart Layne!  Pam and Jo read aloud new letters from sponsored kids including Ugandan complete orphan Winnie who requests money to attend secondary school-Connie offers to sponsor her in honor of her boy Jimmy’s birthday- can’t think of a better way to honor him Connie. Speaker: Terry Church, author, “Finding Pegasus” Terry wrote a novel, thirteen years in the making, fictionalizing her journey as an equestrian Olympian contender to spiritual horse trainer. She started her horse training business locally and it has now evolved to a national level. Terry began teaching children about horses at age 17 years old- finding that children and horse relationships can teach a lot about each other. She trained in dressage, the European horse riding technique which evolved from military applications of horsemanship, which competes with top hats and tuxedo tails.  Dresage is a very competitive sport, full of ambition, timing, and performing excellence. Unfortunately, these qualities don’t mesh with the horses which are very unhappy. While training in Europe and on track for Olympic team after 11 years, Terry had ruined a high strung thoroughbred and had to rethink what her ambitions were doing to her horses. Around that time, Terry met the horse whisperer, author Tom Dorrance, and he helped her re-evaluate her perspective on horse and rider relationships. Horses can help people rediscover their own qualities of patience, living in the moment, etc. Her book is inspired by Tom and shows her own personal changes and how her relationship with horses and natural world improved. In fact, Terry is now working with the non-profit Daily Acts, an organization which finds ways of land use in a more natural fashion (see www.daily-acts.org). Terry then read a passage from her book which describes some of her experience observing Tom’s relationship with horses. Intriguing Terry, thanks for the insight! Chow (the good eats kind)! |
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