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Mar 8-13, 2022 w/ JCC & around town

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Lent @ JCC, Council mtg, voting @town polls, library book discussion, chair yoga returns, fitness classes, Mtn Top Music concerts, Angling presentation, Birds of the Year, Jxn School Bd, interfaith, youth faith formation, worship, music around town!

TUE, Mar 8th – SUN, MAR 13th
Second Week of Lent

TUE, Mar 8

  • VOTING in several communities: Jackson & Bartlett included.
  • Community Resource: BLACK MOUNTAIN
    Downhill ski events & conditions: https://www.blackmt.com/events
  • Community Resource: JACKSON SKI TOURING
    Info and Trail report: https://www.jacksonxc.org/trail-report/
  • CLERGY LUNCH
    12:30pm • Zoom
    Local clergy convene for conversations, ecumenical event-planning, and peer support. Rev Gail attends.
  • Community Event: CHAIR YOGA RETURNS!
    9:15 am  (and every Tuesday through March) • Zoom
    Registration Link. If you’ve previously registered, you do not have to re-register.
    Please have weights,  tennis ball or small rubber ball and a strap. We will as a group explore upper body strength, stretching the full body and lower body strength and flexibility.  Since this will be Anjali’s first class since her injury, she will be taking it slow yet you can always increase the challenge or slow it down to fit your needs for the day.
    Here is the zoom registration link.  
  • Community Resource: LIBRARIES
    • 10am-7pm • Jackson Library
      Contact the library for additional help: 603.383.9731 or by email: staff@jacksonlibrary.org
    • 2-5pm • Bartlett Library 
  • Community Event: BOOK DISCUSSION – Finding the Source
    4:30pm • Jackson Public Library
    email: staff@jacksonlibrary.org
  • Community Event: MUSIC AROUND TOWN
    • Wildcat Tavern: Hoot Night with Jonathan Sarty • 6-8:30pm

WED, Mar 9

  • FITNESS CLASS with Laurie McAleer
    9:30am • JCC Parish House
    Free. Gentle fitness and stretching customized to your needs. Appropriate for all ages and abilities.
  • Community Event: A YEAR of BIRDS (Whitney Community Ctr program)
    7pm • Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82106172744#success
    What birds can you expect to see each month of the year? Take a trip through the seasons with Lori Jean Kinsey, Executive Director of TMCC, looking at what birds you can anticipate seeing each month of the year. Owls in January, Warblers in May, and Hawks in October. There’s never a dull month in the year of birds!  If you have questions or need help signing up please contact Katie Reardon from the Friends of the Whitney Community Center/Oversight Committee: whitneycommunitycenter@gmail.com or 603-969-9428. All programs are free and sponsored by Friends of the Whitney Community Center/Oversight Committee
  • Community Resource: BLACK MOUNTAIN
    Downhill ski events & conditions: https://www.blackmt.com/events
  • Community Resource: JACKSON SKI TOURING
    Info and Trail report: https://www.jacksonxc.org/trail-report/
  • Community Resource: LIBRARIES
  • Community Events: MUSIC AROUND TOWN
    • Red Parka: Jon Sarty • 5-7:30pm
    • Wildcat Tavern: Simon Crawford • 6-9pm
  • COUNCIL MTG
    7pm • Zoom link and password required.
    Leadership meeting to review fiscal, governance and mission-based decisions of the church.

THURS, Mar 10

  • Community Resource: BLACK MOUNTAIN
    Downhill ski events & conditions: https://www.blackmt.com/events
  • Community Resource: JACKSON SKI TOURING
    Info and Trail report: https://www.jacksonxc.org/trail-report/
  • Community Resource: LIBRARIES
  • ** CANCELLED due to Dotti’s recovery from ski accident ** ZUMBA with Dotti Aiello  **
    Contact Dotti Aiello for more info: dottiaiello@gmail.com
  • Community Service: WAY STATION SHIFT
    All Day • Way Station, 15 Grove St, No Conway
    Volunteers open day resource center for showers, mail pickup, grocery distribution, more.
  • Community Event: STEVE ANGLER: Fishing NH’s Secret Waters (Tin Mtn Conservation Center) 7pm • Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84279279862
    Learn about Fishing New Hampshire’s Secret Waters and the brook trout they hold with author and North County Angler owner Steve Angers. Steve will talk about fly tackle and tactica to catch wild brook trout in some of New Hampshire’s most beautiful and remote locations.
  • Community Event: JACKSON SCHOOL BOARD MTG
    7pm • In-person
  • Community Events: MUSIC AROUND TOWN
    • Wildcat Tavern: Rafe Matregrano • 6-9pm

FRI, Mar 11

  • NEW: FITNESS CLASS with Laurie McAleer
    9:30am • JCC Parish House
    Free. Gentle fitness and stretching customized to your needs. Appropriate for all ages and abilities.
  • Community Event: FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS
    Black Mtn, Jxn
    Downhill ski events & conditions: https://www.blackmt.com/events
  • Community Resource: JACKSON SKI TOURING
    Info and Trail report: https://www.jacksonxc.org/trail-report/
    • Register now for Programs: 603-383-9355
    • Friday Sliders & Gliders: Jan – mid-March
  • Community Resource: LIBRARIES
    • 2pm-5pm • Jackson Library
      Contact the library for additional help: 603.383.9731 or by email: staff@jacksonlibrary.org
  • C3: COCKTAILS & CHRISTIAN CONVERSATION
    5pm • Zoom link and password required.
    Bring your adult beverage and your curiosity for a conversation about our sacred texts.
  • Community Event: MAJESTIC CAFE CONCERT – Mike Hathaway, Jon Deveneau, Brian Hathaway (Mountain Top Music)
    7pm • Majestic Theater, Conway Village
    Info & tickets: https://mountaintop.ludus.com/index.php
  • Community Events: MUSIC AROUND TOWN
    • Wildcat Tavern: Al Shafner • 6-9pm
    • Shannon Door: Marty Quirk • 6-9pm
    • Red Parka: The Big Picture • 8-11pm
    • Shovel Handle: Bobby Sheehan • 6-9pm
    • Black Mountain: Candie Tremblay (Après Ski) • 3:30 to 5:30pm.

SAT, Mar 12

  • Community Resource: SPRING FEST: Mt Washington Valley Adaptive Sports
    Morning • Attitash
  • Community Resource: BLACK MOUNTAIN
    Downhill ski events & conditions: https://www.blackmt.com/events
  • Community Resource: JACKSON SKI TOURING
    Info and Trail report: https://www.jacksonxc.org/trail-report/
  • Community Resource: LIBRARIES
  • MUSIC AROUND TOWN
    • Red Parka Pub: Riley Parkhurst Project • 8-11pm
    • Shannon Door: Scott Baer • 4-6pm / Marty Quirk • 7-10pm
    • Wildcat Tavern: Al Shafner (Apres Ski)  8 3-5pm / Jonathan Sarty • 6-9pm
    • Black Mountain: Swamp Dog (Après  Ski) •  3:30 -5:30pm.

SUN, Mar 13

  • INTERFAITH GATHERING
    8am • Old Red Library & Zoom (Zoom link and password required)
    Join us for poetry, prayer, and conversation.
  • WORSHIP
    10:30am • (zoom & in-person – Zoom link and password required.)
    • Music by Alan Labrie
    • Message by Rev Gail Pomeroy Doktor
  • MUSIC AROUND TOWN
    • Red Parka Pub: Mitch Alden • 4-7pm
    • Shovel Handle Pub: Rek’lis Duo • 5:30-8:30pm
    • Shannon Door: Sheehan & Holden • 6-9pm
    • Black Mountain: Scott Baer (Après  Ski)• 3:30-5:30pm.
  • Community Resource: BLACK MOUNTAIN
    Downhill ski events & conditions: https://www.blackmt.com/events
  • Community Resource: JACKSON SKI TOURING
    Info and Trail report: https://www.jacksonxc.org/trail-report/
    • Register now for Programs: 603-383-9355

Meditations on Kingdom of God: pearls, yeast, abundant nets, hidden treasure

By jacksonnhccPosted on Posted in Adult, Home, Weekly Meditations, WorshipTagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Small and precious things found in sacred stories,
with the power to grow exponentially:
yeast, fish, pearls, seeds, and other treasures in the kingdom of God.

Meditations on Kingdom of God

God is the Possessor of the Kingdom: whoever lays his head before Him, to him he gives a hundred kingdoms without the terrestrial world; but the inward savour of a single prostration before God will be more sweet to you than a hundred empires: then you will cry in humble entreaty, “I desire not kingdoms: commit unto me the kingdom of that prostration.— Rumi

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate. — John Lennon

Meditations on Pearls

After all,” Anne had said to Marilla once, “I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography. — Federico Fellini

Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. — Shakespeare

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls. — Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Meditations on Fish

The act of fishing – for fish, dreams or whatever magic is available – is enough. ― Fennel Hudson, Traditional Angling – Fennel’s Journal – No. 6

Teach all men to fish, but first teach all men to be fair. Take less, give more. Give more of yourself, take less from the world. Nobody owes you anything, you owe the world everything. ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun

The trout is still with me, as are my memories. The future is somewhere between these two forces, but it lives in mystery. The river records to trail behind or before me, and covers everything as it flows. This mountain and this river are old … ― Daniel J. Rice, The Unpeopled Season

“He can’t have gone,” he said “Christ know he can’t have gone. He’s making a turn. Maybe he has been hooked before and he remembers something of it.” Then he felt the gentle touch on the line and he was happy.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

Meditations on Yeast

All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold. — W.E. B. DuBois

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas. — Henry Ford

You can’t just leave out one part; the bread won’t rise if the yeast isn’t there. — Holly Near

I Ask My Grandmother If We Can Make Lahmajoun
— Gregory Djanikian

Sure, she says, why not,
we buy the ground lamb from the market
we buy parsley, fresh tomatoes, garlic
we cut, press, dice, mix

make the yeasty dough
the night before, kneading it
until our knuckles feel the hardness
of river beds or rocks in the desert

we tell Tante Lola to come
with her rolling pins we tell
Zaven and Maroush, Hagop and Arpiné
to bring their baking sheets

we sprinkle the flour on the kitchen table
and it is snowing on Ararat
we sprinkle the flour and the memory
of winter is in our eyes

we roll the dough out
into small circles
pale moons over
every empty village

Kevork is standing on a chair
and singing
O my Armenian girl
my spirit longs to be nearer

Nevrig is warming the oven
and a dry desert breeze
is skimming over the rooftops
toward the sea

we are spreading the lahma
on the ajoun with our fingers
whispering into it the histories
of those who have none

we are baking them
under the heat of the sun
the dough crispening
so thin and delicate

you would swear
it is valuable parchment
we are taking out
and rolling up in our hands

and eating and tasting again
everything that has already
been written
into the body.

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