Butler Women of Wisdom Book Club

“PEOPLE DON’T COME INTO OUR LIVES BY ACCIDENT”  (LISA WINGATE, BEFORE WE WERE YOURS, P 913) As we approach October and the upcoming fifteen-year anniversary of our book club, I can’t help but ponder the truth of the above quote. I don’t believe the Butler Women of Wisdom are connected by accident. Although through the years, we have lost members and added new members, the vitality of our group, I’ve observed, is inspired by change - new voices adding more substance to our own. We are all unified, however, in seeking a higher level of ourselves, finding enlightenment through the characters in our books and most of all through each other. Our meetings go beyond the books we read and into the most important subjects of our gatherings, simply sharing our lives with one another. While the club has evolved (I was 44 years old when we started!), we have experienced children graduate, go off to college, more graduations, weddings, the birth of grandchildren, new jobs, new ho...

Volume 2, Issue 1 - January 2019 BUTLER WOMEN OF WISDOM SEMI-ANNUAL NEWSLETTER By Tammy C. Smith Introduction Time is flying by, everyone! We now begin another year of reading as a group, Butler Women of Wisdom, and as the family we have grown to be. It has been fourteen years since we read our first book. Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees was the start of our journey through what amounts now to just over 150 books! Quite a feat, I must say, both for the duration of our commitment to reading and, most of all, for our commitment to each other. The Best Book Club Christmas Party Ever! No one can deny the fun we all had at this year’s book club Christmas party which took place on Saturday, December 8! Thanks to senior member Lori and her husband Doug, we enjoyed their hospitality in their beautiful home. The party went on well into the evening, and for some of us, well into the night as there was so much fun and laughter afoot.  Charades were played (re...