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...