Butler Women of Wisdom Book Club

Hi Everyone, What a glorious autumn season we are having here in Western Pennsylvania! If you are struggling to find the motivation to curl up and read a book in the spare moments when the outdoors seems a much more desirable choice, join the club! With the few hours I have in the evenings after work, I want to walk around my sanctuary and nature refuge, the paths at BC3. On my week ends, I want to ride a bike trail and take in the scent of cidery scented apple trees and fresh cut hay or find a fall festival to fill up on kettle corn and taste-test sweet homemade jams or local honey. I have to be part of this wonderful season with every fiber of my being.   I can’t help it; I’m a wandering gypsy at heart. Also, my dosha is vatta and vattas are the earth sign air and need to be in constant motion. So don’t ever feel bad if you find yourself restless and more inclined to be a part of the change that is happening all around you. Take your nose out of the book and exper...

The Madonna of the Pomegranates Hi Everyone, As the summer flies by into the dog days of August, I find myself running to catch up with it, and as usual, here I am once again playing catch up with writing our book club news. Our June and July reads are the topic of this letter: Traveling with Pomegranates by Sue Monk Kidd and The Mill River Recluse a first novel by Darcie Chan.  In attendance at June’s outdoor meeting at the Field House in Cabot were Barb K., Becky, Cheryl, Ginnie, Jody, Lori, and myself. The response to our beloved author Sue Monk Kidd’s book Traveling with Pomegranates did not manifest as I had expected. Given that our club fully embraced three of Kidd’s later novels ( The Mermaid Chair , The Secret Life of Bees , and more recently, her brilliant work The Invention of Wings), it should have been safe to say that Traveling with Pomegranates would have been a winner. Wrong. It was one of the least liked books of the year! A memoir, T...

Hi Everyone! Summer vacation has finally arrived and although my brain is still regenerating depleted cells caused by a very, very long school year, I’ll attempt to provide you with some information about the last three books and meetings. The most exciting book club news is the fact that we read our 100 th book, The Boy Who Met Jesus: Segatashya of Kibeho ! This book about a young boy who received apparitions of Jesus and his mother Mary was one of my picks. Segatashya was born in Rwanda. He was a poor shepherd with no education or understanding of Christianity. The author of Segatashya’s story wrote the book in an effort to spread the messages that Jesus and Mary gave to him. The messages are so important for all of us as they involve our futures, our eternity. If we can just recall each day some of the vital points made by Segatashya when he revealed the messages to the world, and live a more prayerful life, what peace we will find: Jesus says, “Your lives are fil...