Cookie time

 We have come to the cookie time of the year. Tomorrow is the Guilford Community Church Annual Christmas Bazaar, and every year Ellen has made cookie platters for it -  and I mean like 40-50 platters, some years over a 1000 cookies! This year the in-person bazaar has been cancelled, but in its place the church created a Bazaar Catalog and people pre-ordered items, including cookie platters. Tomorrow, people will come and pick up their orders. So tonight, we are assembling platters. Ellen and Robin Davis are the cookie-makers and they are here. I came along to help and tonight I cut ribbons. Now Ellen and Robin are tying ribbons on the platters. 

Here are the platters!

The was the catalogue page for the cookie platters

Ellen also donated some  felted Christmas ornaments she made (the acorns, pears and baskets are her's)

Some folks made wreaths

Robin tying ribbons

People's orders are all bagged and ready to be picked up

Our church is like a mini-Amazon warehouse!

What else has happened this week? Earlier today we participated in a Zoom lecture from Swarthmore by Prof. Phil Weinstein on Kafka and Subjectivity. Basically it was a defense of the importance of the liberal arts, especially the humanities, especially literature, in higher education. STEM is fine, but we still need to be teaching about the life of the mind and the emotions, the inner life. 

Wednesday was the CTS Reflections Zoom session; Tuesday was River Singers, etc. One day I met for a half-hour with Margaret Holland, Jerome's daughter. A full week!