June 10, 2012

Garden City Craft Show

 Cranston RI

 

It was delightful to meet up with this old friend at the Garden City Craft Show. She's clearly delighted, too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

July 5, 2008

General Convention of Swedenborgian Churches

Bridgewater State College

Bridgewater MA

 

My lovely wife and I were delighted when we heard that our church's annual national convention was scheduled to be in Massachusetts this year... we haven't attended in well over a decade. So when I got a call from my old friend Katie Shelley Brown (above, in the brown chair) about doing a "mini-course" on Cooperative Play for some stress relief at the convention, I was thrilled.

We ended up with from 6-10 people (several had to leave partway through, and others showed up partway through) in a mostly empty room, and basically I could do anything I wanted. Since it was a smaller group than my usual adult events, I was pleased when they said they were more interested in the more active games. So, from top to bottom the six pictures above show: 1) the tangle of Knots, 2) the letter "R" in Numbers/Letters/Shapes Together, 3) a lot of smirks at the beginning of some partner games, 4&5) before and after close-ups in one of the partner games: Quick Draw!, and 6) some silliness during Who's the Leader?

One other very sweet thing about this event is that I actually know all these people! Some of them since birth; some for all their lives; others for longer or shorter times. Some, I even know their children or their parents! So it was especially wonderful to play games with all these people I know, most of whom I hadn't seen for years.