Dinner and Divinity - September 11th

This week was a little different from previous times: We had a very international group of friends get together! These are some friends we met during our Year of Service in Haifa, Israel, where we worked along side people from all over the world, as well as other friends from New Jersey who had met each other in Israel as well!

Tonight was shared with Roya from Australia, Nabil from Germany/England, Matine straight from Jamaica on his way back to Seattle, James from NJ but on his way to Russia, Bahiyyah from South Carolina, Juliet who recently arrived from Niger and thrown into the mix was Tanja from Finland/Canada/NJ and Bryan, World Citizen! :-)

It was a lovely evening filled with reminiscing of the "good old days" , discussing all kinds of different and diverse spiritual topics as well as sharing some prayers.

Salad, homemade pizza and baked pasta. Italian night.

Conversing, reflecting.

So lovely to be together again!

Such strange elbows...

:)

Dinner and Divinity - August 21st - Middle Eastern Drumming

This week's gathering was a small and intimate group. For dinner, we ate salad, baked macaroni, a healthy vegetable dish and crab dip and chips. After cleaning up and conversing, we started with some drumming. This week, D&D was attended by Luis Manuel, an accomplished drummer, who teaches drumming workshops all over the State. (You can check out his website here). He led the group in several different Middle Eastern drum patterns. During a Sufi pattern, the type that Whirling Dervishes dance too, I read some mystical writings to accompany the rhythms. The spontaneous collaboration was quite beautiful.

We finished the evening with some more music and interfaith readings, followed by a delicious dessert of peach cobbler / crisp.

Here are just a few photos from the night. See you at our next gathering, September 11th at 7pm!

A Portuguese vegetable salad.

Post dinner conversation.

Luis Manuel. Check out his site and videos here.

Hasta la próxima!