CCA Vittle Moots Hosted by Robyn

Invitation from Robyn Burlew (please sign up for places and foods by leaving comments below):

I would like to invite CCA community adults to a series of Vittle Moots in my home over the next few months. I’m hoping that a combination of staff and parents will come each evening.  To make things simple, I’m planning the same fairly simple menu structure for each Moot.  Please sign up for what you’d like to bring.  Feel free to bring a bottle of wine to share.  I will fill in the menu as needed after others sign up. We will gather between 5:30 and 6:00 and sit down to eat at 6:00.  I’m looking forward to some evenings of great food and conversation!  Please give me a call if you have any questions (991-5914).

February 11 (Bring enough to serve 14)  FULL

[Note: Several returning participants on this list are happy to make room for newcomers.]

  • Soup  #1: Christine and Troy Walter with kielbasa, tortellini and kale soup
  • Soup #2: Jay and Valerie McClymont
  • Bread and olives: Jesse and Elizabeth Hake
  • Salad or fruit: Will and Dana Kenny with salad and lambic framboise
  • Cheeses: Jon and Karil Yawger with cheese and crackers
  • Beverages #1: Jeff and Liz Van Bastelaar
  • Beverages #2: David Kemper
  • Dessert: Rick and Marina Allen with awesome cake

Place your RSVP in the comment section below, and the editors will move the information into the post.

Former attendees from this year would be happy to share their experiences: Rick and Marina Allen, Robyn and Emily Burlew, Zach Cureton, Grant and Emily Durrell, Jesse and Elizabeth Hake, Dan and Rebecca James, David and Julie Kearns, David Kemper, Will and Dana Kenny, Bob and Patty Kobzowicz, Jesse Maurer, Jay and Valerie McClymont, Clem and Kristen Miller, Greg and Alison Mullins, Hallie Stucky, and Jon and Karil Yawger. Also, please feel free to bring topic ideas for our three discussions. Participants spend a few moments before the meal sharing ideas and discussing what would be of general interest. As examples, here are propositions discussed earlier this year:

November:

  • We should amend the electoral system to create a multi-party system and also return to the original Constitutional plan whereby U.S. Senators are selected by the state legislatures.
  • Our culture's ideas and practices of weekends, annual vacations and retirements distort our understanding of work and leisure.
  • What we use to worship God in eternity (songs, books and other memories from this lifetime) will have both believers and non-believers as their creators.

December: High and low cultures need one another to flourish.
January:

  • Sports enthusiasm indicates a fundamental human need for tribalism.
  • Church membership is not biblical.
  • Ron Paul as president would equal gridlock.

To learn more about the original concept that inspire this CCA tradition, see this post.

Jesse Hake Comment by Jesse Hake on November 7, 2011 at 9:37am

Thanks, Robyn. Elizabeth and I enjoyed ourselves very much. I read these passages over the weekend and was reminded of our evening:

The feast is the origin of leisure, and the inward and ever-present meaning of leisure. And because leisure is thus by its nature a celebration, it is more than effortless; it is the direct opposite of effort.
....Now the highest form of affirmation is the festival; among all its characteristics, Karl Kerenyi tells us, is "the union of tranquility, contemplation, and intensity of life."
...The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless; …he refuses to have anything as a gift.We have only to think for a moment how much the Christian understanding of life depends upon the existence of"Grace"; let us recall that the Holy Spirit of God is Himself called a "gift" in a special sense; that the great teachers of Christianity say that the premise of God's justice is his love; that everything gained and everything claimed follows upon something given, and comes after something gratuitous and unearned; that in the beginning there is always a gift—we have only to think of all this for a moment in order to see what a chasm separates the tradition of the Christian West and that other view.

(from Leisure by Josef Pieper)

Christine Walter Comment by Christine Walter on November 9, 2011 at 10:37pm

Troy and I will be there with Kielbasa, Tortellini and Kale soup....

Karil Yawger Comment by Karil Yawger on January 11, 2012 at 4:37pm

Jon and I had such a nice time, we would love to attend again, this time we'll be prompt!  We'll bring cheese and crackers again.  

Karil Yawger Comment by Karil Yawger on January 11, 2012 at 4:38pm

that's for February 11th.

Rick Allen Comment by Rick Allen on January 19, 2012 at 4:24pm
Marina and I would like to join you again for the same reason if it would be okay. If it gets full and somebody else wants in that hasn't gone then PLEASE bump us. We'll bring a dessert. We'll let you know when we figure out what dessert it will be. Thank you!
Dana Sangree Kenny Comment by Dana Sangree Kenny on January 25, 2012 at 11:49am

Will and I would love to come again too!  And like Rick said, if the spots fill up, feel free to bump us off the list.  We'll bring salad and lambic framboise.

 

Rick Allen Comment by Rick Allen on January 25, 2012 at 4:35pm
The name of the dessert we'd like to bring is called "awesome cake". It's a collaborative recipe from Karil, Dana and Marina.
Jeffrey van Bastelaar Comment by Jeffrey van Bastelaar on January 30, 2012 at 2:59pm

Robyn, Liz and I would like to attend dinner on Feb. 11.  We can bring beverages.

David Kemper Comment by David Kemper on January 30, 2012 at 3:24pm

If there's room, I'd like to attend. I can supply adult beverages again.

Jesse Hake Comment by Jesse Hake on January 31, 2012 at 5:38pm

Elizabeth and I would love to attend together as well.

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