Comments on: Sixty for Supper

By: nina

nina — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:04:48 +0000

Yes I'm looking forward to the next 10 years too and I'll be back in Hebron and East Jerusalem for 3 months every one of them while my legs will still take those steep hills..I've became especiallty engaged with the women of Sabeel and the women of Sheik Jarrah.The later are always threatened by house demolition and land loss by settlers, 4 families have already had their houses demolished and mostly live in tents.Also to the mothers always living under threat and arrest of their children in the old city of Hebron.Somehow I would like to form friendship groups of women who would support them to find justice.Maybe meal gatherings would be a start. Nina

By: Maylanne Maybee

Maylanne Maybee — Thu, 06 May 2010 22:58:55 +0000

Thanks NIna – great to hear from you. I appreciate the invitation to regard meals as a time for sharing love, reconciliation, repentance and forgiveness… Your stint with the EPT in Hebron sounds amazing. I look forward to the next ten years and more! Maylanne.

By: Nina Chiba

Nina Chiba — Thu, 06 May 2010 18:31:05 +0000

Maylanne,I only just got to read this and I really enjoyed this celebration of your 60th year.What a wonderful way to keep up with well loved friends but also to demonstrate reconciliation.Having just come back from time on the Ecumenical Peacemaking team in Hebron(Al Khalel) and leaving behind dear friends both those living under such great oppression and occupation and those opposing it that even without such a special birthday I/we should have such meal gatherings around family tables to spread more love, reconciliation,repentance and forgiveness.I hope I am still around to read about what you do on the 10th year of your second life since I've already passed those milestones. Nina

By: Karen Pidcock

Karen Pidcock — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:02:38 +0000

So glad you wrote such a 60 year old memoir of this jubilee year. Now, if you'd come to Kaslo again, you'd be our dinner guest…such a pleasure it would be to welcome you. How good that you've lived long enough, & stopped working long enough to discover the joys of dinner parties prepared at your own table in your own home! And, such an inspiration indeed "Julia & Julie", which I so enjoyed…continuing the spirit of Babette's Feast…we participate in the kingdom among us at our table feasts!
Karen Rinehart Pidcock

By: Sue DeGrandis

Sue DeGrandis — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:13:59 +0000

Thanks for sharing this lovely piece Maylanne and Congratulations on your 60th celebrations last year and may the next 20 be the best years of your life.
Your participation and contributions to our Book Club member at Shaftesbury have been invaluable
Sue DeGrandis

By: Sue

Sue — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:45:24 +0000

Thank you for inspiring and reminding us of what is truly important in life. Happy Birthday!

By: Leslie Anne

Leslie Anne — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:16:09 +0000

A most wonderful and unique account of a birthday! My very best wishes to a very young sixty year old.
Leslie Anne