Revised Dates
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
PALAC . where people and ideas meet S T U D Y D I S C U S S I O N P R O G R A M S S U M M E R / F A L L 2 0 1 9 New leaders and hosts are the life blood of PALAC offers continuing liberal arts PALAC. Please call the office to volunteer. education to adults of the San Gabriel 626 797-2380 Valley. If you enjoy the excitement DATES TO REMEMBER and stimulation of discussing ideas Program Brunch Saturday September 7 in a new learning situation, whatever Fall Retreat Saturday October 26 Annual Meeting Saturday January 25 your educational background, you’re welcome in any of PALAC’s SUMMER SESSION 2019 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ programs. 301 Zucked by Roger McNamee JOIN US PALAC offers additional advantages and If you had told Roger McNamee that he would soon be activities to members. Membership subscription is just $30 devoting himself to stopping Facebook from destroying our per person or $50 per couple per calendar year. Call 626 democracy, he would have howled with laughter. He had 797-2380 for details or mail your registration and check to mentored many tech leaders, but few things had made him prouder than his early service to Mark Zuckerberg. Still a PALAC, 1015 N. Lake #108, Pasadena, CA 91104-4574. large shareholder in Facebook, he had every good reason to stay on the bright side. Until he simply couldn’t. Zucked is REGISTER To register, submit a completed registration McNamee’s intimate reckoning with the catastrophic failure form and a check to the PALAC office. of the head of one of the world’s most powerful companies to Most groups are limited to 13-15 participants. This provides face up to the damage he is doing. ISBN-13: 978-0525561354 a comfortable, intimate atmosphere for discussion. Early Mondays, 2 - 4 p.m., August 19, 26, September 9, 16 registration will help assure you a place in your selected Leader Jane Crane Members $31 Host Steve Crane Non-Members $41 group. If you register close to the time the group begins, please contact the office to verify group openings. Place Pasadena You will receive confirmation of your selected group(s) by ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ email if you have email. 302 Leaders: Myth and Reality by Stanley Get your registration form in ASAP. Please! Once again we McChrystal will use a lottery system to allow those living outside Leaders is a discussion of what makes leaders. It covers such Pasadena a chance to get in their chosen groups. For those interesting people as Coco Chanel, Walt Disney, Leonard discussion groups and safaris that are over-subscribed, the Bernstein andREVISED Harriet Tubman. This is a very different view office will hold a lottery one week after a designated “outlier” of leadership. ISBN-13: 978-0525534372 receives her program. Be sure to get your registration form to Mondays 7 - 9 p.m., July 1, 8, 15, 22 Leader Jane Crane Members $32 the office before the lottery! And don’t forget, dues-paying Host Non-Members Steve Crane $42 members receive priority. Call the office if you are unsure if DATES you have paid your 2019 dues. Place Pasadena We will order books three weeks before each group begins. If you plan to drop a group, please let us know before then, or we will not be able to refund you for the cost of the book. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 303 Merchants of Truth by Jill Abramson 307 Make Room for Rumi; The Rumi The former executive editor of the New York Times shares Collection edited by Kamir Helminski the current state of the news business by tracking two legacy Jelaluddin Rumi (1207 – 1273) was a master of the Sufi publications, the New York Times and the Washington Post , tradition, the mystical branch of Islam. On one level, his and two upstart companies, BuzzFeed and VICE, as they poems explore the joy and anguish that emerge from his navigate economic burdens, the new technology, and the intimate friendships, married life, and duties as a religious constant demands of maintaining their audiences in a leader. At the same time, Rumi moves beyond the concerns tumultuous world. ISBN-13: 978-1501123207 of orthodox religion to awaken us to the possibility of a direct Tuesdays 2 – 4 p.m., July 16, 23, 30, August 6, 13, 20 and intimate relationship with the Divine. ISBN-13: 978- Leader Carla Barnes Members $24 1590302514 Host Fran Blackwell Non-Members $34 Thursdays 2 – 4 p.m., August 8, 15, 22, 29 Place Pasadena Leader Stanley Oropesa Members $27 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Host Bill Butler Non-Members $37 304 Wanderlust : A History of Walking by Place Altadena Rebecca Solnit ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This esteemed essayist shares her findings about walking’s 308 Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett earliest anatomical evolution through to today’s perils of Welcome to Terry Pratchett's Discworld. This is a story about walking after dark, with brilliant chapters in between focused magic and where it goes and perhaps more importantly where on the first romantic nature writers, pilgrimages, parades and it comes from and why, although it doesn’t pretend to answer more. If you’re unfamiliar with the writer, join us in all or any of these questions. It may, however, help to explain discovering her genius as a researcher and provocateur. why Gandalf never got married and why Merlin was a man. ISBN-13: 978-0140286014 Because this is also a story about sex. ISBN-13: 978- Tuesdays 2 – 4 p.m., July 2, 9, 16, 23 0060855901 Leaders Linda Centell, Sandra Browne Members $25 Thursday 2 – 4 p.m., August 1 Host Sandra Browne Non-Members $35 Leader Gay Bruveris Members $26 Place Pasadena Host Gay Bruveris Non-Members $36 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Place Pasadena 305 War of the Worldviews by Deepak ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Chopra and Leonard Mlondinow 309 A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry After a contentious debate at Cal Tech over the role of This novel interweaves the lives of individuals and families spirituality in science, the physicist Leonard Mlodinow (co- from various castes in 1975 India, capturing all the cruelty and author of two books with Stephen Hawking) and Deepak corruption, dignity and heroism, of India in an unnamed city Chopra, representing Eastern mystical traditions, challenge by the sea. The government has just declared a State of each other in a series of essays over how best to understand Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers – a spirited the cosmos, evolution, the brain, God, and what makes us widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, human. ISBN-13: 0307886880 and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native Tuesdays 7 – 9 p.m., August 6, 13, 20, 27 village – will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped Leader Stanley Oropesa Members $27 apartment and an uncertain future. ISBN-13: 1400030651 Host Deborah Fox Non-Members $37 Thursdays 7 – 9 p.m., July 11, 18, 25. August 1, 8 Leader Marie Slonski Members $30 Place South Pasadena ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Host Sharon Larman Non-Members $40 Place Altadena 306 Advice Not Given by Mark Epstein ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Twenty-five hundred years ago in Northern India, Siddhartha Gautama (later known as the Buddha) made an audacious 310 & 311 Laemmle Theatre Groups claim – that each of us can end our own suffering in this The Laemmle Theatre always has some interesting films lifetime. And he set down eight practices to accomplish this. showing. With your input we’ll choose the best, meet for an The Buddha’s eight-fold path became the heart of life practice afternoon matinee, stroll to a nearby restaurant for a drink, for millions of people. In Advice Not Given Mark Epstein, a snack and a discussion of the movie. Several days ahead of psychotherapist and long-time Buddhist practitioner, time, your leader will send you instructions about where and discussed the role of mindfulness and meditation as parts of when to meet. Drink, food and movie ticket not included. his therapeutic tools. ISBN-13: 978-0399564345 310 Wednesday afternoons, July 10, 24, August 7, 21 Wednesdays, 2 – 4 p.m., July 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 311 Thursday afternoons, July 11, 25, August 8, 22 Wed. Leader Carol Criqui Members $10 Leader Bill Butler Members $30 Host Susan Trauger Non-Members $40 Thu. Leader Audrey Vaughan Non-Members $15 Place Altadena Place Laemmle Theatre, 673 E. Colorado Bl., Pasadena SUMMER SAFARIS FALL SESSION 2019 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________