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“Autumn is a second

spring when every leaf is

a flower.” Celebrating - Albert Camus September!

Happy Cat Month

International Enthusiasm Week

September 1–7

Labor Day (U.S.) September 2 September 14th - Tea Party: To jazz up a Satuday, Evangelina from a local church group is coming World Alzheimer’s Day September 21 by to host her monthly tea party! Join us for a spot of tea and a cookie or two while we chat! World Heart Day September 29 September 21st - Community Craft: Let’s kickoff Celebrating August the start of fall with a community craft! We’re Birthdays! inviting the Kyle community into our home to make a fun, autumn-inspired craft with us, all Jerry Krackua ages welcome! September 11th

Frances Smarro September 23st - Library Trip: We’re loading up September 12th and heading over to the Kyle Pubic Library! Whether spending an afternoon exploring the Jean Bales stacks or relaxing with a good book, we’re sure th September 15 to have a great time!

September 2019

The Woman in the Moon Stay Fit at New Haven!

On the 15th day of the eighth month on the Chinese lunar comes the second- grandest festival in all of China: the Mid-Autumn Festival, also Music & Fitness with Savannah known as the Harvest Moon Festival. This year, it falls on AL: Tuesdays @ 10:30am September 13. MC: Mondays @ 11:00am

Worshipping the moon has long been a part Gentle Yoga with Savannah of Chinese culture. One legend states that the AL: Wednesdays @ 10:30am festival began when the Chinese emperors of the MC: Wednesdays @ 11:15am Zhou dynasty worshipped the moon to ensure an abundant harvest the following year. Still another legend tells the story of Chang’e, the Chinese Balloon Volleyball goddess of the moon. AL: Mondays @ 10:00am MC: Tuesdays @ 11:00am Long ago, 10 suns ruled the sky, but they were so powerful that they burned Earth, scorching crops and causing much suffering. The mighty Exercise with Damien archer Hou Yi shot down nine suns and saved September 6th @ 1:45pm Earth. For his triumph, the Western Queen September 20th @ 1:45pm Mother gave Hou Yi a bottle of elixir that granted immortality. Hou Yi liked the idea of immortality, but he wanted to stay at home with his wife Chang’e more. When Hou Yi’s greedy archery student Pang Meng attempted to steal the elixir, Chang’e drank it rather than let Pang Meng As the World Gurns have it. The elixir made Chang’e fly to the moon, On September 20, the Egremont where she has forever remained. It was Hou Yi, Crab Fair will get underway on Chang’e’s husband, who began the tradition of the West Cumbrian coast of worshipping the moon. Children in China are told England. This harvest festival that Chang’e still lives on the moon. They look to was first held in 1267 when the Lord of the Barony the full moon and try to find her shape on it, much of Egremont began the tradition of giving away like we attempt to discern the in the Moon. crab apples to the village serfs. Today, the tradition continues On the night of the full moon, families gather with the Parade of the Apple Cart, where apples together for a merry feast. It is traditional to are thrown to crowds lining Main Street. Over give, receive, and eat mooncakes, those dense, the centuries, there have been many contests sweet pastries filled with red bean or lotus seed held during the fair: horse races, hound dog paste. Cakes are often imprinted with Chinese trials, singing, teacake eating, pipe smoking, characters referencing the holiday and its wrestling, and, of course, gurning. legendary characters. Another common tradition is to light paper lanterns and release them into Gurning, which means “to snarl like a dog, look the night sky. It is also the perfect night to yearn savage, or distort the countenance,” remains for family and friends who live far away, much the highlight of the festival. During the Gurning like Hou Yi’s pining for his beloved wife. World Championships, contestants don a horse collar, or braffin, and compete to see who can pull the ugliest facial expression. September 2019

Monthly Activities… This Month Look Out For…

Wine Tasting! Bible Study Bible study takes place every Wednesday starting at 9:30am with Kinney. September 9th, 2019 Join us every Sunday for We’ll be taking a little trip down to the Three Dudes Worshop with Jim & Lori starting Winery in San Marcos! It’s going to be a lovely at 10:30am. afternoon of great conversation and tasty Texas wine!

Outings Family Dinner & Bingo Night! th September 9 : Wine Tasting September 27th, 2019

September 16th: Lunch Outing Join us for a fun game of BINGO and stay for a family dinner! th September 6 : Library Outing

th September 19 : Lunch Outing Out of the Tiffany Blue Long before those blue boxes from Tiffany & Co. promised jewelry, the store was a Keeping it Social! stationery emporium. It was founded on September 18, Every month we gather together for delicious 1837, by Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. treats and companionship and discuss topics Young in Brooklyn, Connecticut. In 1838, that range from local news to reminiscing the storefront moved to Broadway in Lower about our pasts. Manhattan, and the store shifted its focus to luxury goods like ladies’ silks, satins, and th September 9 : Wine Tasting bonnets. In 1845, Charles Tiffany himself selected the color of robin’s egg blue for its th September 11 : Birthday Party for Jerry! Blue Book, an annual catalog of its handcrafted

th jewels. In 1867, Tiffany’s was recognized at September 12 : Birthday Party for Fran! the Paris World’s Fair for its exquisite silver

th craftsmanship, launching it as an international September 14 : Tea Party brand and esteemed design house. By 1870, Tiffany & Co. had risen to become the September 15th: Birthday Party for Jean! preeminent purveyor of silver, jewelry, and timepieces in America. September 27th: Family Dinner

September 2019

Live Performances By… Into the Wild

Humans have settled 77% of Earth’s surface, so what places are left unexplored? This September, Wilderness Month, we will take a look at some

of the world’s wildest places. Queenie & Turner! Antarctica definitely tops the list of one of the September 5th @ 3:00pm wildest and most remote places on Earth, but who would want to go there? For those interested in cold and inaccessible places, far from the touch Tony on Guitar! of civilization, there is the Kamchatka Peninsula September 19th @ 3:30pm in Russia’s Far East. It is Russia’s land of fire and ice, thanks to its proximity to the Arctic and Arland- The Riverboat its many volcanoes. It harbors an abundance of wildlife, including brown bears, wolves, reindeer, Piano Player! mountain sheep, whales, sea eagles, and the September 17th @ 1:45pm breeding grounds of the spoon-billed sandpiper. The peninsula was off-limits to outsiders until 1990 due to its strategic importance to Russia’s Ed & Beverly! submarine bases. September 11th @ 2:30pm September 25th @ 2:30pm Papua New Guinea also remains one of the world’s least-explored places. Scientists believe that many of the world’s undiscovered plants and Tolkien’s Literary Magic animals live deep within the rugged, inaccessible Those familiar with the work jungles of the country’s interior. Due to a lack of of author J. R. R. Tolkien infrastructure, travel to and around Papua New know that September 22 is Guinea is extremely limited. Day, commemorating the birthday of both Bilbo and For those looking for an otherworldly his nephew . For this reason, experience, there is the barren yet the entire week containing September 22 beautiful Atacama Desert of Chile. is celebrated as Tolkien Week. For those This high mountain desert gets unfamiliar with Tolkien’s fantasy writings, the almost no rainfall. Its 40,000 square words hobbit, , , and Silmarillion miles is covered in salt basins, sand, may have no meaning at all. Tolkien, after all, and lava. In fact, it is so devoid of life that NASA invented all these fantastic words during the uses it to replicate conditions on Mars. It is so far creation of his magical world of Middle Earth. from light pollution and radio interference that it is The development of the world and legend of one of the best places in the world to spy on the Middle Earth grew from Tolkien’s desire to universe, which is why two major observatories manufacture a mythology for England, one have been constructed here. of elves and faeries. Some might say that he saw this through to extraordinary ends, going How much longer will such wild and untouched so far as to invent an entire pantheon of gods corners of Earth exist? No one knows. But there and new languages for his magical races of is still ample time to protect these pristine natural creatures. Bilbo’s adventures with dwarves jewels. It may be as easy as following the old and and Frodo’s saga with the Ring explorer’s mantra: “Take only pictures, leave of Power have become the pinnacle of high only footprints.” fantasy literature.