Upcoming
Winter Sowing Workshop with Donna Foster
Saturday, February 21, 2:00-4:00pm
Join Donna Foster for an afternoon of sharing her new obsession: Winter Sowing — rhymes with growing and no needle and thread involved!
Winter Sowing is starting seeds outside, IN WINTER, without heat mats, grow lights, or the mess and stress of indoor sowing. Winter sowing is best for perennials and cold hardy annuals., but veggies can be winter sown, too! They are started in the comfort of the indoors, then set OUTSIDE to freeze solid and lie dormant until spring weather arrives. Then, these cold hardened seeds will sprout in their cozy jugs when it’s time. It’s hard, but you have to TRUST the process and wait. Once the sprouts reach 2″, they can be divided and transplanted into the garden, with NO hardening off!!
Bring clean gallon jugs, potting soil and seeds if you have them. Want to join but have no supplies? Some supplies and seeds will be available to share. This program has a limited capacity, so register today!
If you’re not able to join and are interested in Winter Sowing, detailed information can be shared. There will also be other opportunities!
Can I Recycle (of Compost) This?
Tuesday, March 3, 6:00-7:00pm
More information coming soon!
Ongoing
Writing Group
1st & 3rd Mondays 6:00-7:30pm
This group meets twice monthly. The first part of the get together focuses on generative writing through prompts, and the second part focuses on kind critique and supportive feedback of writings that members bring in. All writers of any experience level are welcome. If you’re curious, come check it out! Bring a journal or laptop, a warm drink, and your imagination.
Monthly Simplicity Circle
2nd Mondays, 6-7:30pm
A Simplicity Circle is a welcoming space where participants can explore, practice, and enjoy the benefits of voluntary simplicity. Together, we reflect on ways to cultivate a less pressured, more intentional lifestyle. We focus on what truly matters: meaningful relationships, creative expression, a sense of “enough,” and the power of sharing.
This is a place to connect with each other and chat about the things that really matter to us and the steps we’re taking – or planning to take – to make them happen.
Mahatma Gandhi said, “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” Yes, indeed.
The Sharon Health Initiative at Baxter Memorial Library
2nd & 4th Wednesdays, 2-3pm
The mission of the Sharon Health Initiative is to provide personal attention, assessment, advocacy & referral within the healthcare system, especially for our elders who need assistance aging in place. Every 2nd and 4th Wednesday from 2pm to 4pm, feel free to stop by and chat about what the Dena Wilkie, the Community Health Care Coordinator, can do for you! Questions? Email Dena at sharonhealthinitiative@gmail.com or give her a call at (802) 230-8458.
Story Time and Play Group
Thursdays 10:30-11:00
Baxter’s weekly toddler/preschooler story time and play group takes place Thursdays at 10:30am. Let your little one read stories with the librarian and explore the library before it opens to the public. Then, stick around for some play time! During the summer, each child attending Storytime can choose a brand new free book thanks to a Winnie Belle Learned Fund grant made possible by the Vermont Public Library Foundation.
Short Story Club
Anytime
No time for a book club? Baxter Memorial Library’s Short Story Club has your back. No novels. No meetings. Just great short stories.
The January/February selection is “Jeffty Is Five” by Harlan Ellison: “Enjoying myself so much, I grew careless and failed to consider how fragile the relationship between Jeffty’s world and my world really was. There is a reason why the Present begrudges the existence of the Past. I never really understood. Nowhere in the beast books, where survival is shown in battles between claw and fang, tentacle and poison sac, is there recognition of the ferocity the Present always brings to bear on the Past. Nowhere is there a detailed statement of how the Present lies in wait for What-Was, waiting for it to become Now-This-Moment so it can shred it with its merciless jaws.
“Who could know such a thing…at any age…and certainly not at my age…who could understand such a thing?
“I’m trying to exculpate myself. I can’t. It was my fault.”
You can pick up copies of the story at the library, see what others thought of it in the SSC binder, and add your own reflections.
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