Update on Lakewold Gardens
Lakewood Rotary Key
Paula Olson
The meeting started off normally at 12:30 pm with President Tom noting that we are celebrating 70 years as Lakewood Rotary. He said that we are building more than a legacy; we are building community, generosity, and vision for the future. Then he called on Steve Saalfeld to give the invocation. Steve gave the longest invocation in LR history, talking about our basic wants, like a clean floor, better action in the bedroom, big biceps, stuff like that. He said that wants have drawbacks too, like slipping on a clean floor, being called on the lift heavy stuff with big biceps (not sure what the drawback was to action in the bedroom). So, we should focus on gratitude; being grateful for what we have. Steve threw in the results of a study that focused on women because apparently men don’t do what the study studied. Or men are just never grateful. He called on us to think of three things we were grateful for in a minute of silence. I’m not sure I got all that right as it’s not cool to take notes during an invocation partly because they last only a minute or two, not ten, and partly because I’d have to sit down to do it, which is decidedly not cool. But it was a great invocation.
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