Leaving 1203 Springs Forward South of Charlottesville
Mar
15
2:00 PM14:00

Leaving 1203 Springs Forward South of Charlottesville

Come one, come all for springtime conversation and laughter at the Scottsville Library.  Children can bring adults, adults can bring friends, friends can bring neighbors.  Marietta invites everyone to think about what really matters as she hosts an interactive book talk about Leaving 1203.  Isn’t it relationships that count most—relationships with each other, belonging in the natural world, and your connection to yourself?  How about gratitude, humor, generosity, hospitality?  What’s the best way to spend your time?  Why does Marietta grow in gratitude for the lessons in good living she relearned while emptying her beloved-by-four-generations family home?  She will bring a few treasures from 1203 for you to check out—from the Depression, the second world war, and the kitchen, baseball field, and tennis court.  Copies of Leaving 1203 will be available for purchase and personalizing.  Save time to mix and mingle, warm up and tell stories.  Marietta will stay to bid all farewell with a see you soon.

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Marietta Sets PVCC’s Longest Table for Lunch in Plum’s Garden
Apr
24
11:30 AM11:30

Marietta Sets PVCC’s Longest Table for Lunch in Plum’s Garden

  • Piedmont Virginia Community College (map)
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A hilltop in bloom provides a lovely springtime vista for tasty food and good conversation.  Diners will discuss the community college setting and how to assure a sense of home for all involved in the beauty of learning.  Relationships create an awareness of belonging.  Returning to her grandmother Plum’s memorial Garden at the place where she taught for twenty-eight years, Marietta joins President Jean Runyon and college administrative assistants for a celebration of home based on their reading of Leaving 1203.  Why is it vital for everyone in education to make their workplaces feel like home—for themselves, for co-workers, and so importantly for students?  Marietta returns home whenever she tends Plum’s Garden, just as she was at home in her office, in the hallways, and in the classrooms at PVCC.  Participants will read her farewell letter to the college community and hear about Marietta’s unforgettable drive home after she taught her last class in May, 2010.         

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Hooray! A 1203 Party And Fall Colors in Cornish, New Hampshire
Oct
7
1:00 PM13:00
Leaving 1203

Hooray! A 1203 Party And Fall Colors in Cornish, New Hampshire

  • 280 New Hampshire 120 Cornish, NH, 03745 United States (map)
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C’mon and toast October beauty with Marietta and hosts Jan and Robin at their 1804 home. Marietta looks forward to seeing friends old and new and you’re welcome to invite others to join our party – tote along lawn chairs if easy. Gates open at 1 and the jolly, interactive book talk starts at 2—rain or shine, warm or cool.

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Marietta Whips Up 1203 Joy in Her Hometown Charlottesville
Sep
15
10:30 AM10:30

Marietta Whips Up 1203 Joy in Her Hometown Charlottesville

Join Marietta for a festive morning at Charlottesville’s truly welcoming-to-one-and-all Center. She loves telling the story of what she discovered during the three months spent emptying her childhood home beloved by four generations. Leaving 1203 offers a look back at forever lessons the author relearned….

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Soulfully Letting Go and a Storytelling Picnic
Apr
16
5:00 PM17:00
Leaving 1203

Soulfully Letting Go and a Storytelling Picnic

This event will be rescheduled. Look for a new date in the coming months. Peace.

It’s Spring, which means that Marietta returns in flip flops to North Carolina’s lovely Crystal Coast. She will speak at St. Francis by the Sea about saying goodbye to her childhood home—her approach and the ultimate triumph of joy and gratitude.

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