Meeting For Eating

We had a very nice New Year's Day. We had a Meeting For Eating (read: potluck) at the home of the clerk of our Quaker Meeting (also known as the-other-Quaker-family-with-children). Most of our tiny Meeting was there, plus family; I think there were actually thirteen people! A record. We started with silence - although nothing is very silent with the Lone Star Baby around - then ate and talked. One couple in the Meeting had brought their visiting seven-year-old granddaughter so we had actually four children present, which was lovely. The child whose house it was, our wonderful thirteen-year-old First Day School student, took out some blocks and a magnet set in another room after eating and she and Lone Star Pa and the other children played back there for the most part while the rest of us talked about exciting stuff like alternatives to violence. It was so nice to feel the Meeting around us at the start of the New Year, all together. I love the gathered Meeting.