HOUSE NEWS: First Dorothy’s Cafe and more!

Dear friends,
For this week’s schedule at the GCW, click here.
Thanks to everyone who helped out with Friday’s Breakfast Brigade last week, and thanks too to everyone who dropped by to say hello and offer their support for the new semester. We’re excited about seeing old friends and the prospect of bringing new friends into our [...]

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REFLECTIONS: On Van Gogh, seeing the light, loving the broken…

From Kelli’s blog, “What am I doing in Paris?”
I took one last train trip before leaving Paris – to Auvers-sur-Oise, the tiny town about 20 miles from Paris where Vincent Van Gogh lived and painted a few months before finally shooting himself.  I missed the daily train from Paris, so I took the RER (suburban [...]

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HOUSE NEWS: Breakfast Brigade begins this Friday!

Hi folks,
Now that the students are back, we’re starting back up our regular schedule. This week the Breakfast Brigade returns. We have no idea how many volunteers will show up this first time around, so please consider it. We get started at 4:15 baking bread, boiling eggs, and preparing fruit to bring to the labor [...]

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FOOD: Local cheese… delicious!

Some of you have already experienced the incredibly delicious, smooth, spreadable goat cheese that a friend of the house drops off every Tuesday. For more on good local goat cheese, keep reading below, from Kelli’s local living blog…
“I am always happy to find a new source of local food – and I have a great [...]

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HOUSE NEWS: Move-in week complete; planning week begun

Dear friends,
August is always a time of beginnings for us. Last week, August 9-15, was “move-in” week at the GCW. Kelli returned from her travels the week before, new community members Lawrence and Leroy moved in a week ago, Kim came home from the Midwest on Wednesday, and we took in our first guest, Miguel, [...]

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