Soul Food Book Club
Nourishing minds and hearts through shared stories.
Past Gatherings
What is the Soul Food Book Club?
Right around Summer Solstice 2024, at a small gathering of friends sharing hearts, an inspiration emerged. What can we evoke to help us get to know each other's deepest essence, what we're all about, from a Soul level?
From there, we sent the following invitation to the people who'd gathered that night, and who blew the spark of inspiration into a small fire:
Each month-ish, we meet at a designated location to share Soul Food, in the form of an important literary or lyrical work.  Perhaps a work of art.  Perhaps a song book or book of poems. Or a single line of poetry.  Select a work that is central to your being, has moved you in some important way.  A work that you want to share.  Make it personal, help the group understand what in you was moved, or changed, or blown apart.  Help us know you more intimately through this work that has moved you so.
The Soul Food Book Club is a gathering that begins with appetizers, a feelings check-in so we see who arrives in our presence.  Then we move to the main course, a work that the month's lead will present.  Then we have dessert, a closing circle of reflection on how this is resonating or disturbing or nurishing or whatever has emerged within.  We potluck nourishing food items for our bodys in time with the Soul Food.
We meet approximately monthly, with open hearts and a hunger for Soul Food, and to learn something of our unique soulful longings.  
And thusly, Soul Food Book Club (not actually a book club as it's commonly thought of), was born.