Mirror or Window? What You're Reading, and How It Affects You
Meeting for the week of May 03, 2021 - May 09, 2021
This Meeting at a Glance:
Program: Mirror or Window? What You're Reading, and How It Affects You
Speaker: Yi Shun Lai
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Welcome to the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley!
Here’s a message from our Club President.
Welcome, everyone, to the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley!
In 1949, the Rotary International Board adopted the slogan "Every Rotarian an Example to Youth" as an expression of commitment to children and youth in each community in which Rotary clubs exist. Serving young people has long been an important part of Rotary.
Throughout the month of May, members of Rotary clubs, Rotaract, Interact, and those involved in RYLA and Rotary Youth Exchange celebrate the opportunities Rotary provides to connect, grow through service, develop leadership skills, mentor or be mentored, and have fun.
We have worked really hard over this Rotary year with our Interactors and Rotaractors! We hope you see our passion, our hard work, and feel inspired to be part of the Youth Services Committee. We are all Rotarians and together we can change the world!
Yours in Rotary service,
Raquel D’Garay-Juncal
President, Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley
president@siliconvalleyrotary.com
Guests, we are happy to have you join us this week!
As we see it, our flexibility as an online, asynchronous club allows a special type of service to Rotarians around the world: we make it easier for anyone to strive for and maintain 100% attendance. That keeps you engaged with Rotary's events and ideas, and provides a moment of inspiration for devoting your creativity, talents, and resources to good causes.
You are certainly not required to pay anything in order to attend our meetings. However, if you would like to make a small contribution to our service efforts, you are welcome to do so in our secure Happy Dollars section down the page. This could be what you normally pay at your own club's meetings for lunch, for example. Any amount is welcome, but first and foremost, we're happy you've joined us, and hope you will share with others who we are and what we do to help inspire Service Above Self.
And don't forget to fill out our attendance form so you get an email you can pass on to your club's secretary!
The Four Way Test
The Four-Way Test is a nonpartisan and nonsectarian ethical guide for Rotarians to use for their personal and professional relationships.
Of the things we think, say or do
Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Weekly Funny with Shags.
We believe laughter is an important part of life, and we should all make time to laugh a little. This segment of our meeting is meant to tickle you just enough. These funnies are curated by member Steven "Shags" Shagrin !
Kids Ask the Darndest Things...
My almost 3 year old grandson: "Do trees poop?"
Me: "Of course they do, that’s how we get #2 pencils."
Weekly Inspiration
Every week we start our meetings with a short video highlighting innovation, inspiration, entrepreneurship, or social change.
Sunday of this week is Mothers Day, and this letter from a child to her mom is a reminder of some of the challenges those around us may face.
World of Rotary
Every week we will focus on a particular story that tells of our organization and the work of Rotarians in the world.
Through a Rotarian's Lens
Sometimes a photo can capture an amazing moment. In this section Member Keith Marsh shares his incredible photography!
If you'd like to submit a photo for this section please contact Keith.
When I started taking star trail photos, I really wanted to find an old wind mill to include in the foreground. Most are now gone or are on private farm lands. With the help of a friend, we finally found this one along side the road in Northern Idaho near where I grew up. Notice how the shape of the wind mill mimics the circular pattern around the north star.
Learn Something New
This section is curated by members Shags Shagrin and aims to teach our members and guests something new, fun, and useful! If you have any ideas on a fun trick or skill you'd like to share please contact Shags.
Time for Fun with Bread Dough!
Many of these are topped with sweet spreads or have sweet ingredients, but I'm sure that savory blends can work well, too. It's interesting how creative you can be with dough -- I love the look of the last loaf!
Service Report
Tell us about service you’ve done recently in your community.
Click here to fill out The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley Service Survey
Our Events & Projects
We hold our meetings online, but we do regular service projects and social events in the Silicon Valley! The section is updated every week with our upcoming events. We welcome guests to all of the events and service projects listed here.
Upcoming Events:
All times are Pacific Time! (San Francisco time)
District 5170 Events
All times are Pacific Time! (San Francisco time)
More events coming soon! All events are open to guests, unless otherwise mentioned. Feel free to join us! If you ever have questions, please email inquiries@siliconvalleyrotary.com
Happy Dollars: Do Good by Sharing Something Good
Each week we ask our members to share stories with the club and toss in a few dollars to support our efforts. The primary goal of this section is to provide a fun way of getting to know each fellow members and guests, while giving back to a good cause.
Happy dollars is an opportunity to share something positive that has happened in your life whether it is personal or business. Think of it as your opportunity to brag a little, but also put a little bit into a karma jar. The money donated through happy dollars is put to charitable use, and the message that you leave for happy dollars will be posted in our online meeting the following week for the entire week for folks to see! (Pending that it’s appropriate!)
Here are the happy dollars contributions from last week!
This section is usually updated in the early hours of Saturday, so contributions made over the weekend may not be listed here.
Rory Olsen made a $20 donation.
Went for a walk this morning in beautiful weather. Allis well. Please apply my gift to Polio Plus!
Monique Ziesenhenne made a $20 donation.
Lovely weather and seedlings for my garden are growing strong! TRF-Annual Fund, please
Catherine Alexander made a $25 donation.
I'm glad that so many U.S. families are receiving financial help this month, via COVID Relief.
Program: Mirror or Window? What You're Reading, and How It Affects You
Speaker: Yi Shun Lai
Every week we bring to you a new program on innovation, entrepreneurship, and education, and how those contribute to service to others.
The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley seeks to explore perspectives on service from across the world. The views of the speakers in our programs are their own, and unless stated otherwise, are not necessarily reflective of the views of our eClub nor Rotary International.
If you have an idea for a cool speaker, please feel free to reach out to them directly or submit THIS FORM so our Program Committee can contact them!
This week's speaker, Yi Shun Lai, is the author of Pin-Ups, a memoir; and Not a Self-Help Book: The Misadventures of Marty Wu, a novel. She was an editor at Tahoma Literary Review for six years and is currently featured editor at Undomesticated, a web magazine for, by, and about women living boldly in the world. She teaches in the MFA programs at Southern New Hampshire and Bay Path Universities and is a columnist for The Writer magazine, and works in diversity and inclusion for the media outlet CanIPlayThat.com. She lives in Southern California.
Lai's latest book, Pin-Ups, is an exploration of her long, complicated relationship with outdoor sports, and what that's taught her about life as a woman of color in the United States. Her goals with the book are two-fold: first, to get people pointing at the lack of people of color and marginalized demographics in the outdoors and other spaces; and second, to encourage people to pursue reading as a way to get to know perspectives they may not have considered before. This presentation will illuminate the ways in which reading more broadly can help us to better our inclusivity efforts--and broaden our perspectives as a result.
Members and guests, please welcome Yi Shun Lai!
Upcoming Program Recording Schedule
All of our guest speakers and programs are recorded live online over Zoom video conference. We welcome members and guests to join us in one of these upcoming recordings. Recordings are approximately 30 minutes long and are subject to change without notice.
Our online video conference room link for these recordings is always http://zoom.siliconvalleyrotary.com/. You are welcome to join us! Please note the timezone listed for all recordings is US Pacific Time (San Francisco, California, USA).
If you can’t join the live recording, please send your questions for an upcoming speaker to programs@siliconvalleyrotary.com.
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