Helpful note to retired people.

[rivka]

(a.k.a., "Why we left the first planning meeting for our church caring circle more than an hour early.")

1. If you are planning an event which you expect working people to attend, "Thursday at 6:45pm for coffee and dessert" does not show much consideration for their likely schedules.

2. If your event is important enough, some working people may plan to attend it first and eat dinner afterward. If so, they will probably be chagrined if you hand them a structured agenda extending to 9pm. Especially if the advance information they were given made it sound like a brief discussion over cookies.

Comments

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

That's a given, I think. Rivka's a Unitarian Universalist, and inclusion is essential to UU. Failing to think things through is a human failing without sectarian boundaries.