Upcoming Members' Salon Series Starts With Spinning Off Spinoza

Here's an important date for your diary. The next members' salon takes place on Thursday 6th of December at 7.30pm and the evening revolves around the life and times of 17th Century lens grinder and philosopher, Baruch Spinoza. It's worth doing all you can to make it to this salon as it sets up the 5 subsequent salons in our 2013 series...Quite apart from that, Spinoza is a pretty fascinating thinker and you won't want to go through this holiday season without his thoughts on joy (and sorrow) very much on your mind. To find out more about becoming a member of wwp and attending our monthly salons please visit our website.

Remembering Margaret 'Magee' Bremner (Wallace)

Our thoughts go out at this time to wwp members Wendy and Heather, and their sister Val, who lost their 'big' sister, Magee, on Saturday, November 17. Though we never met Magee personally, she was very much part of our collective wwp story: brought vividly to life by Wendy, Heather and Val when they participated in a book and film club weekend up at the Nurtury which Magee had hoped to attend along with them; exchanging ideas with us about a scrap-booking weekend that Magee was keen to put on at the Nurtury. We have been so moved by the sisters' love for and care of Magee during the past half year, and we send our deepest condolences to them and their family.

Day 133: We're Home...22,000km Round Trip!

We've been just a tad slack about our blogging of late...(ie. we're really late)...and we'll be filling in some of those gaps in the weeks to come - especially as concerns the four fabulous salons that we ran in the Toronto area during the last week of our road trip. But for now, we just wanted to say a BIG BIG thank you to Pat and Sue, who kept the home fires burning while we were away - it was great to see them the other evening, and catch up with all the news from the hood. We also want to express our deepest gratitude to all those who participated in the road-show experience - whether as much appreciated ports of call along the way, or as armchair fellow-travelers following our adventures on the blog. It was great journeying with ALL of you!

Now that we are back, and Carmella is winterized and all parked up until the next road-trip adventure beckons, we have turned our attention to getting the 2012/2013 Montreal salon season organized. We are putting on 6 salons between now and next May...Our first takes place on Thursday, December 6th, and the rest of the schedule is posted both here on the blog, and also on our website. Details of these upcoming salons will be posted soon...For now, suffice to say that 17th century renegade philosopher Baruch Spinoza will be a thread weaving in and out of the entire series, and that by working his ideas backwards and forwards between different epochs and a diverse range of philosophers, our hope is that we will all emerge with a much better sense of both this highly compelling thinker, and those key concepts with which philosophers have grappled through the ages. As always, the application that these concepts have to our own lives and times is central to how we intend to work the various strands of Spinoza's thinking into our salon programme.

Also in the pipeline...Another 6 week round of the Philosophy Club kicks off in early 2013, and - inspired by our road-trip experience - we'll be continuing to take our salons out of our own living room and into yours. You'll find more information about both of these ventures on our website. We welcome your input regarding all wine women and philosophy developments, so please get in touch with us via the website if you want to share your thoughts and join the conversation.

Day 132: Wellington

Day 131: Bradford, Borden and Barrie

Day 130: Wine Women and Wisdom Salon Evening, Oakville, ON

Days 127 to 129: Women Making Waves Salon Evening, Toronto