Looking forward to September 21-24 in La Jolla

Wonderful that Kris has made her home available to us for a date that works for all of us.  Good to see the cats being herded into plane reservations and such.

Now praying for good health for everyone...

2016 Lopez Island

SW7 went to the Northwest for the first time, end of September 2016.

Wonderful weekend on Lopez Island, courtesy of Sharon's friend Anne (Powell?).

2015 South Tahoe

We met at a house on Marla Bay in Zephyr Cove, Glenbrook, Nevada, just east of Stateline NV and South Lake Tahoe CA.

Everyone present except Karen, who is in Nairobi, Kenya.  Anne and Joanne arrived at Sharon's house in Sacramento on Thursday evening and drove up together on Friday morning.

Loie and Barbra drove from Loie's house on Friday morning.  

We all ate at Edgewood Golf Course and then came out to the house.

Jeanne joined us on Saturday afternoon after a bout with passing kidney stones.

We spent a couple of hours Saturday evening remembering past gatherings, then went to online blog to get dates more accurately.  

Common elements of SW7 gatherings:

• good food
• unconditional love
• adventures

Sharon claims title of Most Terrible Bitch over the years.  Reasons for her claim to this title are not clear, but she says there are three reasons:

• Ice - Mexico 
• Complaints over use of technology during our time together (Palm Springs? earlier?)
• Issues over being present when present and sharing (not falling asleep during someone's share),

Now reflecting on aging... again.

Trying to remember where we met in just the last five years:

2015  Tahoe
2014  Joshua Tree
2013  Oxnard
2012  Point Reyes--seeing Loie's new house
2011  missed - mini-gathering in Laguna Beach to plan 2012
2010  Palm Springs
2009  Sea Ranch
2008  Wisconsin at Loie's sister's house

As of 2014... where we've been and when...

Southwest Seven Saga

Our best guess on where we've met in past years... to be confirmed by everybody from hard copy notes and from dates of photos.  Note: corrected by Anne 10/24/14 from notes made at Palm Springs and Harrisonburg.  

Please log in to make corrections to this list and to add photos and memories of various visits--before we lose more memory!

October 2014 – Joshua Tree  (missing: Jeanne, Joanne, and Loie)

October 2013 – Oxnard  (missing: Jeanne caring for her mother)

October 2012 – Point Reyes - visiting Loie's new house

September 2011 - mini at Laguna Beach (just Karen, Sharon, Anne, and Jeanne)

April 30 - May 3, 2010 - Palm Springs

2009 - Sea Ranch, Mendocino Co. (missing Anne, Joanne)

May? 2008 – Wisconsin, Loie’s family house

2007 – A transition year from fall to spring gatherings

October 2006 – Harrisonburg, Virginia, Barbra’s home (missing: Joanne)

October 2005 – Santa Catalina

May 2004 – Kauai, Hawaii

April 2003 – Napa Valley 3, second visit to Gary's house

                                      (missing: Barbra after accident, Joanne)

2002 ???

Spring 2001 – Napa Valley 2, first visit to Gary’s house (Anne missing)

2000 -- ???  Karen’s cabin, Mt. Baldy?

April 1999 - Joanne's house San Pedro (missing: Sharon, Anne) 

                             (Could this be the end?)

1998 - We did not meet.

April 1997 – Santa Fe - 10th anniversary of Southwest Seven (missing Sharon)

1996 – No gathering (transition to spring meeting 1997)

Fall 1995 -- Idylwild

Fall 1994 - Palos Verdes Estates 2 (missing: Loie)

Fall 1993 - Mendocino (sad year) – Gaelic t-shirts from Joanne

Fall 1992 – Napa 1; we ate at Terra Restaurant (missing: Anne)

August 1991 – Telluride, Anne’s house

                   Sharon’s t-shirts: “What part of NO don’t you understand?”

Fall 1990 – Rosarito, Baja California

Fall 1989 – Palos Verdes Estates 1, Sharon’s new house

                             “Sex, Lies, & Videotapes”

1988 – Sedona (missing Loie) “What do you all think of Jesus?”

Fall 1987 - Santa Fe (missing: Anne, Joanne)

October 1986 – “Women in Power” conference of EWC Southwest at Camp Colby and first meetings of Southwest 7 at Sharon's home in Vanderlip Estates

Note: 

Those SW7 members present at July 1986 Fresno conference of EEWC were Anne, Karen, Sharon, Jeanne, Joanne, Barbra (performing).  (not Loie)

Privacy concerns

Don't put any notes or photos on this website that you do not want available to the entire world.

It's on the world-wide web.  The address could be found or guessed by someone.  I don't know a way to make a website that is not accessible to anyone.

The web address is www.southwest7santafe.blogspot.com.

The ID and password to post things are available from Anne.

Also don't add any labels when you post.  If you add "Joshua Tree" as a label, Google might provide that post among the millions of websites that contain the topic "Joshua Tree."

Precedent (after the fact)

SW7 Nation has determined that we need some by-laws and perhaps even a constitution as we continue our plan of taking over changing the world.

By majority vote, we determine that each person's share of the housing cost (if any) should be paid before we gather, when the house is reserved.  

Whoever has reserved the house should let others know each person's share of the cost if all seven attend.  

After determining to the best of our ability if we can attend, each person needs to commit by paying.  Alas, no refunds for last-minute crises.

Airfare, gasoline expenses, and food expenses will be shared (and extensively calculated) except for the following conditions:

• If there are fewer than five people, Barbara will adjust the amount of airfare she asks us to pay.
• If one of us combines air travel to join us with other personal or family visits, we may decide reduce the amount of airfare we ask the group to pay.

Note:  How long can we afford to fly and gather in beautiful spaces?  We have changed from starving graduate students to persons in mid-life with comfortable salaries to retired persons living on a fixed income.

"With close friends and family, we have to be especially careful with money," said Barbra's father.

Persons handling the financial calculations as a gathering ends need to have mathematical skills (at least to 9th-grade level--preferably an MBA).

2014 - Joshua Tree

Karen, Sharon, Barbra and Anne gathered on Oct. 17-20 in Joshua Tree.

SW 4 just doesn't have the same ring to it.

After being up at dawn for a spectacular rosy sky sunrise, we did an early morning hike in Hidden Valley in the national park.

We went on Skype with Jeanne and then listened to our miracle woman, Karen, describe her journey since January 11 of this year.