FROM THE DESK OF THE PRESIDENT:
Deadlines, dum, dum, dum…
The very word: “deadlines” brings a conjuring of stress for some and others, well, it is just another goal to get past. When we place a deadline on something, we hope that it will be followed and given credence to. Deadlines are rarely arbitrary and mean a great deal to those that impose them for reasons unknown to those of us asked to obey, respect, and adhere to.
Yet, when was the last time you set a deadline, or forgot a deadline, or perhaps even cheated on one set for yourself? I think we have all done this in one way or another, but I also think we must strive to follow the deadlines of our own making and those given to us as best we can, in fact: we must choose to deadlines as rigidly as personally possible.
When we set a deadline for ourselves, there is often a reason that it, (whatever it is, must be done by a certain time). For instance, if we are celebrating a Birthday for our spouse and serving their favorite cake, we do not wait until we take the ice cream out of the freezer to start to bake the cake. No, baking that cake, and frosting it, should have been done earlier in the day. In the same fashion, we would not start to put our yearly taxes together the morning of our 10 am appointment.
Deadlines are an important part of being a human being, we learn early on when our homework is due for school, so we set that ethic up in ourselves from childhood. Yet we sometimes push deadlines out without realizing the consequences and butterfly effect we may be creating. This is where planning better comes into action but planning for something does not mean you are going to follow that plan unless you take it seriously.
When we follow a deadline set by someone else, we show respect and we ourselves have a sense of relief. Deadlines are important for so many reasons, if you are registering for something such as a conference, we know that if you meet the deadline you will be there, and we count you in. If you miss the deadline, everyone involved in the planning of the conference must re-do what is in place to make room for you because you missed the deadline…hence: the butterfly effect.
Deadlines are important!
Now, some of you may be reading this and thinking: “She is speaking about me”. Truthfully, I am speaking about many of us, including myself. We all have set deadlines and had someone miss one and try to squeeze in and we ourselves have reciprocally done the same to another on some random occasion.
My attempt here is to bring some awareness to the issue of deadlines, they are important, they should be kept to and I like to think of them as part of the Golden Rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Let us strive to keep to the deadlines as much as we can, they are important to someone somewhere and important to how we do our business and especially important to how we are viewed by others.
Oops, look at the time, I had better get this Quick Byte to Vicki, I have a deadline to keep!
Luv, Pam
Editor's Note: You made it with time to spare!
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CFWC California Young Musician Competition
Submission Deadline March 1, 2021
Anna Dinter, Chair
3375 Shepherd Drive, Lompoc, CA. 93436
805-733-0307 (Home) 805-588-6972 (Cell)
“I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.” ― Billy Joel
During these times of social distancing and isolation, it is good to remember the many benefits of music. How many of us travel little these days but find ourselves turning up the radio in our cars or pumping up the music on our multiple devices to feel the soothing relief of rhythm and song?
Music is the universal healer. Studies have shown the many benefits of music tracing back to the early years of civilization. In 2009 archeologists excavated a cave in southern Germany uncovering a flute carved from a vulture’s wing bone. This artifact is the oldest known musical instrument on earth. This indicated that people have been making music for over 40,000 years. Although we can’t be sure when humans began listening to or making music, scientists do know something about why we do. Listening to music benefits us individually and collectively. Research tells us music has the power to improve our physical, mental and emotional health. READ MORE in Word
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SUNSHINE AND SHADOWS
We are sad to announce the death of Sharon Hooper to our CFWC membership. Sharon served as the Marina District President between 2006 – 2008, served as the CFWC Area C Vice President, the CFWC Recording Secretary, the CFWC Corresponding Secretary, and the CFWC Nominating Committee Chair. Sharon was a Federation Junior and General Member, she served in so many capacities as a club member, most recently as the Torrance Woman’s Club President. We shall miss you Sharon.
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MARCH MADNESS WORKSHOP SERIES
We are proud to announce the March Madness Workshop Series for our Federation membership! 10 one-hour workshops open for Registration beginning February 1, 2021. Contact:
See the flier Attached for details on these hour long Workshops and we hope to see you there. These will be a lot of fun for all of us and bring us closer together via Zoom until we can meet again in-person.
Registration for each Workshop will close 7 days prior to the presentation, so get your requests in early.
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CALLING ALL CFWC MEMBERS!
The CALL for the February 2021 CFWC Executive Bord Meeting has been distributed to the Board members. This series of Zoom Meetings is being held between February 10 – 27, a total of 14 meetings total that includes 1 General Session Meeting of the CFWC Executive Board where any member of the California Federation is invited to attend. If you would like to attend the Friday, February 26, 2021 Meeting please contact Debbie Pietraszko, CFWC Zoom and Video Chair and ask for an Invitation. This meeting requires a pre-registration, more information can be found in the CALL attached in this Quick Byte.
Debbie’s email is:
Debpie74@yahoo.com
We hope to see you there. As a member of GFWC California we invite you to see for yourselves how the State Federation is working for each Member, each Club, each District, and each Area!
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MONTHLY OPEN HOUSES ON ZOOM
Scheduled during “Happy Hour”, I do hope you will join us for 5 – 7 pm on Tuesday, February 16, 2021 to share with friends, have a laugh and smile! Bring a drink if you want, I am sure others will and let us just celebrate knowing that we each belong to such a fabulous group of volunteers. On the 16th of every month in 2021, until we are able as an entire State to meet in person, we will hold our Open Houses for any member wanting to attend!
This is a time to reach out and be with one another, albeit electronically. Remember we can only hold up to 300 of you, so registration is on a first-come, first-serve basis. Invites will be sent bi-weekly in the order they are received.
For your invitation, just send me your name and email address with the date or dates you want to attend. I can be reached at:
Reservations must be requested by Wednesday, January 13, 2021.
The only business is monkey business for these get-togethers; see you there.
Luv, Pam
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UPDATES for Photography and Creative Writing Contests
Love, from Pam Ament and Olma O’Neill
ATTENTION: While GFWC did not host a 2020 Photography and Writing Contest, CFWC did host these contests at the State level and the 2019 Winners were announced. In previous mailings, and in the latest Quick Bytes January Hot Topic eNewsletter, we mistakenly indicated that we are accepting entries for both 2019 AND 2020. We need to clarify - CFWC already has the 2019 Winners; WE ARE ONLY ACCEPTING PHOTOGRAPHY AND WRITING ENTRIES DATED BETWEEN JANUARY 1 - DECEMBER 31, 2020. We apologize for any confusion and look forward to receiving your entries.
Click Here for complete packet regarding Photography & Creative Writing including GFWC information
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From Sonja Hults, CFWC Communications Committee Chair
Katherine George Chu recently led the Los Cerritos District Virtual Arts Festival. She kindly put together a step by step YouTube video on how she put the program together, her agenda they used, and the in person GFWC Pineapple craft that they all did together.
You can find the video either on YouTube search
for Katherine George Chu or you can go to GFWC California Federation of Woman's
Club Facebook Page and watch it from the post there.
This is just FANTASTIC...... Thank you, Thank you, Thank you Katherine!
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Itinerary - Diane Lindwall, Chairman
Just a little reminder. Please send me an Itinerary Request form when you have a State Officer or Chairman speak to your club via ZOOM. You will find the form on the CFWC web site under “Forms”. The State officers are interested in knowing who is speaking and for whom. The forms, which I keep and record, can be easily compiled into a report when needed, especially for GFWC. If you have already had a ZOOM speaker, just fill out a form and send it to me. Thanks for your help. My e-mail address is dianelindwall@yahoo.com. I’m looking forward to lots of e-mail comng in.
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❤️CFWC Health and Wellness Program - Myrna Binford, Chairman
February is American Heart Month.
Lyndon B. Johnson declared February National Heart Health Month in 1964, nine years after having a heart attack. Heart Disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. The Heart Truth® is the federally funded-sponsored national education program, created in 2002, that raises awareness about heart disease as the leading cause of death in women.
National Wear Red/ Little Red Dress Day is February 5, 2021 (always the first Friday in February) and also brings greater attention to women’s heart disease and that it is not just men’s disease. Women’s symptoms may differ from men’s symptoms (the proverbial “elephant on the chest”). Some symptoms may include:
1. Discomfort in your chest or back
2. Dizziness, lightheadedness, or break out in a cold sweat, very tired
3. Any discomfort in your upper body – sharp pain that resembles a toothache, earache, pain in the neck, jaw, or shoulder (above the belly button)
4. Indigestion, heartburn, nausea
I think we are familiar with how to keep a heart heathy – heart-healthy diet, increase exercise, maintain a healthy weight, knowing and controlling your heart healthy numbers (keep medications current), quality sleep, no smoking, and reduce stress (very important during the pandemic).
While it may be hard to do community heart healthy work during the pandemic, you can do some things. Follow available webinars for your clubs, start a walking group (social distancing), start a weight lose group, have medical speaker(s) about how to keep the heart healthy, including nutrition.
Remember, your heart is like “the little engine that could”, but only with your help.
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ZOOM WORKSHOPS
You can participate in a Zoom workshop or meeting using many different kinds of devices: computers (PC or Apple), tablets (Android or iPAD), smart phones, non-smart phones and land line phones (as long as they have touchtone). We often ask you to mute yourself during the Zoom session unless you are speaking. Each of these devices can mute the microphone.
How do non-smart phones and land lines participate when they don’t have a camera or internet access? Each Zoom session has a meeting ID and a passcode. There is also a telephone number that you call into (San Jose is usually the closest). You will be prompted to input the meeting ID and then the passcode. And you will be given the instruction that you can mute and unmute yourself by hitting *6.
I will be doing a Zoom workshop in March. There are so many aspects to Zoom, I want to be sure that I am covering what you want to know, not simply what I want to cover. So please let me know what questions you have about Zoom. What do you want to do on Zoom but you don’t know how to do it? I will cover the most asked about items.
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Leadership Minute
You are all busy writing your reports which is wonderful. I have gotten 3 or 4 District reports so far but this isn’t really about reporting. Some of you are checking out what goes in reports. You email or call one of the Officers to find out what goes in your report. That is the correct thing to do. Ask VP Sonya & VP Barbara. At this time VP Barbara may be out of reach because her Mom is very ill so ask President Pam. Believe what the answer that they give you. They have worked a long time to get where they are. Please, if you don’t believe it, or it isn’t the answer you want so you DO NOT go “shopping for the answer” you want.
Why are you wasting time & energy? If President Pam or First President Barbara or Second Vice President Sonya give you an answer accept it & continue on with your report writing or project. They are the ones in the know. It reminds me of kids playing mom & dad against each other. As parents how did you like it? Enough said. Good luck on writing of all your reports. I can’t wait to read them all.
See you all in February at the board meeting.
Always
Dori Kelsey, CFWC Leadership Chair
PS Check QuickDocs for a NEW Leadership Booklet - Qualities & Responsibilities
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MILITARY & VETERANS - Yolanda Petroski , CFWC Chair
Stamps for the Wounded (SFTW) is another project for these pandemic times. Founded in New York in 1942, it quickly spread nationwide as “hobby therapy” for wounded Veterans in over 130 VA facilities. Simply trim cancelled stamps leaving at least a quarter inch around the stamp and mail to: VP John Hotchner, Stamps for the Wounded, P.O. Box 1125, Falls Church, VA 22041-0125 or Stamps for the Wounded, P.O. Box 297, Dunn Loring, VA 22027-0297. Check out their website www.StampsfortheWounded.org for their FAQ and brochure. Many thanks to my predecessor and current 2nd VP Sonya Matthies for sharing this information so that it could be shared with you.
With Valentine’s Day coming up this is a good time to remember our active-duty military with Cup of Joe donations. Certificates for coffee are randomly distributed at 11 Green Beans Cafes in the U.S. and over 30 Cafes in 7 countries abroad. The certificates may be redeemed for coffee or used as credit to any other food or beverage available. Whether or not you hear from the recipient, you will receive email acknowledgement of when/where your donation was delivered. Answers to your FAQ are posted on www.cupofjoeforajoe.com. Each cup is $2.50.
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Dori's Leadership Library
These booklets are in .pdf format,
when printed they are ready to assemble into booklets
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Just a thought ......
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
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