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Carpet Installation Schedule
*Becketwood is getting a facelift! To help inform the Members, this blog is simply a letter to the Co-op from Executive Manager, Debbie Richman. 9/24/2019 It’s Finally Here – The Carpet Installation...
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Sharing Becketwood’s Garden Bounty
By Peggy Ryden, Becketwood Member The spring of 2019 marked my second year of gardening at Becketwood. Adjusting from our previous home’s garden to a tiny garden plot was as challenging for me as...
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Four Headlines and a Funeral
By Carol Spearman, Becketwood Member Within one week, I read four disturbing headlines that led me to some distressing conclusions. Two of the headlines were recent and the second and third ones were...
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Eight Years Evolution Of The Martini Salon
By Doug Herron, Becketwood Member A martini is my favorite alcoholic beverage, so eight years ago when walking by the gazebo on a warm afternoon, I was seduced by the sound of ice being shaken in a...
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Three Tips for REAL ID
by Angela Bohmann, Becketwood Member As you may have heard, effective October 1, 2020, a standard Minnesota driver’s license will not be sufficient identification to board a domestic flight in the US....
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Thanksgiving Prayer
By Linda Back McKay, Becketwood Member (d. 9/17/2019) Acrobatic swallows tasting the day and the river itself. The light of my lamp, the people I have held in my arms, the ones yet to hold. All the...
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Trees and Thanksgiving
By Wayne Tellekson, Becketwood Member Becketwood has beautiful trees. According to Jeff, we have 596 of them. But unfortunately this winter 29 are scheduled to be cut down. Almost all of them are...
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Why You Didn’t See Me In October
By Naomi Jackson, Becketwood Member November 2019 People have been inquiring, “Have you been gone? I haven't seen you for awhile.” No, I haven't been gone. Yes, you haven't seen me for a while. Why?...
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A New Look at the Silent Generation
By Iric Nathanson, Becketwood Member It took me a while to realize that the label used to describe my demographic cohort offended me. The group ahead of us, the Greatest Generation, was credited with...
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Tumbleweed Christmas
By Naomi Jackson, Becketwood Member December 2019 In September 1956, when I was two months old, my parents moved to South Dakota to serve two rural Congregational churches. This was a very long ways...
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Dancing with The Mariachis
By Rosemary Rawson, Becketwood Member I’d been on the “Ready to buy” list at Becketwood for almost a year, but the phone call from Maura still came as a bit of a surprise. Was I really ready to leave...
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A Small Group Experience
By Susan DeVries, Kate Tucker, Ruth Halvorson, Mickey Monsen, Cecilia Wilson Holder, and Jan Young, Becketwood Members In the winter of 2019, a working subgroup of the Chapel Committee developed a...
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Denizen of the Becketwood Area
by Stephanie Gordon, Becketwood Member On Thursday, December, 26, 2019, about 2:00 o’clock in the afternoon, I was sitting in our turret, when, outside, something white streaked by the periphery of my...
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Life Matters / Small Groups: Part II
By Susan Devries. Mickey Monsen, Cec Wilson Holder, Ruth Halvorson, Kate Tucker, Jan Young, Becketwood Members This is a continuation of a recent blog entitled “A Small Group Experience.” Please refer...
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For the Love of Trees
By Lorene Liddle, Becketwood Member Recently, while attending a performance at the Guthrie Theater, I noticed the following statement in the program notes: We want to acknowledge that we gather on the...
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March 16, 2020 Recommended Actions in Response to Coronavirus (COVID-19) As you are aware, COVID-19 protocol is a fast moving target which changes daily if not hourly. The Board of Directors voted on...
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Mason City, Iowa
By John Fenn, Becketwood Member It wasn't that long ago that Becketwood members were enjoying "normal" life and things like this excursion to Mason City, Iowa. Led by member Iric Nathanson, the group...
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Planning for an Emergency
by Naomi Jackson, Becketwood Member Don't tell anyone, but I have enough toilet paper for a month. No, I didn’t clear off a shelf in the grocery store. In January I decided to try a new, more...
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When Mercury Was in Retrograde (February 17–March 12, 2020)
By Pat Cummings, Becketwood Member “Mercury is the planet that rules communication, and when it goes retrograde, it’s usually associated with miscommunications, technology issues, anxiety, and travel...
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Water Shortages
By Faith Lindell, Becketwood Member My husband Carl Lindell and I worked about 22 years in Africa, in the countries of Tanzania and Ghana. With recent news now about the coronavirus and the dire...
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