Monday, May 21
3 pm at the Lap Pool

Join Erika Faith Calig for this unique and fun yoga class. Aqua Yoga allows for greater flexibility and balance with less stress on the joints. Appropriate for beginners as well as more advanced students. Erika Faith Calig is the founder and owner of Cloud Nine Yoga Studios.
Visit Cloudnineyoga.com for more information.

Monday, May 21
2:00pm in Rancho las Uvas

Join author, Naturalist, and Glen Ivy’s Director of Landscaping and Sustainability Patrick Mitchell for interactive conversations and workshops that bring the Santa Ana Mountains to life.  This month, join Patrick to discover the history of the Grizzly Bear in Coldwater Canyon. 

Sunday, May 20
11:30 am & 1:00 pm
The Activities Deck

Kundalini Yoga focuses on rhythmic breathing and releasing the spinal muscles, resulting in better posture, focus and greater relaxation.  Class is appropriate for beginners and experienced students.

Monday, May 14
3 pm at the Lap Pool

Join Erika Faith Calig for this unique and fun yoga class. Aqua Yoga allows for greater flexibility and balance with less stress on the joints. Appropriate for beginners as well as more advanced students. Erika Faith Calig is the founder and owner of Cloud Nine Yoga Studios.
Visit Cloudnineyoga.com for more information.

Sundays
11:30 am & 1:00 pm
The Activities Deck

Kundalini Yoga focuses on rhythmic breathing and releasing the spinal muscles, resulting in better posture, focus and greater relaxation.  Class is appropriate for beginners and experienced students.

Saturday, May 12
Throughout the Day in The Pavilion

Beautiful skin for Mother and Daughter!  Join Glen Ivy’s team of expert skin care specialists for this complimentary skin care event that includes an in-depth skin analysis, exfoliation, and multiple layers of hydration.  This event is complimentary with admission.

Thursday, May 10
12:30pm in Rancho las Uvas

Glen Ivy’s Floral Designer Shannon Ballew guides you through the steps of making your own beautiful floral corsage for Mom!  Take your creation home with you!

Each week we see CeeCee become more comfortable with her surroundings and her new friends and family.  The realities of a “normal” life begin to occur, with all of their complexities and subtleties.  CeeCee is confronted with racism, not once but twice; first, through the attack on Tybee Island and secondly, (and more humorously), when she meets Sapphire.  In reading this section, I couldn’t help but think that CeeCee’s reaction to the racial overtones of both interactions was subdued.  I thought it a reminder that children don’t develop racist tendencies unless they are taught to.

We also see that as CeeCee becomes more relaxed and settled into her new home, the memories of life with her mother begin to emerge.  CeeCee now has the security and support to deal with these issues.  CeeCee has been afraid to think or talk about her mother; I wondered if Oletta’s advice at the start of chapter 16 in someway helped her gain the courage to begin dealing with the pain that she was carrying:

Every time you give in to your fears, you’re lettin’ that man win.  And every time you do that, he gets stronger while you get weaker.  Givin’ in to your fears will rob you blind.  You’ll end up a prisoner to that man for the rest of your life.

CeeCee sees in Oletta a strength and peace that she would like to possess herself.  One of my favorite lines from the book illustrates this:

Deep down I had the feeling that Oletta most likely knew all that was worth knowing, not in book-learning ways, but in the ways that really mattered, ways that let you hum songs during the day and sleep peacefully at night.

Wouldn’t we all like to have enough peace to allow us to hum songs during the day and sleep peacefully at night?

I look forward to reading your thoughts on this week’s chapters.

—Seraphina Ashe
Director of Guest Experience Programming
Glen Ivy Hot Springs

Monday, May 7
3 pm at the Lap Pool

Join Erika Faith Calig for this unique and fun yoga class. Aqua Yoga allows for greater flexibility and balance with less stress on the joints. Appropriate for beginners as well as more advanced students. Erika Faith Calig is the founder and owner of Cloud Nine Yoga Studios.
Visit Cloudnineyoga.com for more information.

Monday, May 07
2:00pm in Rancho las Uvas

Join author, Naturalist, and Glen Ivy’s Director of Landscaping and Sustainability Patrick Mitchell for interactive conversations and workshops that bring the Santa Ana Mountains to life.