Make a date with a friend to meet at a Monday Dinner, or come by yourself and make new friends! Either way, you'll get a great meal and a lot more--everyone wins!

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The 41st Annual French Meadows Summer Camp was another great success, this year featuring a wide variety of first-time teachers including Dr. Will Tuttle, Dr. David Ludwig, Sheri DeMaris, David Jackson, Jeanne Beveridge, Julie Ong, Christy Morgan, and Claudia Delman. The day after camp ended, 26 campers from as far away as Germany prolonged their fun by reuniting at the Monday Dinner, turning it into a sellout!

Al Lampell, a student/teacher/counselor of A Course in Miracles®, and a facilitator/mediator with over 15 years of experience, teaches his annual Relationship Seminar September 10-12 at the Presentation Center in Los Gatos; $650/couple or $400/individual, includes lodging, all meals, seminar, and materials. For information, call Al at 408 296-0567 or visit http://conscious-communications.com.

Chef Gary Alinder has started a blog at http://macrochef.wordpress.com. Tune into Gary's views on a variety of subjects including food and health, and leave your comments! He has also posted a recipe archive which includes soups; main dishes; sauces, gravies, and dressings; and desserts and snacks.

Monthly Vegan Potlucks! The Peninsula Veggie Potluck People, a spinoff of the Monday Dinners, sponsor monthly vegan potlucks; for details, visit http://pvpp.org. To host a potluck, call Harold Stephenson at 650 856-1125.

The North Bay Macrobiotic Potluck Group usually meets the first Sunday of each month in Santa Rosa, contact Stephen Starkweather ( ), 707 542-9739, http://www.northbaymacro.org. 

James Holloway, frequent Guest Chef at the Monday Dinners, does personal home cooking in Palo Alto, in macrobiotic and classical styles, call 650 852-9182.

By popular demand, Marin-based cookbook author, lecturer, and macrobiotic food coach Meredith McCarty teaches Saturday cooking classes, 2-4:30 PM, in nearby Menlo Park:

• August 21, Cool Cuisine for Summer
• September 18, Bountiful Beans—The Perfect Protein
• October 16, Italian Cuisine for Cancer Prevention & Recovery
• November 13, Super Soups
• December 11, Staying Healthy through the Holidays
• Healing Cuisine flier (pdf) describing Meredith's monthly cooking classes on the peninsula, September-December 2010.

$55/class or $50/each for two or more. New registration procedure: please send a check made out to Healing Cuisine to Judy Serebrin, 420 Arch St., Redwood City, CA 94062. For more information, call Judy at 415 215-2066 (cell) or 650 364-1659 or For other activities by Meredith including events in Marin, visit http://healingcuisine.com or call 415 272-5525.

For information on macrobiotic activities in the East Bay, contact Macrobiotic Health Counselor Michelle Nemer in El Cerrito, or 510 527-4367.

Macrobiotic Counselor Julie Ong teaches macrobiotic cooking classes and does macrobiotic consultations in San Francisco; visit http://www.everythingmacrobiotics.com or call 415 312-0241.

Speakers receive a gratuity from the audience; please show your support and appreciation with a donation ($5-10 suggested).

On August 9, Al Lampell will speak on Who Do You Think Knows What is Best for You? Hint, It's not You! Each person is comprised of spirit, mind, and body. The spirit is perfect because it is made in God's image. The body's purpose is to communicate with others. The mind, the center of our creation, can be directed by fear or by love. In our pursuit of health, we can spend lots of time and energy on the feeding and caring of the body. This is well and good but the key to health and healing is really in the mind, because the body reflects the state of the mind. Healing is moving our mind from a state of fear to a state of unconditional love.

Al is a teacher of unconditional love and is therefore a teacher of healing the mind, which opens the door to seeing things differently and thus discovering how to bring bliss, peace, and love into our lives. Al is a student/teacher/counselor of A Course in Miracles®, and a facilitator/mediator with over 15 years of experience. He teaches his annual Relationship Seminar September 10-12 at the Presentation Center in Los Gatos; $650/couple or $400/individual, includes lodging, all meals, seminar, and materials. For information, call Al at 408 296-0567 or visit http://conscious-communications.com.

On September 13, Macrobiotic Counselor Julie Ong will speak on The Beauty Diet: Essential Natural Foods for Beauty and Anti-aging. Like most of us, you are probably on the quest for the fountain of youth. In the hopes of reducing fine lines, wrinkles, hyperpigmentation, age spots, and acne scars, you may have tried product after product with no visible results. To make matters worse, most over-the-counter products have harsh chemical ingredients that do more harm than good to the skin. Luckily for you, there are alternative natural remedies right in your own kitchen cabinets or grocery store, which work from the inside out and benefit your health. And you will save money in the long run!

Author of the recently published The Everything® Guide to Macrobiotics, Julie is a certified Natural Chef, Macrobiotic Counselor (a level four graduate of the Kushi Institute), and Spiritual Life Coach. She is passionate about coaching her clients from the wholistic view of macrobiotics, to nurture the self and engage the transformative process of developing one's own intuition and spirituality. Visit her website http://everythingmacrobiotics.com. 

The Community Connection feature appears when an author is inspired enough to produce an interview or profile for publication.

Enjoy these past features on community members by Denise Huajardo Springer, Sky Ann McGrath, and Gerard Lum:

• Simply Paul Schmitt
• Life Really Does Begin at 40! An Interview with Diane Wohler
• Eating Mother's Chicken: Making Choices in Life, An Interview with Gary Alinder
• Plain Miklane? An Interview with Miklane Janner
• Ken Becker on Macrobiotics, Part One
• Ken Becker on Macrobiotics, Part Two
• Passionate About Growing Healthy Food, An Interview with Patricia Becker
• By Having Hope, What Are You Going to Lose? An Interview with Geneva Page and Baron
• You Can Really Fly with It, An Interview with Gerard Lum
• An Evolving Vision of Community, An Interview with Miklane Janner
• Making a Difference Through Cooking, An Interview with Susanne Jensen 

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