Resuming in-person meetings

[The Idea Exchange of Phoenix]

Dear Members of the Idea Exchange,

The Idea Exchange began nearly twenty years ago as a monthly gathering

of friends interesting in meaningful conversations of high intellectual

quality, guided by the principles of tolerance and mutual respect.

We always met on the first Thursday of the month at a Phoenix-area

restaurant, at first at the IHOP on Apache Boulevard in Tempe, and then

(after that closed) at the Denny's in Scottsdale.  Although meetings varied

widely, generally there were from 15 to 20 persons present sharing their

ideas in an atmosphere of pleasant comraderie.

The beginning of the pandemic last year of course put a stop to that,

and it was replaced by a weekly Zoom meeting every Sunday night.

These virtual meetings of course opened the disucssions to a much

wider range of participants, since members did not have to be

physically present, but the number of participants has steadily

dwindled.

Now that the worst of the epidemic is over, many people have asked

about resuming the in--person restaurant meetings, for those still living

in the Phoenix area of course.

This message is to gauge local interest in doing this.

If you are indeed interested in resuming the regular, in-person Idea

Exchange meetings, please reply to this message by stating --

-- your interst in doing so

-- those days when you would would be able to meet, and prefer to meet

-- those times that you would prefer to meet (i.e. still a dinner meeting,

from 6 PM on, or perhaps earlier in the day?).

-- suggestions on where (what city? what restaurant?) you might like to meet

However it goes, I hope to continue "seeing" you all soon, either in

person or on the screen

The Idea Exchange of Phoenix

[Korky Day]

I like weekly on-line. Why not keep the Zoom meetings while re-starting the in-person meetings, so people like us aren't left out?

The other way is as you did before--put a computer in the middle of the in-person meeting and include us that way.

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