Monthly messages from your Big Sir & Little Sir

Big Sir Sez,

April 2024
The beauty and excitement of Spring is all around us. Flowers, sunshine,
warmer weather, greenery – a renewal of Nature all around. We live in a
wonderful place with an extraordinary climate and environment. Within a
couple of hours we can be at the beach, in the mountains, at a beautiful
lake, in the farmlands or even in a desert. Astonishing, no wonder people
want to live in the Bay Area.
With all this beauty and opportunity around us, let’s renew our commitment
to have fun, socialize and make new friends in the outdoors. For example,
what a wonderful time to go hiking or walking with others. What a
wonderful time to go fishing – to play golf – to play bocce ball – to play
pickleball. It’s the perfect time for us to continue or return to those
wonderful activities that we so much enjoy or have enjoyed in the past.
Let’s get up and go!
And let’s not go without inviting a friend or acquaintance to go along. Bring
someone new along. They will have fun and love the activity and the
people. The group members will love meeting them, have fun and
undoubtedly encourage them to come again. It’s a win – win situation for
everyone!! Don’t be shy – ask someone along. And don’t forget the
someone could be your significant other. You’ll be surprised how many
new friends you will have if everyone in the group brings someone along.
That is what SIR is all about: Fun, socializing and making new friends for
life! Let’s go out and have fun.

updated on 03/18/2024 by SM.

 

 

Little Sir Sez,

April 2024
 

As many of you have heard and read, one goal or focus of the 2024 BEC and leadership, is to increase participation from the membership in SIR activities.
This can be achieved by members signing up and trying an activity, as some members
Do Not participate in any activities at all!  Or maybe, challenging yourself to add another activity to your calendar. We can’t blame it on the weather any more.

Another goal this year is adding participation from spouses, partners or significant others. There has been discussion of why these individuals are not joining in.
One observation was that, “maybe women won’t participate if there is no other woman participating at that activity “. This maybe, but here is what I have learned from doing a “quick survey “ at a recent activity;
Women will participate if no other women are present, they are, for the most part, independent!
The women surveyed indicated the problem is:
They were NOT informed or invited to the activities .
Some women also indicate they would come to the activity, even if their spouse, partner or significant other wasn’t participating in the activity!

Let’s all do a better job here. Branch 8 has numerous activities, with a large percentage “co-ed”. The time is right for inviting our spouses, partners and significant others to our activities. Make an effort to pass on the information and schedule of the activities. Invite and acknowledge the individuals. The membership and activity will be better for it.

If you have any other thoughts or suggestions on this subject, please contact me.
Enjoy spring
Tom

 

last updated 3/25/2024 by DLS