Name: Living in a Complaint Free World
Start: 2026-11-11T09:00:00-05:00
Location: St. Edmund's Retreat Center, 1 Enders Island, Mystic, CT 06355

St. Edmund's Retreat Center, 1 Enders Island, Mystic, CT 06355

<h3>“Go from being a person who whines to being a person who shines!” Will Bowen</h3>
Complaining is a common habit, with most of us doing it 10 to 30 times daily. Ready to break free?
This engaging Day of Recollection will equip you with the tools to understand the nature of complaining, learn practical techniques to stop, and ultimately, become a more positive person. You'll gain the knowledge and skills needed to transform yourself into someone who shines!
We invite you to join us for Holy Mass in the Chapel at 9 AM. Check in will begin at 9:45. Coffee, tea and pastries will be available.   Included in this day is a hot lunch. This will be served at 12:30 in the dining hall of the Enders House, an early 20th century arts and crafts style mansion and the oldest structure on the island.

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Living in a Complaint Free World

“Go from being a person who whines to being a person who shines!” Will Bowen
Complaining is a common habit, with most of us...

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Join your neighbors for a delicious community meal prepared and served by TVCCA. This week's menu features BBQ pulled pork with a roll, tater tots, mixed vegetables medley, an applesauce cup, and corn chowder. Meals are free with a $4.00 suggested donation for those 60+ and $18.00 for those under 60 years old, with registration required.

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Join retired UConn professor Gail Macdonald for a compelling talk as part of the Lunch &amp; Learn Series. This presentation highlights the powerful stories and defiance of 19th-century Black abolitionists who risked everything for freedom. Tickets are $7.00 for lunch and the speaker, with payment due on the Tuesday before the event.

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Local author, MJ Soni will be in the library to share her debut novel&nbsp;The Masala Chai Mystery Club.&nbsp;Come and meet the author and take home a signed copy of her book.&nbsp;Manju Soni, pen name MJ Soni, <a href="https://mjsoniauthor.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://mjsoniauthor.com/</a>&nbsp; is the author of short stories and DEFYING APARTHEID, her part-memoir about being a doctor activist in apartheid South Africa.&nbsp;
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Sign up to participate in an ongoing, monthly meeting of the Checkmate Society. Players of all abilities in grades 6 &amp; up will enjoy some fun time in front of the chess board learning how to play and making friends. <a href="https://forms.gle/Ln1KqW2XSHxZS7kP8" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Sign-up HERE</a>.
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<h2>Bank Square Books and The Garde Arts Center present and author talk and signing with Peter King for his book, The Game. &nbsp;Peter will be in conversation with Jeff Benedict.</h2>

TICKETS ARE REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT.
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About the Book
With his signature blend of history, insider reporting, sharp opinion, and vivid anecdote, Peter King offers an extraordinary front-row-seat chronicle of the modern NFL, taking us into the defining moments, teams, controversies, and more.
For 40 years, Peter King’s unmatched access, curiosity, and passion have made him synonymous with the National Football League. He broke countless stories, giving us the human side of the sport and influencing countless reporters. Players trusted him; coaches and owners revealed information to him. He gathered it all into notebooks and columns that kept fans riveted. Now, in The Game, King has brought all his knowledge and insight together in one place to tell the story of the modern NFL as no one else could. Moving from the mid-1980s, when the league went head-to-head with baseball in popularity, to the present, when it dominates every other entertainment in America, King narrates the NFL’s explosive rise from the inside. He puts us in the room with Pete Rozelle, toward the end of the legendary commissioner’s career and life. He takes us on the Madden Cruiser, on a cross-country journey with John Madden. He goes behind the scenes in the Reggie White free-agency saga, when the small-town Green Bay Packers made the canniest offer you’ll ever hear. He gives us Deion Sanders’s philosophy on how to be great on the field and how to work the system off it. He shows us Steve Young, lying in a bed with IVs in each arm after the greatest game of his life on the biggest stage. He shares the bizarre story of how a tanning bed and some well-timed push-ups helped catapult Peyton Manning to the top of the 1998 draft. He reveals Nick Foles’s mastery of a moment no one thought he could be equal to. He brings us inside the worlds of referees, of owners, of NFL drafts. Looking at the future, he fires a warning shot about the greed overtaking the game. Time and again, King was in limousines, on planes, in locker rooms, and on sidelines where players and coaches told him why they did what they did, whom they hated, whom they thought highly of, what they dreamed of achieving. The result is The Game—a portrait of the modern NFL in all its messy glory, from one of the greatest storytellers the sport has ever produced.
About the Author
Peter King wrote for Sports Illustrated from 1989 to 2018, including the weekly multiple-page column "Monday Morning Quarterback." He is the author of five books, including Inside the Helmet. He has been named National Sportswriter of the Year three times. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
About Jeff Benedict
Jeff Benedict is a bestselling author as well as a film and television producer. He is the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Tiger Woods, which was the basis of the Emmy-nominated HBO documentary Tiger, and The Dynasty, the definitive inside story of the New England Patriots under Robert Kraft, Bill Belichick, and Tom Brady, which was a New York Times bestseller and the basis of a ten-part documentary series for Apple TV+, which Benedict executive produced. He is also the author of a bestselling biography of LeBron James.

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