Ayn Rand Poly
October 21st, 11am - 6pm

11am - 1pm: We’ll talk about the works of the great Libertarian author Ayn Rand, including Atlas Shrugged (poly version on page two). 1 pm is a pot luck lunch—bring something healthy and delicious to share.

2pm - 4pm: Family Synergy members join us for a connections party — let’s get to know each other through verbal and non verbal communication exercises.

At 4 pm we’ll show the movie Passion of Ayn Rand on our big screen TV. This is her life story and truly an example of Synergy in Cinema. Please note that the Hollywood Regional Branch Library is featuring an Ayn Rand exhibit starting October 14, 2006.

See www.aynrand.org for more info.

Jacuzzi available all day.

LTD All Hallows Eve Celebration
Friday October 27th

7 pm POT LUCK and Sandwich Buffet: Bring a dish big enough for 10. A-F: Cheeses, meats and other tasty things for sandwiches. G-M: Juices or fresh fruit. N-R Salads. S-Z: Desserts and treats. LTD provides good breads and spreads, paper goods, and marshmallows to roast.

Bring your favorite scary story and/or a tape or a CD to dance to.

HOT TUB AVAILABLE ALL EVENING — CLOTHING OPTIONAL. Bring towel and sandals.

8:00pm ALL HALLOWS EVE RITUAL (outside under the stars)... Bring something you want to let go of — a symbol or written note. It will be cleansed in the cauldron's flame...

HALLOWEEN PARTY follows at 9 pm.

Dress as your favorite SF or Fantasy character. You are welcome to do some sort of dramatic or funny presentation appropriate to your costume. Audio equipment available for sound effects — call ahead to plan it with Paul if you have something elaborate in mind.

Scary Story telling in living room by the fire is followed by ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW VIDEO AT MIDNIGHT on our BIG screen TV.

Crash space available to sleep over; call to let us know. We'll do brunch somewhere local the next morning. RSVP to the LTD Hotline 818-886-0069.

Cost: $7.50 non members/$5.00 to members (including members of Family Synergy).

Location is the group home of Terry, Paul, Marcus, Laura, Carl, and Will in Winnetka at 8515 Penfield, West San Fernando Valley.

LTD Winter Holiday Party
Saturday, December 16, 6pm until ???

Latkes (provided by your hostess along with Apple Sauce and Sour Cream), Christmas carols/songs about the Macabees, dreidels and Winter Solstice ritual. We'll light the Hanukkah Menorah--this is the second night. Did we forget a ritual important to you? Tell us and we'll add it! BRING stories/songs/poetry to share, your favorite holiday dish for pot luck supper, and a wrapped science fiction, fantasy or magickal gift (about $10) for GIFT EXCHANGE. Kids bring kid gifts to exchange with each other.

SHARING OUR HOLIDAYS IS PART OF WHAT WEAVES THE BONDS OF FAMILY IN A GROUP LIKE OURS. UNDERSTANDING WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO EACH OF US DURING THIS FESTIVE SEASON AND HOW WE CELEBRATE IT IS A WAY TO GROW CLOSER AND DELIGHT IN OUR DIVERSITY.

Cost $5 for paid members, $7.50 for non members, children free. Location: Penfield Group House (the group home of Terry, Paul, Marcus, Laura, Carl and Will) 8515 Penfield, Winnetka (in the west San Fernando Valley between Roscoe & Parthenia (just north of Chase). Penfield is between Tampa and Winnetka Ave (just East of Winnetka Ave). sandals and towels.

Phone number same as LTD hotline – 818-886-0069.

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What if Ayn Rand had made her
characters as Poly as she was?

Dagny Taggart deeply loved three men in her life–great men who could live up to her greatness. Francisco was her first teen love who she adored with a passion and who shared with her the knowledge that sexualove was something to be gloried in without shame or guilt. Something which it was right for these two free spirited youths (with world changing destinies) to learn from each other.

Francisco loved Dagny his whole life, though he spent many years apart from her pretending to be a playboy for purposes having nothing to do with romance and everything to do with Brains on Strike. She thought her relationship with him was over for many years before her love was again IGNITED with Industrialist Hank Rearden. It was she who helped him realize he had a right to delight in his sexuality and that his choice of her as his Lady was in complete alignment with the other excellent values which made him the Business Man she so respected.

Finally, there was John Galt, the brilliant Inventor of a motor which could gift the world with limitless energy–at the price of respect for the mind which created it. It was to him she finally gave her heart and her body to the exclusion of Hank and Francisco who continued to love her and were compassionately understanding of this Highest choice of the man both of them loved and followed.

A beautiful story... of ENTIRELY NEEDLESS sacrifices by characters who supposedly had learned not to make sacrifices created by an author who knew better!

Dagny Taggart could have found John Galt, realized that Francisco had behaved honorably in all the years they were apart holding his love for her as a sacred fire within him. Since Francisco loved and was deeply committed to John already, a triad between the three of them could have worked out perfectly. When Francisco found her miraculously alive in the Valley, she could have told him all that she felt with complete honesty, letting him know that there was room for both him and John to be her primary partners.

Later, Hank could have been added either as a live-in lover for Dagny or as a beloved nonresidential secondary partner always welcome in their home. No one gets hurt. There was certainly enough of Dagny living, breathing and willing to satisfy the desires of men who had lived mostly with only their fantasies of her to sustain them for many years. The love and respect all three men had for each other would make jealousy unlikely and (if it did come up) something to be dealt with like any other emotional illness rather than something to base one’s life on. Had John and Francisco offered her this option, she might have been so happily engaged in carrying it out that she would have stayed in the Valley her first time there.

Dagny could even have had a child by John and then by each of the others if they wanted one. Additionally, John, Francisco and Hank might want to consider spreading their excellent genetic materials (and their unbridled affections) to other fine Ladies who were available in John’s Gulch...

Think about it; limits on wealth and production were unacceptable, but limits on Love were unexamined and unchallenged. The very people who did not take what the Experts said to be so as a given in their businesses and their political lives had swallowed hook, line and sinker the looting of that most precious aspect of living– romantic Love and Joy.

How many unexamined ass-umptions are you carrying around to mess up your life?

Other Poly Events:

Family Synergy:

SATURDAY OCTOBER 7TH 7:00 P.M. Connections Party – Original poly documentary on DVD – “When Two Won’t Do”

SATURDAY OCTOBER 21ST 7:00 P.M. SENSUAL MASSAGE PARTY

If you have a “What do you do when...?” for publication please E-Mail it to Live_The_Dream2000@yahoo.com or send it to 8515 Penfield Ave. Winnetka, Ca. 91306. We will take it with your solution or brain storm and give it one or more of our own. Let’s have fun with this and learn from each other.

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WHAT EXPERIENCES, BOOK REVIEWS, ETC, CAN YOU SHARE RELATING TO THE POLY LIFESTYLE?
KNOW OF ANY OTHER POLY RELATED EVENTS?
LET US KNOW ABOUT THEM!

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GIVE US YOUR STORIES

We need your stories for research purposes — your names will remain anonymous. If you have been hassled by the government for your lifestyle, particularly by any child services department, we want to hear from you by phone, in writing or by E-Mail.

FOR ALL EVENTS PLEASE RSVP THE LTD HOT LINE: 818-886-0069.

LOCATION OF ALL EVENTS UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED:
8515 PENFIELD AVE. IN WINNETKA (ZIP 91306). NEAR CHASE AND WINNETKA.

FREEWAY OFF RAMPS: WINNETKA OFF 101, ROSCOE OFF 405, TAMPA OFF 118
THOMAS BROS. LOS ANGELES MAP PAGE 530 E1 (that's E ONE) Where jacuzzi is mentioned, bring towel and sandals. Jacuzzi is clothing optional.