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12th Annual Empty Bowls Dinner
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DATE: Friday March 16, 2012
TIME: 6PM WHERE: NRV Fraternal Order of Police on University Blvd, Radford COST: $20.00 for adults, $10.00 students Tickets at the door WHAT: A simple meal of beans and rice. Choose a handmade pottery bowl to remember that there are always empty bowls to fill in the world. |
Handmade Bowls By Drew Dodson and students |
Empty Bowls StoryOnce upon a time . . . a man died. The Great Spirit, known to different religions by different names, asked the man where he wanted to go, heaven or hell. The man said “Let me see hell.” He went there and found himself in a dining room. The tables were heaped with food, the bowls were filled with food, yet everyone was thin and gaunt. At each place each person sat with a three foot long spoon struggling to feed themselves. But their arms were too short. Despite all the food, the people were starving. Then the man went to heaven. There too he was in a dining room. The tables were heaped with food, but the bowls were empty. The people were well fed and happy. Each had a three foot spoon. How could this be? Then he saw. Each person filled their own bowl with food from the platters and proceeded to feed each other, emptying their bowl into the mouth of another person. |
