Back in December, my two sisters and my brother invited a family friend, my sister’s boyfriend and my other sister’s recently-arrived-from-Spain husband to take Ruhi Book 1, Reflections of the Life of the Spirit, with us.

We get together 2 or 3 Sundays a month and go through a series of quotes from the Baha’i Writings that pertain to topics such as virtues, unity and backbiting, as well as prayer and life and death. Each of the quotes has a series of questions to answer as a group and these usually lead to discussion. These discussions can become very intruiging and are always very friendly. I had never really spent an extended amount of time talking to my siblings about these issues and it has been a really wonderful experience to do so now.

About a week and a half ago we started the Study Circle with a potluck (cabuda) Salvadorean-style brunch. It was sooooo good. I felt right at home (meaning El Salvador, not my other homes Pasadena or Burlingame). Click on the Flickr photo to the right to see all the different foods we had labeled with notes. We had beans, fried plantains, sour cream, fresh cheese, bread, avocado, but I did forget the hot chocolate at home. :(

I’ll keep this photoset updated with future photos from our study circle.