This Group is about Exploring Life in the

 Hemingway Tradition

with an emphasis on

Culture, Continuing Education

and

The Occasional Adventure.

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 Life is not a spectator sport ...

... and physical reality is infinitely more interesting than virtual reality.

 "There is no life on the internet, ... no sense of space in cyberspace."

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This group was created to encourage exploration of and participation in cultural and educational opportunities in the Greater Cambridge area and occasionally further afield. All events are open to attendance by anyone. Viewers of this site, whether they choose to join the CMF or not, may attend any of the events.  Members may RSVP or not, and still attend events. There are no requirements either for membership or attendance. Members do, however, receive event reminders - and members are encouraged to actually meet up!

CMF Meet-Ups are member-driven; that is, if you would like to meet up with other members, it is up to you, as a member, to post your plans on the event message board. I am not able to attend every event, so if no one posts plans, then no one meets up.

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The Cambridge Moveable Feast is geared more toward Traditional Cultural and Educational opportunities rather than Pop, Abstract, Postmodernist or Techno-Culture.

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Note: If you have a question that doesn't affect the rest of the group, Please email me directly using the link to the left. Everyone else gets enough email as it is. Thanks.

Further Note: Occasionally, events are cancelled by the event sponsor. The CMF neither sponsors nor cancels events. Should an event be cancelled, the event will be removed from the calendar. However, the CMF is not always notified of cancellations. Please confirm, prior to attending, the time and location of the event from the event sponsor.

Also: Some events require pre-registration through the event sponsor. A "Yes" RSVP here is NOT pre-registration. Attendees must still pre-register individually through the event sponsor. Usually there will be a link to the event sponsor's website for pre-registration.

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The Cambridge Moveable Feast has no political, commercial, academic or spiritual affiliations of any kind.

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If you care about the future of this planet, click here: http://www.meetup.com/Sequitoria/

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"Men (sic) have sought to make a world from their own conception and to draw from their own minds all the material which they employed, but if, instead of doing so, they had consulted experience and observation, they would have the facts and not opinions to reason about, and might have ultimately arrived at the knowledge of the laws which govern the material world." - Francis Bacon

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"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy ... neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water." - John W. Gardner

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“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” - Robert Heinlein

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"I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives, the disastrous byproduct of the scientific and technical mentality." - Albert Einstein

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EH is simply a point of reference for this group, as well as the source of our name: "If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a Moveable Feast" - (EH) ... ... ... as is Cambridge - (S).

For more on Hem, click HERE.

"It was wonderful to walk down the long flights of stairs knowing that I'd had good luck working. I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day. But sometimes when I was started on a new story and I could not get going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there. It was easy then because there was always one true sentence that I knew or had seen or had heard someone say. If I started to write elaborately, or like someone introducing or presenting something, I found that I could cut the scrollwork or ornament out and throw it away and start with the first true simple declarative sentence I had written." - Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

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The Cambridge Moveable Feast

is a

Sequitorian Enterprise.

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Sequiturum Dei Omnipotentem.  

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 Afterthought: Life is interesting enough, Ernie, without having to make things up. - S.

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And finally ... If you find that the internet, news and entertainment media, professional sports and other spectacles, in conjunction with everything else available via the global communications infrastructure, are more compelling than those things in your immediate surroundings which you can access directly through your five senses, ... that’s a problem. - S.