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For independent-living and life-plan communitiesEdited by William Kohn · Aventura, Florida

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Weekly · A new country each week · 45 minutes

Coffee and a Country

Each week we visit a new country together. Residents gather for a friendly 45-minute conversation about everyday life, customs and stories from that country. No advance reading. Come to talk, or just to listen.

How it works

  • Every week, a new country. China is the first; each week after brings another.
  • Arrives Wednesday at noon (Eastern), ready for a gathering that week or the next.
  • A 45-minute conversation, led by a staff member or a resident host.
  • Three things to print: a reader set for residents, a host guide for the person leading, and a poster with blank lines to fill in the Date, Time and Location.
  • Passport Week: Each Passport Week pairs Wednesday’s Coffee and a Country (at noon) with a matching Coffee and a Story and Coffee and a Topic from the same country, so a Lifestyle Director can run up to three World Desk discussion sessions that week. We produce a new Passport Week every week to grow the library. Each community picks one Passport Week per calendar month from that library, and can ask us to create a special one. China is one sample country in the library.

Standing example

This Week: China — “A Place at the Table”

Hospitality, family, and change. The big question: What should a tradition keep, and what can it change?

The China poster for Coffee and a Topic, with a large question, two pictures, and blank lines for Date, Time and Location
The poster · Hang it up and write in your date, time and place

The three pieces

Cover of the China reader set: Coffee and a Country, China, A Place at the Table

Reader set

For residents. Large print, with short readings and pictures.

First page of the China host guide for Coffee and a Topic

Host guide

For the staff member or resident who leads the conversation, with a timed plan and questions.

The China poster for Coffee and a Topic, with blank lines for Date, Time and Location

Poster

For your bulletin board. Write in the date, time and place.

Download the reader set (PDF, 4 pages)Download the host guide (PDF, 9 pages)Download the poster (PDF, 1 page)

Letter size. Prints on any office printer. The pictures are made with AI.

Edited by William Kohn, who lives in a life-plan community himself.

We use AI to help research and draft our stories and to create our illustrations. Every illustration made with AI is labeled. Every story passes an independent fact-check or our editor’s approval before it runs, and anything flagged red stays out unless it is fixed and re-checked, or the editor approves it. Our editor, William Kohn, sets the rules and is accountable for every edition. See something wrong? Email comments@theworlddesk.news.