Discover the Bliss of Asheville's Social Hours

Asheville Green Drinks "...Please Join us at 22 Lexington Ave. at BoBo Gallery for Asheville's only Green Social Hour.  Networking starts at 6:30 so don't be late and please, bring a friend... Asheville Green Drinks is always looking for speakers. Please contact us if you have any ideas about Green Drinks, or know anyone who might be willing to contribute. topfloorstudio@gmail.com..."

BoBo Gallery ".... was first established in San Francisco in 1987. BoBo combines the best of small club music and dance environments with cutting edge underground gallery concepts to create a unique blend of social unity. The idea is to celebrate around art and music, demystifying the role of gallery and attempting to create a comfortable, social environment to show and critique different genre of art, music, poetry, performance and dance. We will attempt to showcase creative cultural ideas and attitudes that reflect our own feelings and concerns about the world we live in. BoBo will be providing a series of free shows and fund-raisers that support and reflect our views. Stay tuned to bobogallery.com for further information and schedules of events coming up...."

Click on each of the dozens of categories to the left to uncover what makes the Asheville area so vital, so intriguing and so, well, UTTERLY BLISSFUL!

From Rolf Potts' Vagabonding blog:

I've never been one of those uptight literary types who thinks that you have to have actually read a book in order to recommend it to others. So I feel no trepidation in suggesting Eric Weiner's new travelogue-slash-memoir The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World The premise of the book is simple but intriguing-- here is Amazon's description:

Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a beguiling mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Singapore benefit psychologically by having their options limited by the government? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy? With engaging wit and surprising insights, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.

In the imaginary Netflix queue of books-that-I'm-planning-to-read, this one has just jumped to the top. By the way, why has no one started a Netflix for books? This question, and many more, I'll leave for another day.

Asheville New Friends "... Making new friends and learning about your new community is sometimes not easy. An organization with this as its main goal might be just what you are looking for after you unpack the boxes, hang the pictures and finally have time to become acquainted with your surroundings. Asheville New Friends is a membership organization that is ready to help you make new friends and learn more about your community..... Asheville New Friends generally holds its meetings on the second Monday of the month. All meetings -- unless otherwise specified-- will be held at Groce United Methodist Church, 954 Tunnel Rd., East Asheville...." Meetings usually start at 6:00 with a social hour.