Jane’s Beautiful Soul

to experience the Vineyard’s magical majesty

to see the idiosyncracies of each backyard tree

to look at our Island’s night sky as always new

to talk to her dog, Mac, as though to me and you

in one of Jane’s poems entitled My Trees

she hears “screeching sound of saws on trees”

so roads can be made and houses built

in forest where she and a boy once walked

Like your tiles more exotic than Scrabble? Join the mahjong games at the Vineyard Haven Public Library on the last Saturday of each month — mark your calendar for next Saturday, April 30 — from 2 to 4 p.m.

Beginners and players of all skills are welcome. Newbies can receive teaching on how to play along with a handout with all the rules.

There are many variations of Mahjong. Nevermind the many modern twists; this is old school play, the traditional Chinese version of the game using Henry Snyder’s rules and simplified scoring method.

Edartown restaurant Chesca’s in association with Cakes by Liz, Sweet E’s Cupcakes in Vineyard Haven, and Sweet Life Café in Oak Bluffs will be baking special desserts during the week before Mother’s Day, May 2 to 8, to battle breast cancer as part of the 12th annual Boston Bakes for Breast Cancer.

Desserts start at $3 and 100 per cent of sales will benefit breast cancer research and care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Salsa for Seniors

The Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living urges Vineyarders to participate in Sharky’s Cantina’s dine-to-donate evening on Tuesday, April 26. Sharky’s owner JB Blau will donate 15 per cent of the food sales from both Sharky’s Cantinas, on Circuit avenue in Oak Bluffs and Main street in Edgartown, to the center’s efforts to enrich the lives of Island seniors.

Every Tuesday Sharky’s benefits a different nonprofit organization.

British neurologist and bestselling author Oliver (Awakenings) Sacks noted that enjoying art is not just a visual experience — it’s an emotional one: “In an informal way I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in painting at a time when they are scarcely responsive to words and disoriented and out of it. I think that recognition of visual art can be very deep.”

Let Freedom Ring

Islander Mev Good will tell the story of two people, one white and one black, and their shared pursuit of freedom, in A Daughter of a Slave Gives Me My Freedom: A Personal Account, his talk on Tuesday, April 26, at 7 p.m. at the Vineyard Haven Public Library.