If you happened to be strolling up Circuit avenue last Sunday and heard the nightingale voice of Rose Guerin and the ivories being mastered by Jeremy Berlin pouring out of the Ritz Cafe, and you didn’t have the time to come in, you missed a great pop-up brunch.

Friends of Family Planning board member Molly Stevens and her partner Olivia Pattison brainstormed together and hatched this wonderful idea for an event to support Friends of Family Planning and the Health Imperatives Clinic here on the Island.

Bravo, ladies. People loved your cooking, the music, the service, and the cause. We raised some helpful dollars for our Monthly Tide, End Period Poverty project and from my vantage point, everyone was having a grand time. No event happens without partnership and benefactors, and I would like to offer a public thanks to the many people who worked hard and made this fun brunch possible: Kelly Feirtag of the Ritz, Anson Mills, Chilmark Coffee, Cinnamon Starship, The Larder, Morning Glory Farm, Georgia Macon, pastry chef Flo Alexander and the waitresses at the Ritz, Max Gibbs, Janey Sobel, Rose Guerin and Jeremy Berlin, board members Susan Desmaris, Regan Goldstein and clinic program director Betsy Edge, who came to sell pastries and talk about our programs — and to Olivia Pattison for her amazing ease at the stove creating such delicious dishes.

Heartfelt thanks to all for a fabulous event.

Terre D. Young

West Tisbury

The writer is board president for the Friends of Family Planning.