January 2025 NEW YEAR Hope lives in the blankness of each new calendar square, the footsteps of a few appointments...
December, 2024 WATER, EARTH AND SKY: GROUNDING OURSELVES IN WINTER I could write the same December newsletter every year,...
August, 2023 I’ll keep this short and sweet, and I promise not to talk about fall too much yet – we still have several weeks of summer left! In fact, I invite you to savor summer with Lori’s upcoming Lavender Farm Day Retreat, and…file away in the back of your...
July 2023 “You do not have to do just one more thing before you will be worthy of the refuge...
December, 2022 “Doing those deeply unfashionable things – slowing down, letting your spare time expand, getting enough sleep, resting –...
July 2022 “WE WERE MADE FOR THESE TIMES… Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul,...
June 2022 REGISTER Contemplative retreat practice offers us the opportunity to pause the doings of daily life, and the chance...
January 2022 These recent foggy days have made me think of the Danish word Hygge – a word that...
November 10th, 2021 My biggest wish for you and for me during this holiday season is to have it be restful. I know, I know. The cultural conversation about the holidays – even during a Pandemic, (maybe especially since so many of us didn’t celebrate with loved ones last year)...
