Advent Hope
Advent is about hope. As the year turns to a close, there can be a haunting bitter-sweet feel to this month - hoping for loved ones to return, for health to return, balancing limited family budgets with unlimited expectations of children. For some, the aspects that would make a happy Christmas are missing. Reality is always less than it might be. →
Autumn Leisure
Autumn is time for contemplative appreciation and assimilation of an active summer. The long days of gardening and grounds keeping and caring for retreatants are succeeded by shorter days and golden leaves and best of all—time and silence. Everyone has rhythms of action and contemplation. These used to be determined by seasons of the year. Technology changed that with graveyard shifts →
