by Lindsay McLaughlin | Dec 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
Photo from NASA, Public Domain Advent always was an interim time, spanning the threshold between the harvest festivals of autumn and the vulnerable, fierce hope of Christmas. That “betwixt and between” time and place, where things tend to happen, wove itself around...
by Lindsay McLaughlin | Nov 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
This was the opening reflection for the Friends of Silence Board Meeting November 20, 2016. Our country and our world is in a good bit of trouble right now. We live in what storyteller Michael Meade calls “black dog times”. The tale goes like this: The Old People of...
by Lindsay McLaughlin | Nov 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Annual Meeting of the “Study Retreat Associates of Rolling Ridge” (our official name) is a gathering of the residential community, the Board, our Partner Groups, and friends. It occurred on Saturday, five days after the election. I wrote a piece for the opening of...
by Lindsay McLaughlin | Oct 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty. (GK Chesterton) I have been thinking about this two-sentence quote. I saw it first in paraphrase form in an email from a friend. The paraphrase...
by Lindsay McLaughlin | Oct 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
By the time a small group of us gathers for our Advent and Winter Solstice retreat The Gift of Story in early December, it is probable that the U.S. presidential election will at last be over. Perhaps the ads, mailings, rallies, debates, harangues, solicitations, and...
