by Lindsay McLaughlin | May 27, 2016 | Contemplations
I am staring out the window at another day of clouded skies and fitful rain, the twelfth in a row. In the last days of April, we made a fire in the woodstove at the Meditation Shelter to warm us as we told stories, danced, and drummed together during a women’s...
by Lindsay McLaughlin | May 22, 2016 | Contemplations
Photography by Kate Evans It rained every day since the weekend straddling April and May, when 16 women on retreat here had gathered around the two who were carrying little ones in their wombs and under their hearts. Humming softly to a gentle drumbeat in tune with...
by Linda DeGraf | May 16, 2016 | Contemplations
“A garden offers ground for growth, not only for plants that nourish and delight, but for engagement of self and world. Whether in the back forty acres or a small sunlit corner, for man or woman alike, to partake in the specific act of nurturing life brings...
by Lindsay McLaughlin | May 4, 2016 | Contemplations
Dryad – spirit of the oak tree” by Jen Delyth ©www.celticartstudio.com Offered on Easter morning around the fire circle at Rolling Ridge: A few nights ago, as we walked east along the path between the garden and the sheep field, we looked into the...
by Lindsay McLaughlin | May 1, 2016 | Contemplations
Tomorrow begins the women’s retreat, “Restorying the Heroine’s Journey” here at Rolling Ridge. We who are participating are supposed to bring a story from our lives as women. In preparation, I’ve been pondering; mulling over what some...
by Linda DeGraf | Apr 18, 2016 | Contemplations
“It came to me while reflecting on that woodland encounter with the night that there are two very valuable spiritual gifts that simplicity gives to us. It seems the more we can strip our lives down to essentials, the more deliberately and awake we can live; ...
