by Lindsay McLaughlin | Jun 11, 2020 | Contemplations
Grief in a Time of Not Knowing. The podcast’s title had me at hello. It turned out to be an interview with Zen Buddhist teacher and author Joan Halifax. The discussion opened by considering whether living in these times means to be engulfed in a collective initiation....
by Lindsay McLaughlin | Apr 9, 2020 | Contemplations
We are grateful you are joining us for our “Journey of the Heart” today, on Good Friday, also known as Holy Friday, a time set aside for the hearing of sacred story, for opening the heart, and for tending soul. The practice has its origins in the early Christian...
by Lindsay McLaughlin | Apr 2, 2020 | Contemplations
On the Schoolhouse Trail I passed an old tree with a craggy opening near the forest floor, an intriguing portal to the Underworld. Meanwhile, the serviceberries are out, their delicate creamy blossoms like fallen stars in the woods. Serviceberries are so...
by Lindsay McLaughlin | Mar 17, 2020 | Contemplations
Photo by Linda DeGraf The vernal equinox is a handful of days away, announcing the astronomical beginning of spring. On a morning last week, as dawn chased the darkness from the forest’s edge, the moon was a glowing, golden plate resting on the western horizon....
by Lindsay McLaughlin | Feb 3, 2020 | Contemplations
A new year’s turning at Rolling Ridge. The moment held a peculiar potency, for it passed on the hinge of a turbulent decade, when so much is at stake. The Earth and all her inhabitants, all that we love, is in dire straits. There is an instinct within us in such times...
by Joy Houck Bauer | Dec 10, 2019 | Contemplations
(Photo by Josh Houck) This autumn I attended a gathering where I met a wonderful group of people who were unfamiliar with the work of Rolling Ridge Study Retreat (RRSR). They asked questions like, “What happens at Rolling Ridge?” and “What do you do there?” Put on the...
