by Lindsay McLaughlin | Dec 2, 2019 | Contemplations
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing About the dark times. Bertolt Brecht Even the splotches of rusty orange and russet punctuating the lacework of bare branches have turned now to brown leaf-carpet. They were what remained of...
by Lindsay McLaughlin | Sep 22, 2019 | Contemplations
We recently held a retreat at Rolling Ridge, “Finding the Gold in the Darkness: The Way of Soul in Troubled Times,” led by Jim Hall and Cheryl Hellner. In preparation for the retreat we were asked to read an essay by Mary Evelyn Tucker, “Learning to Navigate...
by Lindsay McLaughlin | Jul 18, 2019 | Contemplations
“Every day has something in it whose name is forever.” (Everything That Was Broken, Mary Oliver) Recently that “something in it” was the sight of my granddaughter and two friends plucking wine berries from the bushes by the dirt path and...
by Lindsay McLaughlin | Jun 11, 2019 | Contemplations
Last month I stood with a circle of sixty people or so on a rocky beach on Long Island Sound and sang up the moon. As the soft full circlet of the moon rose above the water, the coral sun sank in the west. We gazed in awed silence, chanted, recited poetry. The...
by Rolling Ridge | May 14, 2019 | Contemplations
Still Point Mountain Retreat is a sister community to Rolling Ridge Study Retreat. Located nearby, adjacent to the Rolling Ridge Foundation lands, Still Point exists for the same reasons and does the same work of wilderness preservation and hospitality for those...
by Rolling Ridge | Apr 15, 2019 | Contemplations
Children gambol on the gentle hillside between our houses where forsythia blooms. The fronds adorning the old willow stump are filling out, a green fountain. These are bright compositions of happiness and hope, the faithfulness of Earth greening once again. Yet for...
