by Lindsay McLaughlin | May 27, 2017 | Contemplations
The rain has played with the clouds and the peeping sun for days. Sometimes the forest glows lush and golden; then it drips and drips, the earth sucking at our galoshes. Nothing lasts for long. Here spring is in full swing. Outside my window, bluebirds are nesting...
by Linda DeGraf | May 11, 2017 | Contemplations
May 2017 Having recently participated in a weeklong gathering to explore the Enneagram in Motion, I have been pondering the nature of soul, transformation, and the interdependence necessarily at the heart of the evolution of human consciousness. Russ Hudson...
by Lindsay McLaughlin | Apr 21, 2017 | Contemplations
In an old story, it takes Christ three days to let go of all that holds him to this world, including the breath of life, and journey to the underworld. There he “harrows” the darkness and the depths, as an ancient farmer might probe and stir and prod the...
by Linda DeGraf | Apr 1, 2017 | Contemplations
April 2017 In a little corner of my garden, I noticed bright green slender crocus leaves pushing their way up through the crusted brown earth. They steadfastly emerged still capped with dry clods of dirt and endured the unsettling vagaries of freezing nights and late...
by Linda DeGraf | Mar 29, 2017 | Contemplations
Wonder what those three have in common? So did the intrepid group that found its way down the long gravel road past Shannondale to the Rolling Ridge Foundation lands last Sunday afternoon, March 19th. We spent about an hour discussing the Forest Stewardship Plan...
by Linda DeGraf | Mar 29, 2017 | Contemplations
March 2017 In this period of cacophonous town hall meetings and bombardment of the senses with advertising, social media, and rhetoric, we as a society seem to have lost the art and discipline of listening. Even if we hear voices amid the noise, it is difficult to...
