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 Rolling Ridge | Oct 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
Photo by Abigail Carlisle A few weeks ago I landed at JFK airport in New York City, after a 20-hour flight originating in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Passing through customs was like a walk through the United Nations. As I walked down the hallways toward the metro, I...
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...
by Lindsay McLaughlin | Sep 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
Photography by Joy Houck Bauer The first mist in many months appeared and lingered all morning, curling among the trees and around the garden and sheep shed. Everyone knows I have long loved this insubstantial Being: an interim element, neither air nor water. Around...
by Lindsay McLaughlin | Sep 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
It rained early one morning, a brief respite in the dry spell; not a determined rain at first, it fell softly, a low patter in the canopy. Nevertheless it was a presence, a caress on my jacket and the stony path, gentle droplets condensed somewhere in the pale...
