Theme: Many feet of snow; fewer and fewer steps to Spring
It's downhill now.
Calender says 1March2011 and the mountain, yard, and roadsides are high with snow. The front room and upstairs bedroom are torn into 150 year old walls and ceiling. Saw signature, says the Irish archaeologist and can-do-everything workman, was pre-1860.
Torn out ceiling boards reveal what was hidden behind sodden tiles from last ice dam now in construction bags under latest foot of snow. My vote has long been to rent a bulldozer. I think there are irregularities in the vote-counting procedures. It's what happens when you have a repair-less or irreparable mind.
Weekend meditation practices have utilized the Merton Retreat for the winter and has served well. We are fortunate to have the light-filled, woody, and heated building for our use and the use of wider community.
Quaker Meeting: We are pleased to announce that beginning in March Meetingbrook will serve as site Sunday mornings 9AM-10AM, October through May, Megunticook Worship Group's Sunday Morning Quaker Meetings for Worship. The Thomas Merton Bookshed/Retreat will be the site. All are welcome.
Weekend meditation practices have utilized the Merton Retreat for the winter and has served well. We are fortunate to have the light-filled, woody, and heated building for our use and the use of wider community.We’ve been on the road with Saskia’s work the last few months. Aroostook County, Washington County, Western and Southern and Central Maine. The state of Maine is so lovely. Mountains, farms, valleys, lakes, rivers, ocean, ponds, and towns the size of a blink in sunshine.
We try to simplify. We long to learn to pray. We look out and around and hope to come to see.
We hold all our brothers and sisters -- all beings, all things, all seen and unseen relatives -- in our hearts and minds. Especially, these days, all those you’ve asked us to hold in prayer, those worried about, those suffering, and those experiencing the confusions of these times.
Spring is talking to winter about a smooth transition. We hang on. We listen in, grateful for the terrific winter, and willing to welcome the warmth of spring.
With love,
Peace, and all good!
, Rokpa 
, Mu-ge 
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, Rokpa , Mu-ge ,and all who grace Meetingbrook
1 March 2011
