Stories

Events, Projects, Theology

May 3, 2010

Saturday morning was gray and misty, but warm as we gathered to speak words of blessing and break ground for Triple Ripple Community Gardens at the Huss School property. Many denominations, ages, colors, neighborhoods and vocations were represented around our circle and each minister brought a distinctive angle to the task at hand, calling...

Community garden at Huss to kick off Saturday

Events, Projects

April 28, 2010

River Country Journal and WLKM have run press releases about Saturday's kick off for Triple Ripple Community Gardens at the old Huss School property. There will be a blessing by local ministers at 10:00 a.m. and all are welcome to attend! Orientation for volunteers will follow. Thanks to local media for helping get the...

More press for the spring break trip

People, Projects

April 12, 2010

Posts about spring break from our Imagining Space blog made their way into the local paper this past Saturday. Check it out! ...

Working in expectation on Holy Saturday

People, Story, Theology

April 5, 2010

Holy Saturday began as most of my Saturdays have begun since January: waking up early and driving into the country out west of town to help care for Moon, a blind horse owned by my new friend Carol. This work is part of a three-way barter, in which I obtained an icon of Christ...

Spring break trip gets local press

People, Projects

April 5, 2010

Bruce Snook, who was part of our journalism panel for the spring break trip, has published an article about the trip over at River Country Journal. Also, the images captured by a photographer who was out at White Yarrow farm when our group visited have made their way into a story about CSAs. ...

Spring Break 2010: Day five

March 27, 2010

Today, we cleaned the barn at the Hermitage and moved over to St. Gregory's Abbey, where we'll be spending our last day together. The hymn for morning prayer this morning was "Lord, whose love in humble service," which seemed a perfect way to finish our time at the Hermitage: Lord, whose love in humble service...

Spring Break 2010: Day four

Details, Events, People, Story

March 26, 2010

Raking: check. Well, the front yard at least. One of the themes of the week has been adjusting our sense of scale with the school as tasks take more time, more people and taller ladders than we expect. That said, our feeling after our last morning of school work was that we...

Spring Break 2010: Day three

March 25, 2010

We did a lot of raking today at Huss School. I'm beginning to realize the scale of this place because I continually underestimate the amount of stuff in the building or on the land. For example, I looked at the front yard today and thought, "There aren't that many leaves here; we can...

Spring Break 2010: Day two

March 24, 2010

Today was another full day--which means I am again sitting down to type this near midnight. We don't have internet access at the Hermitage, so I'm posting these updates to the blog while we grab water from our apartment in the morning for cleaning at the school (the school building is winterized, so there's...

Spring Break 2010: Day one

March 23, 2010

One of the text's for today's morning prayer was the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. It's a story I've heard a thousand times, but I don't think I'd heard it in quite a while. I was struck during this reading by the number of people who told Jesus upon his...

Spring break begins!