Today and tomorrow is the last session for this year’s Awakening the Creative Spirit program.  It has been a wonderful journey with an amazing group of diverse participants and I am eager to see what these last days call forth from everyone.  For 2007-2008 Betsey and I decided to take a break from the monthly format of this program and instead will offer it as a weeklong intensive from November 11-17, 2007 at St. Andrew’s Retreat House on the Hood Canal a couple of hours from Seattle.  There have been many of you who have expressed the desire to participate

I am doing a little housekeeping and unpacking of more boxes here at the Abbey: I have updated my Resource List to include blog friends (scroll to the bottom of the page).  One of the reasons I have never done this before is I am afraid of forgetting someone, so if I have done so, please do not take offense.  Just send me a gentle email or leave a comment.  I love the diversity of people I have gotten to know in the Blogosphere and value the variety of ideas I have encountered.  I have added a number of spirituality and

Part Two of my cleaning out process.  Listed below are several more books that I have either read or probably won’t get a chance to read.  Same as before:  read over the list, select one or two titles that interest you, then leave a comment with your request.  I will email you for your mailing address and send it to you by media mail.  Read through the comments before requesting a title to make sure it wasn’t claimed already.  I will try and go in and cross off the ones requested as they go.  Those who already claimed books in Part One are