Author: SMS Editor

Movie Night, Friday Jan. 8th 6:30pm MST- Soul

Movie Night, Fri. Jan 8th 6:30 pm MST*Soul Join sangha members and bring a friend or your family for conversation and a casual get together about the film – popcorn and refreshments & pets welcome too! At the conclusion of SMS’s late summer book study of Rhonda McGee’s Inner…

A loss in our family

Dear Friends, Last night, December 21 at 11:40, our dear friend and long-time sangha-mate, Steve Milligan, stopped breathing. Steve had cancer; it kept sapping his strength and wouldn’t be turned back. He died a very quiet death, at age 73,…

January 2021 Newsletter

Solstice  Letter Winter 2020 from Sarah Bender Dear Friends, Woke at 3:45 this morning, 43 minutes after do-si-dothe moment where tilt away turns to tilting to,a moment that is just a pointand so is imaginary, like everything else heldin the deep…

December 2020 Newsletter

A note from Sarah Bender: Dear Springs Mountain Sangha and friends, The first dedication we offer in our sutra service is an expression of our gratitude for the meditation, the companionship, the teaching of all sorts of ancestors and all…

November 2020 Newsletter

A note from Sarah Bender: Dear Springs Mountain Sangha and friends, Sangha members and friends have emerged from our first five-day online meditation retreat with a pervasive joy in the discovery that a meditation retreat held in the very little and very…

Retreat Update: Turn, Turn, Turn

A note from Sarah Bender:Dear Friends and Companions, I hope this finds you all well and rolling….with the punches?  In the autumn leaves?  Both?   In Colorado Springs we’ve had a hot, dry, smoky and yet gloriously golden week.  Each…