Monthly Newletters
August Monday, August 1, 6 PM, Zoom: Meditation and Sutra Service Tuesday, August 2, 6:15-8:15 PM, Zoom: Steering Committee Meeting Saturday, August 6, 10 AM to noon, Zoom: Women’s Ways… Ordinary and Sacred Series, Sarah Bender, Roshi and Piper Leigh Monday, August…
July Monday, July 4, 6 PM: Meditation and Sutra ServiceTuesday, July 5, 6:15-8:15 PM, Zoom: Steering Committee MeetingSaturday, July 9, 10-11:30 AM, Zoom: Women’s Ways… Ordinary and Sacred Series, Sarah Bender, Roshi and Piper LeighMonday, July 11, 6 PM: Community Night: Meditation and ConversationSaturday, July 16, 10-11:30…
June Friday-Sunday, June 3-5, Zoom: Inside the Dream Reunion: The Tale of the Lindworm; A weekend online retreat with a koan and an old storyMonday, June 6, 6 PM: Meditation and Sutra ServiceTuesday, June 7, 6:15-8:15 PM, Zoom: Steering Committee MeetingWednesday,…
This dewdrop world–Is a dewdrop world,And yet, and yet …-Kobayashi Issa Dear Friends, May Day! It has multiple resonances for many of us. Today, on the calendar, falls halfway between the Winter solstice and the Spring Equinox. Even the midst…
All things return to the One. What does the One return to? Dear Friends, As Spring, with a little help from some rain and snow here in the Front Range, begins its magical unfurling under our feet, brightens over our…
Dear Friends, During March, time will change, Winter will change its tune with signs already arriving: Magpies building their nests, owls conversing, geese in formation overhead, buds slowly fattening. Spring will arrive! It’s cheering to have daffodils indoors so eagerly…
Photograph and Watercolor by Susan Rogers’ sister-in-law, Leslie H. Carson Dear Friends, The word that comes first this month is breathe. It arises as I look at the two images above, each beautiful in its own way. The photo, on the left,…
Dear Friends, This morning I watched the coy moon climbing through the pine boughs, as sunlight crept up from behind the farther treeline, light meeting light across the darkness of dawn, and was grateful for this daily ritual, in the midst…
Dear Friends, From this morning’s meditation, Out beyond the pink geraniums, Bare branches in morning sun Sky innocent as a baby’s belly. How to let in this grace? How…
Dear Friends, Our Sitting Alone, Together retreat concluded just Sunday afternoon (the anniversary of our Refuge Retreat of last year!), and for me, it continued into packing, pulling the little blue kayak up into the house, washed and ready for…