Retreat House Weekend Rental Available

May 16-18, 2003

Retreat House

The Retreat House at Rolling Ridge has become available for rental the weekend of May 16-18. This is a lovely time of year, with full moon on May 16, and a wonderful workshop on Open Space at Friends Wilderness Meditation Center Saturday morning. Call Nelson Good for rental details (202-332-7076)

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You ask why I make my home
in the mountain forest,
and I smile, and am silent,
and even my soul remains quiet:
it lives in the other world
which no one owns.

The peach trees blossom.
The water flows.

~ "You ask why" by Li-Po