Bill McKibben has spoken at our annual meeting a couple of years ago, and Parker Palmer is a will-known Quaker educator/thinker/writer. If they have liked it I think our readership would, too.

Please contact me if you would like a review.

The day is finally here for you. Congratulations!

Any chance I could ask you send me an autographed book? I just put in an order and sent your note out to a bunch of friends for you.

I’d would treasure any words of encouragement to help me continue on with my first book on SpIN : “Walking in the Sprit of Nature”. I just finished 10 years of working to establish 4 beautiful Interfaith Walking Paths in Massachusetts and 1 in Rhode Island.

Looking forward with great anticipation to receive your book. It sounds great.

Hope you sell a boat full.

All the best,

Dan Shea
Spirit in Nature Pathways
6 Chadwick Road
Burlington, MA
01803

Hope this finds you well
I followed your circling home journey – it was inspiring and beautiful.

I am mailing in my reg form for the IJS retreat – cant wait to get back to that eden called Alaska. I am interested in adding another week to my trip – continuing the spiritual journey – do you have any suggestions?

Looking forward to the summer

Peace
Frida

It was a wonderful, sweet and spectacular trip this summer. It was nice to be together again with you, Seth, Gordon and Emi and the rest of our group in the kayaks floating in a quiet world of spruce, grasses, and bald eagles or paddling against an unseen current, or meditating on the platform by the creek behind the lodge. Memories that I will always carry with joy.

The possibility of joining you again is always a quiet hope; maybe again some day.

Thank you for the wonderful trip.

Let me know whenever you’re coming down to Spirit Rock. You’ve got a ride and a friend.

Metta

Bill Harkins and I are looking toward a return to Alaska next summer so I’d love to hear the dates when you’ve got ‘em. And I’m excited that your manuscript for the book is going well and will look forward to talking about it with you at the Lodge in 2010. I was fortunate to be able to attend five sessions of Gordon’s mindfulness teaching that he and his wife hold on Wednesday evenings in Nashville. I was up there quite often spending time with a dear friend who died of cancer in late July and I made a stop over for “sitting” with Gordon part of my travel ritual.

Hope you are well. I’m glad the change in venue worked out!

- Skip Johnson

Apologies for being so long in getting back to you. I have been almost completely off the grid in Alaska since late May, leading my Inside Passages kayaking meditation retreats. I’ve only now found your request.

I’m guessing you’ve already made other plans for this Sucia trip, but would like to talk to you about it in any event, if not for this year, then in the future. I’ve done a few kayaking meditation retreats out of Four Winds Camp on Orcas and out to Jones Island, and Sucia would be a wonderful location for this.

This September might be tough in any event, because I’m finishing a book which is due at the end of September. If your retreat is scheduled for late September, and you’re still interested for this year, give me a call – 360-579-1498.

Thanks,

Kurt

Living here in rural Mexico where many of the people around me walk or ride horses or burrows as they have no cars, makes me consider my lifestyle on a daily basis. Often it is uncomfortable for me, as I deal with the economic challenges in my life, knowing I have so much more stuff than anyone around me. This includes running hot water, a phone, internet, computer, cars, furniture, etc. And this is the way most of the world lives. I see the US in a totally different way now, being away, and living with even less myself.

I think we all need to reconsider our lifestyles and consumption, and your journey this last year reflects your committment to consider…Hopefully others will do the same in the way they can.

Lori Wilson