Thank you!

This quick note is to thank you all for keeping me in your prayers and for sending me such lovely cards and notes. They’ve made such an important difference. I see my local specialist this week and I’m confident he’ll be impressed with my progress.

Something I’m learning again after my last big body-deal twenty years ago is that mending after surgery takes far more energy than any of us expects. Feeling up to a brief errand recently, I arrived at my destination in good shape physically but simply could not locate my brain! That was humbling and instructive. For the time being, I’ll be staying close to home and taking more naps.

See you in July. Be blessed!

Be the Church, wherever you are working for the common good of the whole as faithful followers of Christ in community with one another and others. (Community Spirit Church Guidepost)

Wine & Cheese Party to Benefit Haven House

Mary and Pete Loncar are opening their beautiful home and spectacular gardens on this Sunday, June 20th from 4:00 to 7:00 PM to benefit families that would, but for Haven House, otherwise be homeless. This event will be co-hosted by Bob and Karen Nicholson, Carolyn Carter, Judy Lokey and Larry and Lillian Frederickson. A delicious array of appetizers will be served along with wine, beer and other beverages.  This will be a time for friendship and fellowship — for friends both old and new — to spend time together in a pleasant and casual setting.

They will present information about the Haven House program to help bring awareness of how it benefits our community, how it helps families with children go from homelessness to self-sufficiency, and how you can help!

Mary and Pete live at 15236 6165 Road in Montrose and you can call 970-249-0994 with any questions. Bring your friends... the more, the merrier!

Wholeness & Wellness Weekend at LaForet

August 27-29, 2021

A quiet space, a settled body, and a calm mind allow room for what is important in life to float to the surface.

Make time to connect to nature, your body, your deep self, and community. Storytelling, yoga, mindfulness, hiking, nutrition, creative expression, connection to nature, and even massage will all be options in this retreat designed for your refreshment and re-centering. Offering hosts in each area will provide you many choices of experiences to help restore your wholeness and wellness.

Open to everyone; this is an intentionally diverse, innovative event, aiming to engage people of all religions or none, of every background and path. All are welcome. To deepen into the genuine culture of welcome, Wholeness & Wellness Weekend will engage a post-colonial potluck approach, meaning that the experience is richer when everyone has something to bring, and the structure and role of leadership and participants will be less traditional and top-down, and more communal. Rather than a keynote or main event, our hosts and participants will honor one-another's offerings and expertise.

In light of nature playing an essential role in human wellness and spiritual wholeness, we will also aim to spend abundant time outdoors, and also make this event as green and sustainable as we can reasonably achieve. At times, we may ask for those who are able to embrace the rustic and the re-usable, always with participants’ comfort in mind.

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