[ggc-urantialist] Catching up after RETREAT

From: <szendt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ggc-urantialist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 20:32:24 +0000
Dear GGC folks,
There was an interesting, intimate group at Saint Dorothy's for 2013 Fall 
Retreat, in the Redwoods of Sonoma County.
Friday evening, we had dinner together at Lydia House around the big dining 
room table. That was fun and we enjoyed it, being together.
The rest of our meals were prepared by the Saint Dorothy's staff at the Main 
House dining room, which we were sharing with a group from the Episcopal 
Divinity School in Berkeley. The kitchen crew is offering a variety of foods, 
and is sensitive to dietary needs. We all ate well!
On Saturday, Diane Masura came as a day-tripper, so we were thirteen. After 
breakfast, we got down to work on our study session.
We read all of Part 6, in PAPER 81 - The Maintenance of Civilization, 
interspersing our reading with some lively discussion.
It is remarkable how much of our contemporary situation those Revelators 
anticipated so many years ago, before TV and computers.
Then we broke up into pods for discussion about "The Character of Torchbearers".
Questions included who has been a Torchbearer for you, and what can we do to 
join in the work of being a Torchbearer?
After lunch we engaged in some in-depth pod work for a while, but then it was 
free-time.
The weather was perfect for being outdoors, so some folks went on a hike. 
Others stayed in Lydia House and talked or rested.
I took off with our guest from Texas, David Glass, in his rental-hybrid-car for 
a trip to town (both Occidental and Sebastopol).
After dinner, we had an hour of recorded music listening, and our usual evening 
conversations in front of the fireplace.
By Sunday the weather had changed. Foggy conditions, followed by mist and then 
rain made for a wet day.
In the morning we met for discussing what happened in our pods, followed by 
Sunday Brunch, then a worship and Remembrance Supper.
By the time everyone had cleaned-up and cleared out, in the early afternoon, it 
had been an active, far-ranging, good Retreat with some especially good chats 
and a lot of interactive discussion.
Thanks once again to Dolores Nice for organizing this retreat session at Saint 
Dorothy's.
Stephen Zendt, Walnut Creek, CA



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[ggc-urantialist] Catching up after RETREAT

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