You’re invited to our Second Annual Burns Night Supper! Robert Burns’ birthday, January 25, this year falls on a Tuesday: tomorrow! Here at Oranbega Retreat Center we will be “piping in” the haggis at 6:30 p.m. A very few people will be on site here at 36 Narramissic Drive, Orland, Maine, (masked and distanced!). Many […]
Welcome One Another
“Welcome one another, and abound in hope!” That was the theme for our Epiphany Celebration at Oranbega this week. We began with a Tea Ceremony, based on a traditional Japanese gesture of hospitality which emphasizes the beauty to be found in the ordinary acts of daily life. Our tea ceremony was a tasting, choosing several […]
On Prawns, Poetry, and Hope
Prawns. The Penobscot Readers’ And Writers’ Network (Prawn) is a recently formed group of residents of our Penobscot Peninsula who meet to talk about books, stories, and poems, both the already published and the ones we may be working on. For the last few weeks we have been reading Jane Goodall’s amazing book “The Book […]