I recently finished a short course taught online through the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. It was a fiction workshop with an eyecatching title (“Structure Your Vision,”) which I found on the MWPA site (https://www.mainewriters.org/). So I signed up, and for five weeks ten of us met under the incisive and graceful leadership of Judson […]
The Well of Hospitality
I think about water a lot, living here on the banks of the Narramissic. We live on the river bank where for hundreds of years the Wabanaki people lived and fished, giving thanks for the bounty of “the river of many fish” and for this “quiet place between the rapids”. Rivers, waterways, springs and wells […]
2nd Annual Burns’ Night Supper
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 […]