I was telling a couple people that I’m grateful several noted writers have fundamentally changed the quality of their work during the past couple of years. I had read their works in the past, but hadn’t been taken by them. Somehow, their writing didn’t work. You may know of some of them. Jim Collins. Bill […]

The retreat center is a house. Some part of it is 150 years old or more, since Kies’ have been on this land for 175 years. A few years ago, the whole house was remodeled. New windows, new cabinets, new drywall, new carpet, new paint. It’s not quite an Ezekiel house, the bones were all […]

At the beginning of my retreat time, I sat on the sofa where I was going to sleep, needing to find the starting point. A race starts with a pistol, but a retreat is an unrace, an anti-race. Starting with slowing, with soul-searching makes sense. Perhaps the best tool that process at the end of […]