The theme of the 2014 New England Retreat is Sounds from the Deep: A Voyage of Listening and Learning.
We invite you to take time this summer to notice your listening and tune into the sounds around you.
It’s 5:30 am in Newagen. The sun already shining and everything is wet with dew.
Quiet and still.
But listening more closely, paying attention to what is there instead of what it not, I hear
the crash of waves on the west shore of the island
the rustle of feathers of the crow coming to the bird feeder
the Song Sparrow’s call from across the road
the buzz of a bee visiting the blossoms on the crab apple tree
the drone of a boat’s engine in the harbor
The morning is awash in sounds against a backdrop of silence.
