Back from Minnesota

Abbey Church designed by Marcel Breuer

I spent a beautiful week with friends at a retreat, “Praying with Imagination,” at the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research at St John’s University, part of a Benedictine Community, in Collegeville. As was my intention, I made regular entries in my journey daybook. In addition, the 13 retreatants were given the opportunity to view the St John’s Bible (again and again!), practice a discipline known as visio divina, make books, watercolor, visit the acclaimed potter, Richard Bresnahan who is artist-in-residence at St John’s, and spend time walking throughout this exquisite, protected campus. What a joy it is to see such a community take the green movement really seriously!

I am posting some materials from my time at St John’s. My “tag book,” is a construction that I learned years ago from Hedy Kyle in New York, who made what she called a “flag book.” Here, I used luggage tags which are evocative of the “journey” aspect of the journey daybook. I think that these tags will reappear in different places!