Empathy is a weird word for me – not that it sounds weird, just that it seemed to take a long time for me to learn. I suspect this is because it’s a word that contains much more than its meaning. A while ago, I read an op-ed piece in the New York Times by [...]
Read more...The antiphon for Dec. 21, Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year, is “O Radiant Dawn, splendor of eternal light, sun of justice …” It came to life as the morning sun highlighted Dumbell Peak, making the mountain shimmer with brilliance. The light of “Radiant Dawn” was still alive as we entered the longest [...]
Read more...With guidance from Creative Resident Lisa Dahill, Holden Villagers are exploring and personalizing ancient prayers known as the “O Antiphons” during the final week before Christmas. The seven antiphons traditionally are sung in conjunction with Mary’s song (The Magnificat) at Vespers. They are also familiar to modern worshipers through the beloved hymn, “O Come, O [...]
Read more...It’s Thanksgiving, but not the Thanksgiving that I have remembered. For one, I am living in a chalet, which is such an improved word than house or apartment. I am already thinking when I go down lake I must tell people I live in a chalet just because I enjoy saying that word so much. [...]
Read more...Thanksgiving has long been my favorite holiday. Food, football and family. It just doesn’t get much better than that. I love to cook and a day of puttering in my own kitchen with the television broadcasting two football games and and family checking in all day long is a “foretaste of the feast to come” [...]
Read more...A hiking montage created by Tim Straub, the Trails Crew area head this last summer, for the 50th Anniversary Celebrations. Enjoy!
Read more...This short film narrative captures a few days of village life in this isolated mountain retreat center in the Washington Cascades. The film touches upon three aspects of Holden: Living, Community, and Renewal–calling upon vivid images of laughter, dance, food, work, play, and prayer to present Holden in the light of its mountain splendor.
Read more...Holden’s got an author! That’s right, longtime Holden Village mechanic Terry Sanderson has written and published a book. After many years of using hops growing near the Jacuzzi and porches of Holden Village for making beer, Terry wrote a book about it: How to Make Good Beer From Scratch Terry’s book, available in the Holden [...]
Read more...At its July 2012 meeting, the board of directors of Holden Village will be electing several new members to serve a four-year term. We are committed to reflecting the full diversity of the church and particularly to representation from ELCIC and LCMS. Board members are asked to invest their personal energy and skills in the [...]
Read more...On January 12, 2010, a powerful earthquake struck Haiti, one of the poorest countries in the world, leaving nearly 300,000 dead, over one million people displaced, and devastating what little infrastructure Haiti had. The year of 2010 continued to be unmerciful to the people of Haiti with a Cholera epidemic, Hurricane Tomas, a governmental election, [...]
Read more...So, I’ve been shoveling for quite a few weeks now. First I shoveled the Ark, then I moved on to working on the Chalet 7 Memorial Bypass Highway. Sometimes I had company. Sometimes I worked alone. When I began work on the Ark, I got a lot of funny looks and comments about the futility [...]
May 9, 2012 Teach Me to Rise the Sun So much to wonder, so much to find Understanding incapable, the search restricted blind Trying to achieve higher existence, the harder I try What begins making complete sense can end as a lie There is more to this, but how to discover All humanity helpless, stranger, [...]