David Hodges on HS/NDS retreat

[Guest guest]

In my last post, I forgot to say that David reached New Haven on Sunday

morning and has already posted. Sorry. Love you David.

 

 

David Hodges wrote on NDS:

 

Alas, no Sitecam, no broadband to show you the love, smiles, laughter,

dancing, whirling, poetry, and fellowship of that gathering. I am back home

with many wonderful memories and a joyful heart. This is indeed a vibrant

community. It feels like the dawn of time and we have all awakened in some

post-historical Eden free to create the world as we see fit. From the

virtuality of cyberspace to the actuality of Diamond Hill Monastery was not

a big leap at all, indeed, it was a homecoming. It was wonderful to

discover Harsha's loving ability to bring the best out of people in

conversation, Christiana's dancing grace, OH's surprising embodiment of

clarity (she is anything but an Old Hag!), Nora's abiding presence,

Andrew's warmth and light, Victor's laughter and his propensity to break

out into song, Jerry's ability to sit with his elbows on a wooden kitchen

table for 14 hours at a stretch, Michael's compassion, Mark and Mary's

joyfulness and love for eachother and for us, Gloria's gift for keeping

such a individualistic bunch on some kind of path, Biff's oneness with the

group, Greg's teaching clarity and the way he beat time to Afro-Cuban salsa

using an upended meditation stool, and Petros's articulate interiority.

Plus we had some good cigars, lots of rain, and some terrific bullfrogs

calling from the pond down below.

 

Love,

David