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This fall, coworkers Greg Armstrong, Cortez Mitchell and Amy Alstad, and many volunteers have been clearing the underbrush from several areas on the property. They have opened up the space under a couple of stands of trees on the west side of Lost Lake. Another clearing was opened up along the gravel road to the hermitage. Most of the underbrush in the meadow of young oaks opposite the apple orchard on the hill was mown early this fall. Many volunteers worked for several months to clear out the non-native trees and brush from the kettle on the northeast side of …

This month, I’m sharing with you a short photo tour of the grounds. Many migratory waterfowl stop on Lost Lake on their way south. These cranes came for several days to eat at the lake.

“There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky The above quote comes from a Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) Occasional Paper by Ted Dunn entitled: “The Role of Meaning-Making in Transitional Times.”  The sisters have been reading and discussing this in our daily morning meeting. The quote caused all of us to stop and consider what Dostoevsky might have meant by being “worthy of one’s sufferings.” In the article, Dunn relies on the work of Victor Frankl who was in a concertation camp during World War II. Dunn writes: …