Day: June 16, 2015

. This past weekend I went away for an annual (sometimes bi-annual) “personal retreat.” I go to The Valle Crucis Episcopal Conference Center near Banner Elk, NC. They have, on a far corner of their property four Hermitages (pictured), which are one-bedroom log cabins arranged around a small, beautiful Chapel (those Episcopalians seem to get architecture right). I go for a lot of reasons. Some reasons are not so grand; an “escape from stress” or an “immersion in introversion” perhaps. But some of my reasons are most lofty: “I want… Continue reading Have a Personal Retreat