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What is Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community?
» Sign up for RidgeMail and receive monthly e-mail updates about new retreats, events, and other activities at Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community. » Read Quote of the Day, one of our new features, and try out our new Search Quotes. Upcoming Events at Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community
Retreat Facilities Available for RentThe Retreat House is a six bedroom retreat cabin for groups of 12 to 16 persons. Facilities include a living/meeting room, a dining area to seat up to 20, a fully furnished kitchen, a library meeting room, and shared shower baths. Accommodations are modestly comfortable with a rustic simplicity. The building is heated with an attractive woodstove; is well insulated and ventilated but not air conditioned. Still Point is a four bedroom mountain cabin with capacity to accommodate groups of six to eight persons. It includes a fully furnished kitchen with complementing dining and living room areas. Still Point is an inviting retreat space for families, individuals, and couples. The River Cabin is a two bedroom riverfront cabin with capacity to accommodate an individual, a couple, or a small family.. It includes a small kitchen and dining area. Deerspring is one of our community houses with a lovely guest room, available for private retreats. The Niles Cabin is a retreat space provided by the Friends Wilderness Center, and is available for overnight guest space. The FLOC Lodge is available for groups up to 18, and is provided by For Love of Children, one of the user groups on the mountian. Availability - The Retreat House is generally quite available for weekday reservations, but much less likely to be available for weekend reservations. The other facilities are more available for weekend scheduling. Click here for scheduling availability. Services - Generally guests need to bring their own food provisions and bedding. Lodging includes use of kitchen and dining and living room facilities. By special arrangement staff is available to provide retreat leadership for groups and directed retreat experiences for individuals. Guests are asked to clean the facilities and leave as found. Activities - Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community is located on restful wooded foothills of the Blue Ridge. Hikes and meditative walks are popular guest activities. A distinctively beautiful 10-sided meditation shelter is open for prayer and meditation any time of the day. A labyrinth is popular for walking meditation. An art cottage is available for doing art related activities. Spotting deer, wild turkeys, pileated wood peckers, and other wildlife is a common delight. Fees - Fees are negotiable and modest. Generally weekday group rates are $25 per person per day while weekends are $35 per person for the weekend. Quote of the DayYellow Glove by Naomi Shihab Nye (07/26/2008) What can a yellow glove mean in a world of motorcars and governments? I was small, like everyone. Life was a string of precautions: Don't kiss the squirrel before you bury him, don't suck candy, pop balloons, drop watermelons, watch TV. When the new gloves appeared one Christmas, tucked in soft tissue, I heard it trailing me: Don't lose the yellow gloves. I was small, there was too much to remember. One day, waving at a stream—the ice had cracked, winter chipping down, soon we would sail boats and roll into ditches—I let a glove go. Into the stream, sucked under the street. Since when did streets have mouths? I walked home on a desperate road. Gloves cost money. We didn't have much. I would tell no one. I would wear the yellow glove that was left and keep the other hand in a pocket. I knew my mother's eyes had tears they had not cried yet, I didn't want to be the one to make them flow. It was the prayer I spoke secretly, folding socks, lining up donkeys in windowsills. To be good, a promise made to the roaches who scouted my closet at night. If you don't get in my bed, I will be good. And they listened. I had a lot to fulfill. The months rolled down like towels out of a machine. I sang and drew and fattened the cat. Don't scream, don't lie, don't cheat, don't fight—you could hear it anywhere. A pebble could show you how to be smooth, tell the truth. A field could show how to sleep without walls. A stream could remember how to drift and change—next June I was stirring the stream like a soup, telling my brother dinner would be ready if he'd only hurry up with the bread, when I saw it. The yellow glove draped on a twig. A muddy survivor. A quiet flag. Where had it been in the three gone months? I could wash it, fold it in my winter drawer with its sister, no one in that world would ever know. There were miracles on Harvey Street. Children walked home in yellow light. Trees were reborn and gloves traveled far, but returned. A thousand miles later, what can a yellow glove mean in a world of bankbooks and stereos? Part of the difference between floating and going down. Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet living in San Antonio, Texas. This piece is from her book called Words Under the Words. Provided by Inward/Outward |
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