Thank you for sharing so many treasures via email. It was a rare treat to reconnect with Mariliz through her music. Although the sound wasn’t great and video was a bit stop-start, the exquisite essence of the music came through.

With my various duties and responsibilities these days, it hasn’t been possible to have a complete day of silence on the the last Sunday. But I do keep as much silence as possible on the day and consciously hold a place of stillness and openness in my heart from Saturday evening to Monday evening – covering all the time zones. I do feel the connection with the profound womb of silence that is created. Of course the ideal is to live in that place of peace stillness at all times. I am sure that as this practice is maintained that will be the case. I’m working on it!

Much love and profound gratitude to you all,
Louise

Thank you for the lovely music and performance….I met Arvo Part several years back when as I was assigned to personally care for him when I worked at the Bach Festival in Eugene. My great honor was to deliver him flowers on stage after his first performance of new piece he had just written. Wow, an amazing and gifted creator!

Love, Valerie

Barbara, I’m snuggled into a cottage right on the ocean, awaiting our day of silence tomorrow. A sister-friend of mine, gave me, as a Christmas gift, the use of her beach cottage for a reatreat the last Sunday of the month. Can you imagine a better gift?
I joined you in November for the day of silence. December was a blurr of celebrations. However my intention is to take the day of solitude, with everyone, on the last day of the month for the rest of the year.
This past summer, Ron and I spent 10 weeks on the shores of Lake Superior in a remote log cabin – unhooked from the tech. world. I discovered the healing power of the energies of nature as they transformed by being. And I reveled in the magic of silence. I took several hours in solitude each day, and retreated to what I called my “goddess tent” – a tent of mosquito netting, which swirled around me like a fairy gown. Thankful? Oh yes in deed! To the quick! It is my joy to join you in the current of solitude as it sweeps through all of us, and is a blessing to the larger world each month. Please check out the attached link to see some pictures of where we were. http://copyexchange.org/_unplugged_summer/
My blessings and love go out to each women who is taking solitude tomorrow. And my love to you, and great thanks for opening this adventure to all of us.
love,
Angela Skene
Roberts Creek, BC
angela.skene@gmail.com

Dear friends,
Winter has arrived. A walk in the crisp, cold air is refreshing, but also good to have warm rooms in the house. I spent most of this Silent Sunday in a warm room with Debussy music. I put papers and books in their proper places in a totally new and empty space; shelves which provides me with a whole new system, just right for where I am now in my life!
In the past two weeks I have sorted and discarded, and it gave me a great sense of clear and clean space for a new season. My room has a much better balance of positive and negative space now, also with a good chair and place for just having tea, and I no longer call it my office, just my room. Silence and pauses and negative space, in form and time, they all help provide that healthy balance.
Kari