MAY ALL BE KIND TO EACH OTHER
This was something of a family week at Indralaya. Leonie’s brother Peter arrived during last week’s work party and stayed the week with us in the RMC. Our niece Collin arrived to begin a two week fellowship mid-week and Arthur Van Gelder, another of Leonie’s brothers, was co-head cook (with Peter) for the weekend program. There were also several Levey family members here: John & Shelagh, sisters Susan Huotari (all the way from Finland) and Andrie Levey-Bates, as well as Andrie's daughter Kelsey.
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Arthur arrives by seaplane to meet his head-cooking responsibilities |
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Collin whips up a batch of oatmeal cookies in the kitchen |
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Peter with Nancy Lehwalder |
The program leader for the weekend was Nawang Khechog. Nawang was born in Tibet and is a world-renowned musician and former hermit monk who teaches about Awakening Kindness. Nearly forty people were here for the program, which also included a free Saturday night concert for the Orcas Island community.
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Nawang Khechog in concert |
Sunday was our 17th wedding anniversary. We were married one week before we arrived at Indralaya in 1995 and began what was to have been a one or two year stay at camp as resident managers. If we knew then what we know now ... we wouldn’t change a thing!
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wedding party members, 17 years later |
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