UMTravels

This picture should say it all. Winter at Breitenbush Hot Springs. Since 1981 or 82 I have spent each President’s Day weekend here. It is the immovable object of my life. This weekend is the time that I spend thinking about the last year, and thinking ahead to the next — it is truly my “new year” when one ponders the past and the future. It is my grounding. It is my immovable object.

For twenty five years this has been my winter retreat, the time away from the outside world. I don’t consider myself in the league of the rest of the congregants, but I make my own space and my own peace. This place keeps me sane, enables me to make sane decisions about life, love, jobs…

It is my immovable object.