Sally Brown

Last fall I attended a four-day silent retreat at Pine Mountain Temple. It was quite wonderful. The weather was perfect, the people attending were nice, and, of course, the food was good.

I had been on retreats before and was looking forward to the silence. In the beginning it was explained that this would be a silent retreat, all well and good, but then Reverend Phoebe added – and no other words.

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