Today (Wednesday) is our first rainy day on Iona. This is the way it is usually. Many of our group are going on a boat outing. I hope they are successful in their quest. The wind and the rain...hummm. We are divided (all Abbey guests or residents) into 3 work groups. Otters have breakfast duty and chop vegetables. Puffins (I am one) have lunch duty and chores. I change toilet paper rolls and trash can liners, and dump trash to the outside bin. Then the Otters have dinner duty and different chores, like keeping the Common Room supplied with hot water, cups etc. There are two worship services a day which are quite meaningful. Some classes and alone time round out the day. Tonight is a Concert, or Talent Show. Our Redlands UCC group is singing "The Raggedy Band" by Jim Manley. Bill on the guitar, the rest of us voices. And a Raggedy Band we are!
The week is going by very quickly. It will be a wrench to say good bye. We have done this "good bye" piece several years ago when we moved to Seattle in 1983. The passage of 28 years doesn't make this good bye easier! Didn't think about that when we signed on.
Wish you were here. A spiritual experience it is albeit experienced differently by each one of us.
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