Here in the Sonoran Desert, the nights are no longer cool, and the saguaros bear fruit. The green fruits burst open to reveal their bright magenta inner rinds and sticky sweet seed-packed pulp. The living fruit stand is open. Summer arrives. In our latest Caravans newsletter, we celebrate our winter-spring “visiting season” and what a friend learned from a saguaro. Fr. Dave mourns the loss of a dear friend and healer and we update you on the Tessa Bielecki, Spiritual Life Institute, and...
We close our 20th Anniversary year with the Winter 2025 Caravans newsletter account of our joyful participation in the Center for Action and Contemplation’s October ReVision conference. And we honor the new generation of contemplatives who give us hope for the future. Tessa offers thoughts on “the desert as resistance” and ten key practices...
We celebrate twenty years as wilderness and urban hermits exploring desert wisdom. Thank you, friends, for two decades of support. "They who abide in friendship," wrote 12th-century Cistercian monk Aelred of Rievaulx, "abide in God, and God in them." Our latest Caravans newsletter focuses on the glory of friendship and includes a montage of our 20-year adventure. Read it here.
Our Winter 2024 Caravans newsletter is now available here. We celebrate a fruitful 2024 and look forward to celebrating our twenty-fifth anniversary with you in 2025. Read about Tessa’s joyful experience as World Wisdom Teacher at Naropa University. Ponder Dave’s reflections on the nightmare of Gaza, with suggestions for how to help. Fortify...
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We also offer David Denny’s moving Advent poem, “Story Teller,” Tessa...
Our Summer Caravans newsletter is now available here. You'll find a description of our lovely weekend in Patagonia, Arizona, where we built an altar, explored what we can learn from scarred saguaros, and how poetry awakens us to contemplative wonder. Caravans includes responses to our Fire and Light podcast, which we launched in January. If...
Our December 2022 Caravans newsletter is now available here. Catch up on our fruitful autumn and the vision behind our new web sites. We offer a lovely...
We're delighted to present our Summer 2022 Caravans, which includes an invitation to join Tessa at The Women Mystics School. You'll also read a new expression of our...
Our Summer 2021 Caravans includes reflections on poetry and the pandemic and introduces Fr. Dave’s recent posts on racial...