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July 2010 April 2010 February 2010 If you would like to learn firsthand more about Israel, Palestine, and the quest for a just peace there, consider joining Sabeel Colorado's annual two-week fact-finding trip, May 15-29. If you live in the Denver-Boulder neighborhood, mark your calendar for April 16-17, when Tessa Bielecki gives a workshop on "Sand and Sea: from the Desert to the Celts," sponsored by Contemplative Outreach of Boulder. January 2010
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| Past Events December 2009 Meet author, teacher, and translator Mirabai Starr, who has introduced a new generation to the writings of Spanish mystics St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross. November 2009 Tessa also reviews Jerusalem Sky: Stars, Crosses, and Crescents, by Mark Podwal: an excellent holiday gift book for children. Fr. Dave Denny reviews Holy Land: Common Ground, a film by Edward Gaffney and Alicia Dwyer documenting heartbreaking yet hopeful encounters between grieving Israelis and Palestinians. July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 Fr. Dave Denny reviews Belden Lane’s The Solace of Fierce Landscapes, an excellent book to read before the pilgrimage-retreat, or pack it and read it during your “desert oasis” time in New Mexico! March 2009
Coming soon: Plan to attend our first Desert Foundation Retreat at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico, August 31-September 5, 2009! Subscribe to Desert Tracks and be among the first to learn details. December 2008 September 2008 If you wish to observe present conditions in Israel and Palestine firsthand, join friends of Sabeel–Colorado June 14-28, 2008 for Seeking Understanding in Israel/Palestine: A Two-Week Fact-Finding Trip. The Desert Foundation’s Fr. Dave Denny and Tessa Bielecki participated
in Sabeel’s 2007 trip. We experienced the heroism of Israeli and
Palestinian peacemakers and developed a deep bond with our fellow voyagers.
Read Tessa Bielecki’s account of the trip, “Jerusalem,
Jerusalem …” and share her experience of the meaning of
the trip and the human encounters that left her “profoundly changed.” Join Desert Foundation co-founder Tessa Bielecki June 6-8 at Shambhala Mountain Center in Red Feather Lakes, Colorado for Walking the Tightrope: Navigating Life’s Tensions Creatively. Work and play, service and celebration, solitude and community—explore how to balance the polarities in our lives by looking at the lives of the Christian mystics. Visit Shambhala Mountain Center’s web site for more information. February 2008 Fr. Dave Denny reviews Three Cups of Tea, the tale of an American mountaineer’s mission to promote peace through education in Pakistan and Afghanistan. December 2007 During the winter months, many of us take time to look back at the previous year and forward to the next. Follow Tessa Bielecki through the four seasons as she ponders the meaning and beauty of “our outer landscape and inner soulscape.” Fr. Dave Denny welcomes you to his hermitage and reflects on the Abrahamic art that surrounds him in the Tent of Meeting. Our latest Walls and Bridges feature introduces Amal Elsana Alh'jooj, an Israeli Bedouin feminist developing partnerships in Israel between Jews and Muslims. November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 Fr. Dave Denny was honored as “artist of the month” by “Image Update” and Image Journal’s web site. “Father Dave demonstrates in his life and writing that a call to the desert is also a call to the world,” writes Image’s managing editor Mary Kenagy, “that an earnest seeking after God in silence and emptiness is the natural corollary to a profound, intimate love of the created order, and that beautiful work of human hands is not an impediment to the soul's stillness but a pathway to it.” September 15 is the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. One of Fr. Dave’s early poems is based on a fourteenth century devotion to the Sorrowful Mother. To aid your reflections on the feast, you may wish to read his poem, “The Seven Sorrows of Mary,” with art by Santa Fe santera Arlene Cisneros Sena.
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