This week we are pleased to welcome back Mark Burrows

He will be focusing on Rilke’s later poems, inviting participants to consider how we might answer the poet’s call to “do the heart-work with the images [we] hold within us,” coming to see that “the world, the more we observe it, wants to flourish in love.” 

What this can mean calls us into the deep of our own lives, suggesting what it might mean to dare transformation in our lives. We will also consider short excerpts from Rilke’s remarkable letters to augment our work with the poems. Retreatants will be invited to keep a journal in the form of letters written to friends—an old fashioned soul/art that needs reviving in our times.