pat's blog

I’ve recently been reading (or rather listening to as I work) the book Wintering by Katherine May.  Audible’s description is that it is about the power of rest and retreat in difficult times.  It struck me as quite appropriate for this beginning of the third year of our pandemic, not to mention for a January day, and it is the first book in my memory where I have regularly turned back to re-read chapters and commit them to my heart. 

We all need a break now and then and a chance to reconnect with our closest friends.  When I set out to see my best friends, I usually plan on a quiet, relaxing time around the patio, maybe with a little wine, but definitely no surprises or new experiences.  I just want time to be quiet and laugh with my friends.

There’s a line in the John Denver song “Rocky Mountain High” that says he was “…coming home to a place he’d never been before…”.  Although John was famously talking about Colorado and not Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, recent visitors to the Osceola Mill House can now claim that line as their own as well.