Late yesterday afternoon I arrived in Unity Village, outside of Lee's Summit, Missouri - about 15 miles southeast of Kansas City. I have my own little cottage and access to the villages' inground pool, library, nature trails, 2 lakes, chapels, bookstore, laundromat, and labyrinth. Every day there is a Silent Unity prayer service at 11 am and of course a Sunday service at 10:30. For the next 5 days I plan to remain silent as much possible, meditating, knitting, reading and walking the trails. This is a much needed respite from visiting and interviewing people. Time for integration and rest. While I have loved being with everyone my introverted self is feeling a wee bit overwhelmed and needs time to regroup/recharge.
I may even spend most of day in bed....
I have not taken much of an opportunity to take pictures while on my travels and I must certainly motivate myself to do that now as the village is quite striking in its mediterrain architecture, rose gardens, chapels, labyrinth and groves. I haven't yet gone to visit the two lakes because blessedly last night and today have been raining - much needed in this area (I'm hoping that Kansas and Texas got the rain, too!) So here I sit in the bookstore cafe (they serve Starbucks coffee!)enjoying a music CD by Karen Drucker and the visuals of all the books and gifts in front of me -
one of my favorite places in the world.
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