Winding Down

I second Steve's feelings about yesterday. I was also at the same orphanage - and was totally taken aback by the sights, sounds and smells. Besides being difficult to see, it brought up all kinds of realizations - like the fact that I would have a very, very hard time going there everyday to work. I can't even imagine the difficulty of that. It's rather humbling. We had a chance to process a little bit last night with the people in our house - everyone shared their own experiences. It helped a little to hear the others express a lot of the same feelings that I had.
Today was "crunch time" and it will continue tomorrow. We are winding down, and thus need to synthesize and consolidate all that we've been discussing. This is hard work -first, we had 3 hours of silence to do a personal synthesizing. These are the materials we've been working with - I found a nice spot outside to go through everything. But my head was spinning - so much to think about!

The we got into our small groups. In a small group of eight people, trying to come up with a consensus on what the priorities should be is difficult enough. But then we moved into the larger group and attempted the same thing. The group leaders had to meet to present their own group's list...and now a committee of representatives is meeting, probably well into the night, to put it all into a form upon which we can work tomorrow. Our question today - what are your dreams for Marist 2030? What will it look like, what will it mean to be Marist in the future? Share your thoughts!