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I'm just back from doing a silent retreat.

My husband, Jonathan and I have a kind of annual ritual where we go up to New England and

do some silence for a week or two.

Then part of our rituals we get to drive home together and share some of the openings

and insights that came out of whatever was going on, often out of difficult stuff, what

we came to realize.

And Jonathan started the sharing and he began by letting me know that he had been physically

a really rough ride and he had a clogged ear and a migraine and his sleep was disrupted.

And so I was really interested to know how this became grist for him.

And after a long pause he said, you know, this retreat really sucked.

It was very refreshing.

There was no face lift to it at all.

It was great.

As it happened, I was also sick for the whole retreat.

I had caught his flu.

And so I was in bed a lot.

And for whatever reason, it wasn't.

I was miserable physically but I actually had a, it was a very rich and juicy time of

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