Raiding the Holden Library, or Adventures on a Day Off

Hello all - 


Today, on my first day off, I decided to raid the Holden Library. Located across from where we have winter/spring worship, it's a nice quiet space filled with (a rough guess) around 2,000 or so items - general collection, magazines, and a children's corner. Being a Lutheran retreat center, much of the material is religious, which I appreciate - I picked up Karl Barth's "Humanity of God", as well as a few poetry books. 

The Holden Library

 They say as an unofficial rule you're only allowed fifty books at a time from the library. I think I'll sufficiently get to that number, hahaha. 


Oh! And another exciting note! Holden Village owns two cellos - and I was able to pick one up today! I'm going to talk to the Village Musician about getting a string group together and playing for Vespers sometime this summer. 

The Fireside Room, where winter worship is held

Other than that, this day was pretty relaxing - slept in until about 10:00, had lunch at around 12:00. Today was Hunger Awareness Day, so all that was available for lunch was rice and water - it was an awakening to realize how little some people do have. 

Deer on the lawn

Oh! Another neat fact. Tonight, as I was walking to the dining hall after Vespers, I stopped abruptly as I noticed four deer literally only ten feet away from me. The animals here are quite tame, and don't think much of us Villagers, until you get really, really close to them. Even then, they don't run off. I was able to get a shot of three of them as they sauntered off the grass onto Chalet Lane. Pretty neat! 

More of the Holden Library

Well, that'll be all for now. Hope everything is well with all my readers. 

From the Village - 

Dean