catching up and remediation and medicine

i come to blog and then cut and paste and then i turn away because it always feels so daunting! funny how i'm moving forward in a world of unknowns but somehow this world of online unknowns is more challenging.....   however every day i am so amazed at the outpouring of help to make this all happen and that is why i am writing a small update here today.....

this is the side salvaged door, Joram beautifully put it in, taped for us as we made a mess of lime plaster, very small above the door you can see the tiny peice of tile that Nicole Davis helped me put in, it's from my Dad's church Transfiguration in Philadelphia which was demolished, 

on the progress and challenges of the building journey ....   here you see Nicole and Cortney who led the team of Rebecca V, Alan Shephard, Joram, Coco, Viet, on a plastering mystery color adventure. this color is green in case you can't tell. i heard that yesterday it actually looked green from far away and not blue or grey.  so, this was a learning process and experiment in lime plaster. all of this happened on the outside in one day, thanks to Alan for supplying sustenance for everyone to keep going.  

there has also been sweet details added outside by Joram, and he's started the wiring with Jarret, David and Susan Stumpf have been helping me with plumbing, and thanks to small donations adding up and people being overly generous with their time the job is moving along....  but more to do! the to do's pile up, composting toilet, privvy permits, flooring, inside windowsills.....  plumbing, solar....

the downside is there seems to be some black bales inside with a mold problem!!! this is going to take more supplies, labor, and "remediation" to fix.  at this stage it can be difficult to move into the area of remediation when the push is to move forward to a certificate of occupancy, both of these sound like bad words to me ...    ahhh! but then after 10 days of beautiful classes on the land i am again reminded of the potential of retreat, the possibility of stillness, of serving and i never give up.  i just walk around saying thank you very much for showing me this mold, i must have something to work out and i'm not going to give up.

someone told me to post a wish list of things for retreat.  i feel shy to do that but am considering it.  

the bucket list is getting shorter...  on it was visiting the jersey shore to see some family, added after the fact was a ferris wheel, pinball, skeeball, and roller coasters....  not sure about all those mental images popping up in retreat! :)

tomorrow onto doing a little water line burying on the land, picking up a shovel at will's to move gravel and then preparing for a four day weekend next week of remediation, feels like detention, trying to find some joyful effort amongst the obstacles ...   not sure if anyone reads this or gets interested in these details all feels like a map to work things out inside and out.....

on the medical front.... i'm still working, going down to 3 days to split time between building, closing down life and my job....   also on the medical front i'm working on a team with Susan Stumpf, Venerable Robbi Funck, Orit, Rene, and Aime, among us 3 Physician Assistants, One MD, One Nurse Practitioner/CMW, and Nurse....   to get systems in place for all the retreatants' well being in order to stay in retreat and meditate.

this is where we live sometimes when building and spent the last 10 days here, our friendly green hornet NON-water-proof-come-to-find-out trailer....   i love it.