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Church of the Wild gathering

Sun, Jan 26

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Hone Quarry Campground

We will be paying attention to landscapes, both inner and outer. Landscapes are not simply backdrops for human activity, or pretty things to behold. Landscapes are alive, even when they seem most quiet and inactive, and they hold sacred presence.

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Church of the Wild gathering
Church of the Wild gathering

Time & Location

Jan 26, 2020, 2:00 PM – 3:40 PM

Hone Quarry Campground, Hone Quarry Rd, Dayton, VA 22821, USA

About the Event

We will gather in the cold and silent forest around a fire to listen into the still landscape of winter. Contrary to what we've been taught by Western culture, landscapes are not simply backdrops for human activity, or pretty things to behold. Landscapes are alive, even when they seem most quiet and inactive, and they hold sacred presence. The culture of landscape is grounded in stillness and silence - both the landscapes around us and within us. As John O'Donohue says, "Landscape is absolutely there. Ancient, it was always there. Its meditative stillness is vast and silent." Yet they are alive in a sense that most of us do not notice with our external senses, with specific texture and spirit that we can tune into.

We may meet at the campground around the fire, or in the shelter at the picnic area with the stone fireplace. If you have…

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Contact

​540.405.9201

svchurchofthewild@gmail.com

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With respect, acknowledgment, and love, we gather on the land of the Eastern Siouan-speaking ancestors of the Monacan Nation and Manahoac peoples, and of the Iroquoian speakers and of the Central Algonquian language speakers.

Chesapeake Bay / Shenandoah River / North River Watershed
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