It's obvious that I've been a little tightly wound with trying to wrap things up at work and struggling with the frustration of doing my job of fundraising exceedingly well, on the one hand, and having an enormously difficult time as a manager, on the other hand. As I'm focused on transferring knowledge to people and wrapping things up, it has become a little too easy to be wrapped up in the minutiae of difficult interpersonal relationships and lose sight of the bigger picture.
So, I took a personal day and went on a silent retreat yesterday. The beauty of the silent retreat is the communal silence and the concentrated focus on being in silence. I went to a Protestant retreat center in Gaithersburg called Dayspring. It is a free place and open to anyone who is looking to retreat -- regardless of faith, etc. I particularly enjoyed the labyrinth made of rocks as a tool to focus meditation:
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