ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT TOUR
June 18-25, 2009

COMPASS POINTS:
SETTING DIRECTION FOR A FUTURE LIFE

PHOTO SLIDESHOW

Join David Whyte in a small intimate group of 18-20 for a week long sojourn in an ancient village just outside the rugged beauties of the English Lake District. The accommodation is a manor house nestled in the foothills of the North Pennines, one of 40 classified areas of outstanding natural beauty in England and Wales. This will be a time to deepen your commitment to the direction your professional or artistic life is taking, or loose it toward a new direction. For further inspiration we will spend every afternoon amid the mountains and lakes that surround us, walking the hills and arriving at small pubs and hostelries for the evening meal. David will lead the morning sessions, bringing poetry to bear on the insights he has gained through twenty years of examining the necessities of work, career and relationship.

Please feel free to download the brochure, below, for more information, or contact Julie by telephone 360.221.1324 or e-mail.

Cost: $2995.

To apply for the trip, please download and complete the application and health & fitness questionnaire and mail them, together with the $900 deposit, to Julie Quiring, Many Rivers, PO Box 868, Langley, WA 98260

Lake District Application 2009
Lake District Health & Fitness Form 2009
Lake District Brochure 2009

EASTER MORNING IN WALES

A garden inside me, unknown, secret,

neglected for years,

the layers of its soil deep and thick.

Trees in the corners with branching arms

and the tangled briars like broken nets.

Sunrise through the misted orchard,

morning sun turns silver on the pointed twigs.

I have woken from the sleep of ages

and I am not sure

if I am really seeing, or dreaming,

or simply astonished

walking toward sunrise

to have sumbled into the garden

where the stone was rolled from

the tomb of longing.

 - from "Where Many Rivers Meet"