The dahlias have arrived. Greetings to you for the 4th of July. After a wild fireworks display on the 3rd, there is always a tiny yet wonder-filled mini parade at Alderbrook Resort on the 4th complete with everyone and their dogs decorated with red, white and blue. This blog will focus more on [...]
Greetings on this summer day. The last few weeks at HH have been an intense focus on recruitment for a new permanent ED. Excellent candidates are showing up…the HH Board will select a finalist by next week. A future blog will highlight the new ED. In this blog, I would like to tell a little [...]
Greetings to each of you. This blog will focus on the kitchen-- the heart of our HH home and the gardens. Two wonderful “weavers” Ann Lovejoy and Deanna Minich who contributed their expertise in enhancing nourishment of the Body and the Spirit via Harmony Hill’s Kitchen and gardens will be featured. I knew from [...]
Greetings again on a wonderful almost Summer day. This blog will share a little about my own journey with cancer, a few comments about the evolution of the gardens, and will feature another extraordinary CR Alum Candy Schmidt. Some of this blog is from excerpts from One Hill, Many Voices, Stories of Hope and Healing [...]
Greetings again on another wonderful spring day. We just completed our 251st Cancer retreat and it was a stellar gathering! In this blog, I’ll feature a special CR alum (Barbara Riefle) after sharing a little more about the early days of the campus as it began to unfold. In an earlier blog, I shared about the [...]
Greetings again on a beautiful spring day. Here are a couple of paragraphs about our Cancer Retreats from One Hill, Many Voices Stories of Hope and Healing elegantly written by Donna Cameron and Kristen Leathers in 2011: “Harmony Hill’s story continues to grow with each new story, forged by the desire to live wholeheartedly, of [...]
Andy Bell and Gail Baker Spring is unfolding now at HH with a garden volunteer party this weekend to get our hundreds of zinnias, dahlias and other sweet flower starts planted in the gardens. Lois Oberg HH masterful organic gardener has brought great expertise to the Hill. Prior to our [...]
Greetings again on a beautiful spring day. Few more stories here about the early days and the startup of the Cancer Retreats. Beth Fisher and Family There were several people at our very first retreat in early 1994 that became on-going “weavers” in the unfolding of the CRs. Beth Fischer was one who [...]
Bill Reynolds and crew building HH Kitchen addition in 1993 Nourishing the Body, Mind, and Spirit: Harmony Hill’s Kitchen In the early days of HH our kitchen was very small and I did much of the cooking. Our beloved elder, Elaine Cook, was passionate about delicious healthy food. She shared many wonderful recipes [...]
Dear Friends—here are more stories on the early days of Harmony Hill (HH), to be followed soon by how the Cancer Retreats began. Some of these blogs are taken from snippets of One Hill, Many Voices: Stories of Hope and Healing written by two extraordinary volunteers Kris Leathers and Donna Cameron--an incredible labor of love. [...]