May Day Retreats

Today, instead of dancing around a Maypole or going to a protest march, I will load up the car and head down to the Coastal Retreat Center at the Isle of Palms. This week-end's adventure: cooking for the week-end, in support of a deaconess friend of mine who got a grant to create this retreat. She has a vision of a retreat before the hoopla of Mother's Day, a time to be apart together before we fall apart (she's got a snappier title that I can't remember right now).I have friends, old friends, who live in the South Carolina Lowcountry near the Isle of Palms. I thought about trying to see them during our bit of afternoon free time, but I decided not to try to see anyone. Far better to arrange a separate trip later in the summer or fall. In my free time, if there is any, I need to be grading: I have one set of grades due on Monday and another set on Tuesday.If there's any additional time, I need to remember that I do have two papers due for my Lutheran Confessions class. I keep hoping…