Young Friends and Older Friends from Fort Collins spent August 8 - 10 gathered beside the Poudre River. The river was running cold and swift. The rain fell occasionally, When that happened, we gathered in the large building whose stones were set by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s. The building has one of those fireplaces you can sit in. We cooked; we ate; we talked; and we gathered on Sunday for silent worship in the sweet fresh air.
This was our fifth year to gather on the Poudre. Over time, the Friends who come have changed; the numbers vary from year to year; the children grow older; the old have more difficulty sleeping on the ground (thank goodness for air mattresses). But the sense is the same: to gather as a Friends community by the river that gives life to our community and to share time together, time being the only thing that we have...and that being so fleeting.
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