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February 10, 2023, Adrian, Michigan – An Insight Meditation Retreat offering simple and profound meditation techniques is offered at Weber Retreat and Conference Center from 7:00 p.m. Friday, March 3, 2023, to 10:00 a.m. Sunday, March 5, 2023. The retreat is offered in person only.
Meditation teaches us to see life as a constantly changing process. Meditation shows us how to accept all aspects of life with less stress and more harmony. A balanced awareness grows, grounded in the present moment, and leading to a calm stillness and a growing understanding of the nature of life. Carol Blotter, the retreat leader, presents the simple and profound meditation techniques of insight, mindfulness, awareness, and loving kindness.
Carol, guiding teacher of the Chelsea (Michigan) Meditation Group, draws from dual roots in the Quaker and Buddhist traditions. She has been teaching insight meditation since 1999, leading more than 70 retreats across the United States.
Participants will be screened for COVID-19 and required to wear masks when not eating. The cost is $100 for commuters, $175 per person double occupancy, and $225 single occupancy. Registration is required and is available at www.webercenter.org; click on “programs.” Registrations may also be made by calling 517-266-4000 or emailing webercenter@adriandominicans.org. Limited scholarships are available.
Weber Center is on the campus of the Adrian Dominican Sisters’ Motherhouse, Adrian, Michigan. Traveling east on Siena Heights Drive, pass the Adrian Rea Literacy Center and turn left just before the solar panel-covered parking lot. Follow the signs to Weber Center. For information, call the Weber Center at 517-266-4000.
February 8, 2023, Adrian, Michigan – Human trafficking is a global problem that entraps an estimated 27.6 million people – but it can also be found locally, in areas such as Lenawee County, Michigan.
Sister Patricia McDonald, OP, a member of the Lenawee County Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition, conveyed that message to a gathering in the Adrian City Chambers in observance of Human Trafficking Prevention Month, observed each January.
Human trafficking victims are coerced or deceptively lured into labor trafficking in areas such as farms, salons, and restaurants and into sex trafficking, Sister Pat said. She cited statistics from the U.S. Department of defense that human trafficking generates $51 billion through forced labor and $99 billion per year through sex trafficking. Anybody can be a victim, but people who are vulnerable are especially susceptible.
Sister Pat urged the audience to be on the lookout for anything unusual and to report it to the police so that the situation can be investigated. She also encouraged people to watch out for their own mental health and to treat their children with care so that they can grow up in a healthy state of mind, less likely to be preyed upon by human traffickers.
Read more about Sister Pat’s presentation in an article in the Daily Telegram by Brad Heineman.