The 2010 Arabic Music Retreat - Getting in Gear

It's a sure sign of spring when the brochures and posters for the Arabic Music Retreat are ready to go. The brochures just came back from the printer today, and the posters, which came in last week, look great.

This year will undoubtedly be another exceptional week of intense learning, out-of-this-world music-making and fellowship. We are on Facebook too - join us. If you have questions about the Retreat, e-mail me at: kaycam@aol.com.

You can download a PDF of the poster and find registration materials too at  http://www.simonshaheen.com/. 

Letting Magic Happen

This month's Cabin Life Magazine has a short essay I wrote about entertaining guests at our little cabin in the north Maine woods. You can link to it in the title of this post, or link to it here. We are having an early spring here in Massachusetts. The big snowstorms of late February gave us only rain. The robins are singing at dawn and the bulbs are sprouting in earnest. So often we get one last snowstorm in March, as if Mother Nature is saying, "Don't forget, I'm still in charge." It doesn't feel like that will happen this year, but we'll see.