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Update March 1st, 2024

We are excited about all that 2024 holds. Several have requested updates on our calendar of events as well as some retreat facilitators have reached out to us. Thank you for your ongoing interest in Twinkle’s Place programming. We hope to soon have our new location and will continue to update everyone as soon as we can.

Sunday Service: Hospitality, a Pillar of Faith

Join Rev. “Twinkle” Marie Manning at the UU Church in Waterville, Maine.

Sunday, January 28th, 2024

 69 Silver Street Waterville, Maine

Time: 10:00 AM(Eastern)

Thought for contemplation:

“What if hospitality were the pillar of our Faith?” 

    ~ Rev. “Twinkle” Marie Manning

All those peaceably seeking spiritual solace are welcome!

Attend in person or Online:

https://uucwaterville.com

#LivingLifeAsAPrayer

Website Updates

NOTE from Twinkle’s Place Board of Directors: As we commence our search for an additional Twinkle’s Place location, we will be updating this website to reflect the next incarnation of Twinkle’s Place. Twinkle will continue to offer musings along with sharing some of her personal reflections and experiences. We know, based on your emails and letters, how important that has been to many of you. That said, much of our content will shift back towards promoting our upcoming events and features on our in-house guests including our resident artists and retreat and workshop facilitators both in Rockwood and at our new location as well once it is established. We look forward to finding our new location just as soon as possible and will continue to update everyone on our search progress. Thank you for your patience, and for your support especially over the past few years. We look forward to what the next year will manifest.

Be sure to check out our upcoming events at Moosehead Lake Retreats!

Four Years

It has been four years since my sister took this picture. Four years since we were called to the hospital. Four years since we prayed in desperation to Gods that not all of us believe in. Four years since we asked everyone we knew to pray with us. And, by “pray”- I mean beg, bargain and plead to any and all unseen forces that may take pity upon us and change this tragic course that was unfolding swiftly in dazed slow motion. Four years since we waited vigil by his bedside for four days for good news that would never come. Four years since we had to say goodbye to this earth angel. Four years since all our lives were devastated by the loss of Riley. Four years and the anguish still accompanies this week like an unrelenting shadow even in the noontime sun. Four years.

#WhenYourSonDies

#CherishYourLovedOnes

#EveryMomentCounts

#LifeIsPrecious

#YouHavingLivedChangedEverything

#YouHavingDiedChangedEverything

#FSeptember

#Grief

#GriefSpeaksOut

#LivingLifeAsAPrayer

Riley Dai June 9th, 1997-September 20th, 2019