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On Wholeness and Being
I felt like a journal that had been torn into a thousand pieces and thrown into the wind. This sentence from my memoir A Renaissance…
Ten Things That Rocked My World in 2016
1. Fagor Premium Electric Pressure and Rice Cooker—Cooks risotto in 6 minutes, baby back ribs in 35 minutes, black bean soup in 45 minutes, and pho…
Upon Further Consideration
My life as you and I have known it is over. My endless restlessness and questioning, my empathy and sensuality, my liberal and anarchic tendencies;…
Ten Slippery Words That Have Defined My Life, My Goals, and My Demons
In life, I have constantly found myself thinking: “We are using the same words, but do we mean the same thing?” In the field of…
What exactly is Kalien Retreat?
Days of rest and relaxation are the norm at Kalien Retreat. The 55 verdant acres of forested Appalachian Mountain foothills have been set aside for…
My Goodbye Letter — Randy Elrod
goodbye I’ve decided to say goodbye. For real. To my 51,545 followers on social networks. To put that number in perspective, it is roughly equivalent…
No Dead Space Allowed
As a young impressionable worship pastor, one of the first hard lessons I learned from my Pastor was to “fill in the dead spaces”. For…
Why Kalien? Why Now?
As I struggle mightily with the two—what seems to be—inevitable presidential candidates for the upcoming election for President of the United States, I feel a…
True Love is Rare, True Friendship is Rarer. Three Essential Qualities of A Priceless Friend.
One of the great revelations of my life is coming to full consciousness (to wholeness) by facing my contradictions, making friends with my mistakes and…
A Real-Life (But Very Short) Fairy Tale by Randy Elrod (aka Elrond) #Kalien
(with apologies to J.R.R. Tolkien and F. Scott Fitzgerald) In Two of Two Thousand, a man named Elrond dreamed of a place in the Misty…
Some Impromptu Thoughts This Snowy Day at Kalien
As I write, I’m snuggled in my artist cabin The Hawk’s Nest in the Appalachian mountains surrounded on all sides by the a snowfall that most…
Home At Last
For the past fourteen years I have located a lot of my dreams in a place to be called Kalien. Many times it felt like…
I Am Stunned By What Has Happened The Past Two Days
31 people have now given to help “Build The First Kalien Retreat Cabin.” That is not many people considering the thousands of people I have…