The Haven

My dear Friends
I would like to tell you a little more about The Haven, the flat in which I live and which is the headquarters of The Little Sisters of Joy. It is a ground floor flat with a garden, in which I planted a silver birch tree, when I moved in there five and a half years ago. You can see me in my little flat in the picture on the bottom of the Blog.

I live in what I guess you would call a working class neighbourhood, althoug there is quite a lot of mixed housing; anyhow the people don't have too many luxuries. There is a good community spirit, and we have shops and a local library, which sometimes saves the need to go into town. Which I like doing though and by bus it only takes around 20 minutes to the centre of Cambridge.

The flat can be hard to find-when they built them around 30 years ago thy devised all kinds of weird and wonderful paths and you can get lost (which is why mobile phones can be so handy!) Despite occasional neighbour problems in the past, I get a lot of peace and solitude and it is a good place to rest. And it is good to struggle with everyone else in the day to day problems, financial and otherwise.

I moved in on 8th August 2003, birthday of Our Lady and the beginning of the liturgical year in the Orthodox calendar, so very auspicious! Being ground floor, I can keep nocturnal habits and pace around or quietly write and not disturb anyone. The painting you see on the wall of my flat is a famous view in Ely, which is close to Cambridge and I have icons and many other little things. It is a nice environment to do Yoga!

So this has been a little taste of where I live.
Love and Shalom
Sister Gila