True Nature meeting tomorrow - Saturday, July 25

Dear True Nature Members,

Please join me to practice, reflect, and connect tomorrow, Saturday, July 25th, at 7 am Pacific/10 am Eastern for our monthly True Nature sitting group and sangha meeting.  This is a schedule change from our usual Sunday meeting in order to accommodate members who are travelling this month.

A new Looking Into It reflection has been uploaded to Ghost, which you can access by clicking 'Writings' from the CCE website.

Here is the Zoom link for our meeting on Sunday - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89614320213

Also a reminder that moving forward, all True Nature meeting recordings will now be posted to YouTube, and can be accessed via this Google doc. All previous subscriptions have been set to cancel at the end of their term. For monthly members, that was June 30th. For annual members, it is over the next several months, and we will send out reminder emails as your terms expire. In order to maintain your True Nature membership, you can set up a new recurring donation of any amount via Zeffy here.

Warmly,  

Marcy Crawford
Resident Teacher, CCE

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