Water, forest, history, and community
I regularly retreat to the Agape Community and the nearby Quabbin Reservoir in Central Massachusetts. I join the Christian prayer life of Agape and the forest and waters of Quabbin. Both nourish, heal, inspire. Agape is a lay faith-based nonviolent activist community, grounded in interfaith practice, rooted in Jesus, whose co-founders are Catholic. Agape welcomes all: faiths, genders, nonviolent peacemakers, climate activists and sustainability seekers. Quabbin reservoir, one of the largest reservoirs in North America, supplies water to most of Metro Boston. To construct the reservoir in the 1930's, some 2,700 people were removed and 7,000 bodies disinterred and reburied. Before white settlement, Pocumtuck/Nipmuck Indians lived here. In their language, Quabbin is thought to mean many waters.
