Well friends--it's truly, truly, truly almost here now after one last (we hope!) postponement. 

The floors are all down, the doors are installed, the kitchen is in, the lovely stone counters are in place. A lovely shoji screen divider between the kitchen and Cloud Hall was even installed recently. 

Our temple is gorgeous and only getting nicer.

But there is enough construction work left to do that it's not quite time to start sitting at Mountains and Waters Temple. 

Our lastest, and we really think final, forecast is that we'll start our weekly evening sits at Sansui-ji on Wednesday August 6th (6:30pm-8:30pm). At this point we'll also have our more immersive Zoom-in system for those who would like to join us that way.

For the month of July we'll continue to sit at the church of our friends at Bellingham Unitarian for one last month of Thursdays (7pm-9pm). 

And yes, you can still help:

• Attend the Late June Work Party this Sunday, June 29th.
• Reach out to the Design & Build Committee (Nomon Tim, Bob Rose, and Talus) if you have mid-week time and skills to share.
• Watch our website and email space for more updates.
• Have one more donation in you? We are needing to dip some into the reserves and appreciate help of any amount.

And do add to your calendar: 

Opening Ceremony at Sansui-ji temple "Opening the Eyes of the Buddha". Saturday August 30th. 3pm optional work party, 5pm potluck dinner, 7pm ceremony and meditation.

Lastly, a bow of gratitude to the Bellingham Insight Meditation Society (BIMS). In addition to being again our keystone meditation tenant at the new building, BIMS recently shared that they'll be making a significant donation to help us finish up the project. Thanks BIMS!