New to our shelves, in 'The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation,' Raquel Willis writes about her story as a Black transgender woman from the South and her work towards collective liberation. "Revolution isn't a singular event but a continuously unfolding phenomenon. The transformational energy we feel during seismic events doesn't dissipate. It stays with us, waiting to be reactivated so we can transform the institutions around us... So, let everything you feel be fertilizer: anguish, anxiety, fear, grief, joy, love, mourning, rage, sorrow, wanting, yearning. And let us not be distracted or deterred from our duties in the garden of liberation: honoring our place, taking the risk to bloom again and again, planting seeds of resilience, and leaving the soil richer for generations to come." (fb)

🎉🎉 We did it!!! Our Spring Into Summer Matching Campaign has officially wrapped up and we are so incredible grateful to the generous community that surrounds us. Our goal was to reach $10,000 and in the final stretch you showed out and helped us raise $11,474! With matching gifts from members of Siena Retreat Center’s Board of Directors, Development Committee, and other leaders that means we will add over $20,000 to sustain our mission of renewing lives and building a more just and compassionate world! We absolutely cannot thank you enough! 💙🙏 (fb)