FULL CIRCLE FOCUS 2025-2026
When you have uncertainties, you have possibility. When you have 100% certainty, then you are on one road and one that has no exit to get off.
An Interview with Steven Petrow,
“Making Joy Our Life’s Companion” LCWR Occasional Papers, Summer 2025
When darkness falls, beauty is lit from within.
John O’Donohue
To Bless the Space Between Us, 2008
The light we gain in darkness is the awareness that, however bleak the place of darkness was for us, we did not die there. We know now that life begins again on the other side of the darkness. Another life. A new life. After the death, the loss, the rejection, the failure, life does go on. Differently, but on. Having been sunk into the cold night of black despair—and having survived it—we rise to new light, calm and clear and confident that what will be will be enough for us.
Joan Chittister, OSB
Between the Dark and the Daylight: Embracing the Contradictions of Life, 2015
NEW PROGRAMS ANNOUNCED FOR FALL 2025 TO SUMMER 2026
Learn more about Seasonal Celebrations, Programs and new Conversation Gatherings at Full Circle.
NEW NATURE PRESERVE NAMED FOR FULL CIRCLE
Dec. 3, 2022 Thumb Land Conservancy preserves 8.5 acres of forested land in Kimball Township, St. Clair County.
GRANT NEWS
The Bioregion Reparation Fund awarded three grants in 2024. Two December grants helped support projects of Friends of the St. Clair River. A March grant was awarded to Camp Cavell Conservancy's Building Environmental Champions program.
Learn more about these and other BRF projects.
May 17, 2022: Dan Rhein and Sr. Concepcion Gonzalez enjoy a spring visit to the Bidwell Sanctuary in Burtchville Township, Michigan.
GUIDING BELIEFS
- The Earth Community is an interconnected web of life.
- Life within the web is sustained by diversity.
- Every creature in the web deserves respect.
- Justice and peace are integral to the life of the web.
- Compassion toward all leads to healing and reconciliation.
- Creation tends toward communion whose ultimate expression is love.
Bioregion Reparation Fund to continue the legacy
Full Circle has created a new fund with the Community Foundation of St. Clair County to continue the legacy of love and concern for the integrity of the natural world.
Learn more