August
24, 2010
The Brickwalk

Our
monastery property has recently been updated and improved with repaved
parking lot and widened driveway. These changes are quite noticeable,
but
one recent transformation is more dramatic, but less
visible. For years the walkway in front of the monastery in
the corridor was riddled
with cracks and inconsistencies that made it not only less attractive,
but also difficult to shovel in the winter. With the
generous help of materials and labor, a good friend of the community
offered not only to make the path smoother, but more durable and even
more attractive. Originally, the walk in the corridor was
concrete, so with time it was bound to crack under the dramatic changes
of Michigan weather. He proposed to replace the concrete with
bricks. So the work began in late July and just before the
celebration of our 50th anniversary, all the bricks were placed.
Instead of the plain look of a normally paved walkway, our corridor is
adorned with multicolor bricks that will smoothly conform with the
surface of the ground when temperatures change allowing a snow blower
or a shovel to be guided over the path with less effort.
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