This issue of Cairn is our attempt to listen carefully to that promise and its dissonance. We are not treating “life to the full” as code for comfort, success, or material abundance. Instead, we are looking for lives that seem mysteriously widened from the inside out, often in the very places where loss, limitation, or injustice have closed in. We’ll sit with refugees, recovering addicts, and returning citizens who have wrestled vitality out of circumstances designed to crush it. We’ll linger with artists, gardeners, teachers, and builders whose daily work is to coax beauty and meaning into being. We will pay attention to neighborhoods, parishes, and unlikely communities where interdependence becomes a kind of shared heartbeat. And we’ll look to the natural world to further inspire this tale as old as time.
Let this Cairn be a marker for you along the way, a reminder that even in seasons that feel stripped and bare, the invitation to life to the full is still being offered. May these words and images embolden you to protect, nurture, and share it.
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Join BitterSweet and local DC organizations for an inspiring new event series, Cairn.
Cairn is a seasonal invitation to journey deeper with BitterSweet and the questions we're asking: What’s ours to make, say, see, do in this season? What’s useful? What’s edifying and orienting? What is good? Come, we welcome your presence, voice, and perspective.
On May 7, 2026, join us for an evening event at BitterSweet HQ (3001 N St. SE, Washington, DC 20019) starting at 6:30 PM.
MAY 7, 2026
630PM — 9PM
BitterSweet HQ
3001 N St. SE,
Washington, DC 20019
*Due to limited space at our final Cairn venue there are only 60 tickets available for this event.*
This issue of Cairn is our attempt to listen carefully to that promise and its dissonance. We are not treating “life to the full” as code for comfort, success, or material abundance. Instead, we are looking for lives that seem mysteriously widened from the inside out, often in the very places where loss, limitation, or injustice have closed in. We’ll sit with refugees, recovering addicts, and returning citizens who have wrestled vitality out of circumstances designed to crush it. We’ll linger with artists, gardeners, teachers, and builders whose daily work is to coax beauty and meaning into being. We will pay attention to neighborhoods, parishes, and unlikely communities where interdependence becomes a kind of shared heartbeat. And we’ll look to the natural world to further inspire this tale as old as time.
Let this Cairn be a marker for you along the way, a reminder that even in seasons that feel stripped and bare, the invitation to life to the full is still being offered. May these words and images embolden you to protect, nurture, and share it.
—
Join BitterSweet and local DC organizations for an inspiring new event series, Cairn.
Cairn is a seasonal invitation to journey deeper with BitterSweet and the questions we're asking: What’s ours to make, say, see, do in this season? What’s useful? What’s edifying and orienting? What is good? Come, we welcome your presence, voice, and perspective.
On May 7, 2026, join us for an evening event at BitterSweet HQ (3001 N St. SE, Washington, DC 20019) starting at 6:30 PM.
MAY 7, 2026
630PM — 9PM
BitterSweet HQ
3001 N St. SE,
Washington, DC 20019
*Due to limited space at our final Cairn venue there are only 60 tickets available for this event.*
