I am scheduled to go on a three-day silent retreat with the Jesuits today and I don’t want to go. Worse, I don’t exactly know why. I have done this twice before at the same place and found each experience valuable. After about six weeks of a full and overfull house (filled with people I love, I should add), an uninterrupted time of listening to teaching and meditating and praying should be very attractive. My tentative conclusion—arrived at after writing the last sentence—is that I want to limit my time ...