At the end of September, thirty CIE members gathered at Angels Rest in West Leyden Massachusetts for the 44th annual CIE retreat. The theme of the retreat was "Learning about the CIE Community." The activities focused on sharing skills and learning goals among current members, discovering more about current field projects at CIE, and understanding and living with the very diverse cultural composition of CIE. For the second year in a row, it was damp - it poured heavily for the first day- but inside our spirits were high! For the second time in decades we had to take the group picture inside!