Coming in from the QUIT conference which was wonderful which was soured a bit with 2 hard days of driving with too much traffic and heavy rains, very dangerous in spots, I come back into the dark bedroom of the 80 year old man slowly giving over his body to illness and getting ready to […]
Turned 55 today- (somebody say, “Babyface!”). All yesterday sat around with cousins I grew up with listening and telling old family stories, much laughing. Today finishing up sending out 23rd Beethoven Letter and spent some time in quiet stillness and gratitude at the bedside of an old friend slowly dieing as he slept a deep […]
I was 16 years old when I attended meeting for worship for the first time. Also present were a woman marathon runner, several professors, an ancient colonel from World War I, and a man who spoke Navajo and his poet wife. Not all were vegetarians or tax resisters. Not all the men had been conscientious […]
Saw two deer streaking across the rainy field this evening So lovely in the green grass. Last hunk of snow in the driveway is nearly gone Daffs in the field too. There is a new cookie by Paul Newman’s company- three flavors of Hermits Marshall and I deeply prefer the Cinnamon over Original or Ginger. […]
Well, I just want to say that if by chance you did happen to pull an old circular saw out of the rubbish that your departing landlord had discarded when he sold you the house and you found this saw to be only a little dangerous because of this and that wear and tear and […]
Notes on the Road-Old Chatham Meeting in NY is looking for a place to build a meetinghouse on the grounds of Powell House, the Quaker Conference Center- a lovely old mansion out in the expensive sticks of Columbia County south of Albany. When I think of all hell braking loose as Friends try to choose […]
Feb 22-24 Guilford College, Sex QLSP Greensboro, NC Feb 24-26 QUIT planning June Conf Guilford College Greensboro, NC March 5 Kendal Monthly Meeting- QUIT Kennett Square, PA March 6-9 Pendle Hill, Restoration workshop Wallingford, PA March 14 Hanover Friends Meeting QUIT Update Hanover, NH April 2 Morningside Friends Mtg QUIT Riverside Church NY […]
I’m grateful to be home after my last work trip this year and grateful that I arrived home in time to be of help with neighbors to a dying Malamute dog who we all agreed is the nicest person in the neighborhood. I’m grateful to begin a time of rest and to be on my […]
An amazing moment of wonder and contrition for me one afternoon meeting for worship- the vocal ministry was sloppy, the kind of dithering in therapy of the seeker refusing to see the obvious. This had put me in a curmudgeonly mood thinking, as Bill Kreidler often would reflect, if you can’t improve on the silence, […]
How is it that some days just become tender as the messages come from here and there with this one having surgery and that one broken hearted and this one with some old loneliness and another with no mercy for herself? And maybe partly I had a dream upon waking that puts me in the […]