Happy Solstice! Hope this finds the whole tribe of queer Quakers cozy and well, minding Light, and raising requisite amounts of hell as lead. M & I are about to take a break from heavy work schedules to visit his family and rest from a year of too much work. Recent holiday times of dinner […]
Feb 11-13 Ottawa Meeting Annual Retreat Ottawa Ontario Feb 25-27 QLSP Guilford College, SEX Healing Greensboro, NC March 5 Friends Mtg of Cambridge Quaker Studies Wellesley, MA March 18-20 Fredrick Meeting Annual Meeting Retreat Fredrick, MD April 15-17 Friends World Committee for Consultation Tempe, AZ April 25 School 4 Intnl Training Healing from Trauma Brattleboro, […]
I never thought of dangly earrings as life-saving, but maybe I just don’t get out enough. In Vermont there was a trans woman who was burned out of her home a few years back, her family was involved in the arson. She fled and we are poorer for her absence. Maybe safety is part illusion. […]
I agree with Janice that it’s important that we connect with neighbors and know our capacities. Winter comes soon. The end of oil approaches also. And political stability is not what it used to be abroad or here at home. Along with attending to local response, I think we all have a spiritual obligation to […]
Part 1: The Talk Part 2: Q&A
Marshall and I got away for a few days to Provincetown on Cape Cod this weekend. So good to get away from the desk, work travel, deadlines, and schedules. I’ve been going to P-town since I was first there with friends from high school about 1971. Hard to remember myself as not out yet, my […]
Marshall and I have used husband since before we were married, we met in 86. Yes, you get to use the words you like as culture is changing around this and you get to teach people, like it or lump it. Mostly, I find myself saying this as a normal use of terms and then […]
Today one of our great old Quaker ladies in the neighborhood celebrated turning 80. Today one of our great older gents told me he had stage 4 cancer and didn’t know what to expect. Today another great old Quaker lady in the neighborhood near 90 is deciding about whether to stop driving. Each is in […]
The spiritual consequences of secrets are sudden potholes in integrity, surprises, and struggles to keep a secret hidden rather than open and exposed to wonder- wonder being the most basic posture of spiritual life. Always, certain people will choose to be with something so challenging, to wash and heal the culture and individuals. And knowing […]
Dear Friends, I believe the time has come for Quakers to create a conference on torture. Increasingly, there are corners without Light in American culture and places of American domination where there is no longer simply the threat of abduction, imprisonment or death, but also the likelihood that this includes torture. This calculated brutality has […]