Marshall and I have just read a very wonderful book we’d like you all to know about. The Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me is the new first novel of our dear friend Suzanne Kingsbury just out by Scribner. It is a story of true love of young adults, race, coming of age and unfolding into […]
It is time to lock up the children. Once again, to keep them safe and at home, we must lock them up. I didn’t think the time would come so soon again but here is it. There is a bill before congress to reinstate the draft. Every late teenage boy will be in danger of […]
Happy Solstice everybody. Hope this finds us all cozy with what we need. I know there are these moments of contentment, calm, and peace that seem to get surrounded by noise, pain, and confusion. I find myself hoping, as I do so often in prayers, that everyone in pain, everyone having a hard time getting […]
Feb 2 VT Community Action Stress reduction Randolph, VT February 16-19 Friends for Lesbian & Gay Concern Philadelphia, PA Feb 23-25 Powell House Northeast Quaker Healers Old Chatham, NY March 11 VT Ethics Network & Brattleboro Hospital Brattleboro, VT April 6-8 Quaker Peace Round Table- workshops State College, PA April 28 VT People w/AIDS […]
Late night Thanksgiving eve and the frosty air is chilling the moonlit night. Marshall and John Meyer are hard at work in the kitchen making pumpkin and apple pies for tomorrow, having already pickled onions, braised cabbage, sauced cranberries, and butterflied and brined a huge turkey. I’ve set a table for six over huge plywood […]
I think you are very brave to speak your truth so completely. Yes, our first care must always be for ourselves. And then, as we feel able, to care for others. This has more wisdom than all other theology. I also think it’s very true that we are activists in a wide variation of ways. […]
Feb 2/9/16/23 Putney Friends Mtg Life Wounds Putney, VT Mar 11 VT Freedom to Marry- Surviving Hate Speech S Royalton, VT Mar 24-25 Chrysalis Spiritual Disciplines Avoid Burnout Richmond VA Mar 26 Richmond Friends Meeting- journal reading. Richmond, VA Apr 14 Friends in need. Boston, MA Apr 22 Friends Peace Team- Burundi Trauma Ctr- […]
May 1988 – August 1990 In May 1988, I went to downtown Washington D. C. to a church basement and began doing work with women who had been tortured in the prisons of El Salvador. They are founders of Comadres, mothers and wives of the disappeared. This is when I would like my life to […]
The most sure way to get yourself into trouble is to offer to be of help. It works most of the time. It’s the kind of trouble that teaches the essences of spiritual life and cannot be replaced by reading or prayer. And the more desire you have to serve, the bigger the trouble you […]
My education on healing from trauma is an incomplete, ongoing work which I find continually fascinating and always best suited to wondering rather than collecting hard facts. There are so many parts to consider: life itself hurts; trouble must not only be survived, but learned about; the world seems to know no bounds in its […]