January & February Writing retreat. Claremont, CA February 24 Friends in need Las Vegas NV March 27 NEYM Pastoral Care COVID-19 YouTube April 6 Pendle Hill Love in the Time of Coronavirus YouTube April 20 Pendle Hill Staying Centered Amidst Uncertainty online May 9 & 10 Cambridge Friends Mtg workshop Cambridge MA online June 28 […]
Dear Friends, Well, this has turned out to be a year of stunning revelations and struggles. I began with a writing retreat in Southern California that became a race across country as the pandemic set in. Home by end of March, Marshall and I quarantined and adjusted to the new norms – masked ventures to […]
THIS GUITAR IS NOW SOLD. BIDDING HAS ENDED. THANKS! PS Bidding is now up to $2,500, hoping to close in the next 10 days or so. PS Martin Guitar serial # 372620 I bought this wonderful instrument brand new with the Martin hardshell case in May 1976. This is the Martin model that has been […]
by Jean Schweitzer & John Calvi Above your head there is a ring of Light, your halo, your crown chakra Outside the ring of Light over to one side there is a ring of fire Take one flame out of the ring of fire and place it in the center of the ring of Light […]
I am missing in person teaching. I’ve spent nearly four decades on the road teaching in most of the US. I miss the open road. Now I am home all the time with only short trips into town for groceries. A particular workshop scene plays in me, a refrain of many times in many places. I’ll begin teaching a […]
A hundred years ago, back in the 90’s, a client would call for comfort. She was a ritual abuse survivor, survived torture as a young child in a cult, and as a result had multiple personalities. She would call and we’d talk a bit, then she’d say- The little ones, the much younger personalities who didn’t […]
It was in Toronto sometime in the 1990’s. A refugee committee of several Catholics had brought together both the staff and the refugees who had been tortured for me to lay hands on. We were in the meeting room of the Toronto Quaker meetinghouse. It was a large group and we sat in silence a long time as […]
I was born in a time and a place that is gone now. It was an enclave where the road became dirt and my family owned the land tamed for farming. All the surrounding land was forest, miles of it. There were no houses close together and the houses only held family. I remember some weddings of aunts and […]
Dear Friends, Looking back over 38 years of travel work, I’ve had few interruptions. Beginning with work in the rape crisis in 1982 and AIDS pandemic in 1983, I’ve been able to move and learn as necessity demanded and keep going. There has been a car emergency here and there, a few sick days, and […]
I’m standing in line, 6’ apart, outside our food coop. This store is only allowing 50 people in at a time – when someone comes out, someone else can go in. The line is moving very slowly. The woman in from of me is much older. I can feel she is now in pain for standing so long, her […]