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Author: John Calvi
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The 29th Beethoven Letter
Dear Friends, A new adventure has taken me. My years are full of invitations to teach and touch. Once in a while the schedule gets thin and I know some new arrangement is being made. A light schedule in 1990 allowed me rest at Pendle Hill. In 2008 I was able to celebrate 25 years […]
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The Future Work of Quakers
Dear All, Quakers have a grand history of being some of the first people to carry water to put on the fire of a social crisis: Margaret Fell going into prison to care for prisoners and their children in the 1600’s, some few of us working the underground railroad in the 1800’s and later helping […]
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2012 Calendar
Feb 4 Quaker Studies Goodness Wellesley Mtg Wellesley, MA March 30 Friends in Need Williston VT April 29 Doylestown Friends Meeting QUIT Update Doylestown, PA MAY 10-13 QUAKERS UNITED IN PUBLISHING QUIP PENDLE HILL MAY 14-17 BOOK WORK WITH SHELLY ANGEL AT PENDLE HILL May 18 – 20 Pendle Hill Goodness workshop Wallingford PA June […]
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Year-End Letter 2012
Dear Friends, I’ve recently returned from my final travel work for the year. I taught in 7 states to 14 groups. It’s been a wonderful time of teaching healing from trauma, avoiding burnout for caregivers, and updates on American torture and the Quaker work to end it. This is my 30th year of traveling and teaching as a […]
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2012 Fall Travel Work Calendar
Here are my last teaching engagements for 2012.Hoping I will see some of you where I’m teaching- John’s Travel Work Fall Calendar 2012 Oct 16 – 22 Shelly Angel in Putney to edit my book, preparing for publishing October 24 Dominican University Gender Studies San Raphael CA October 25 Grass Valley Friends Mtg & Woolman Semester School Grass […]
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The 28th Beethoven Letter
Dear Friends, Thirty years ago a young woman climbed on to my massage table with a nervous condition doctors were unable to name. My hands became quite warm and she became much better after recalling an earlier abduction, rape, and torture. That brief session 30 years ago was the beginning of a life’s work as […]
There are sweet parts of my life that I am grateful for. Sweet parts I didn’t expect and couldn’t have imagined along all these long decades of living. There’s our little house perched on a hillside facing the Sun each day. There’s my work that has been a great teacher and constant source of wondering […]
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Goodness Workshop Feb 4 Wellesley MA
Dear All, An invitation to a workshop I’ll offer next month. Thanks, John Goodness with John Calvi A One day Workshop at Wellesley Friends Meeting Saturday February 4, 9:30 – 3:30 This day will include simple energy work for healing, a life chart to explore lessons thus far, and deep relaxation for cleansing. That’s how we […]
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Still Melvin
Out of the blue comes email from my old high school friend, Melvin Ash. I haven’t seen him in decades. We were the Viet Nam Moratorium Committee of 1970 in our little New England town of 3,000 people. We held a peace rally after school- 10 people came. We had a candlelight march ending with […]