Dear Friends, Thirty years ago I sent a letter to 100 Friends to say I was providing massage to people with AIDS and needed financial support for the work. Half of those people said – Yes! I had already been working with several women rape survivors and AIDS was a new work. I was in […]
Dear Friends, Thank you for all your good care and strong support over 2013. It’s been a very full year. I’ve been working with several people – helping some to live, helping some to die. I’ve traveled the country and worked with groups in 10 states. I’ve been teaching massage, energy work, healing from trauma, avoiding burnout, among other […]
February 27 – March 7 Final Edits with Editor Richardson TX March 9 Friends in Need Atlanta GA March 10 Friends in Need Candler NC March 11 Friends in Need Winston-Salem NC April 20 Friends in need Williston VT May 14 – 18 Final Edits with Readers Provincetown MA May 31 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]