Dear Friends, A good year of teaching and hands-on work is ending. I am closing in on 30 years of traveling since beginning my healing work in 1982. This year was another layer of time with wonderful invitations to teach about healing from trauma, avoiding burnout during hard work, and the on going task of […]
Dear All, Thank you for all your notes and for holding the QUIT conference in the Light. The conference was excellent! All 4 presenters outdid themselves in presenting current information from their fields. Terry Kupers, author of Prison Madness, gave us clear information about how the use of torture in American prisons results in deformed […]
I’ve a box full of maps. Going through the box to find maps I might use, I find odd sorts of things. Here are 5 postcards bought in Spain and one written out to me but unsent- Marshall had some work in Salamanca Spain. And there’s a map of the solar system- now that’s a […]
Dear Friends, There is a particular discipline that comes with my duel works of healing trauma and ending torture. It is a discipline of attending to the immediate particulars while keeping an eye on the far horizon. While attending to the moment of right now, I keep in mind the time to come and bridging […]
All day I’ve felt a bit sad. I’ve been remembering the arc of AIDS in my life, what I usually think of as the AIDS WARS. I remember hearing a little something in August of 83, an article in Time magazine perhaps, about gay men getting cancer in San Francisco and New York. I was […]
February 20 – 22 Powell House Body as Temple for Spiritual Work Old Chatham, NY Mar 12-13 Quaker Initiative to End Torture Mtg Wash, DC March 28 Mountain View Meeting of Quakers- Healing Denver, CO Mar 29 CO Regional Gathering of Quakers- Speaker Denver, CO April 24-26 Woolman Hill Abandon All Weariness / Spiritual […]
Dear Friends, 2009 has been a full and wonderful year of travel work following my 2008 sabbatical. I worked with 24 groups in 12 states. From planning meetings for The Quaker Initiative to End Torture- QUIT in DC to the main plenary at North Pacific Yearly Meeting in Montana to the Dragonfly Transitions young […]
An update about QUIT at Friends House, a Quaker-sponsored retirement community in Santa Rosa, California.
It happened again recently and while it is not frequent, it is also not unusual. I’m at a yearly meeting and a woman comes up to me. She says that in the past few days she realizes that when ever she is standing near me that her neuropathy stops hurting. She laughs and says that […]
Dear Friends, I am back on the road after a year of sabbatical. In 2009, I’m teaching in some of my old favorite spots- Pendle Hill, Quaker Center, Powell House, and Friends General Conference. Plus new places- North Pacific Yearly Meeting, Colorado Regional Gathering of Friends, Wellness Works in CA. I return to work from […]