Oh dear! This reminds me of a conversation I had with Bill Kreidler about 15 years ago. We were both getting our first international invitations to speak and it was a relief. We were both afraid that we’d be remembered for the wrong things. Bill thought it was very funny that he was worried that […]
Just wanted to pass on the names of two movies of quality and interest to gay men. The first is My Life On Ice. This is French with subtitles and shot in home movie style. It tells the story of a teenager coming of age and the subtleties of emerging gay life are artfully shown. […]
Something new is going on inside that I want to tell you about. I have this kind of slow almost sneaky feeling that my life has never been better. If I read this script ahead of time I would expect to feel unworthy or cautious. But I think what I am feeling is surprise that […]
Thanks for this funny and wonderful posting. Yes, Eva Mondon is one of our infamous Lesbian Quakers here in Putney, Vermont. I’ve passed this story on to her. Eva would love to offer civil union to more couples, especially lesbian, as a Justice of the Peace. She is not only famous in Putney Meeting as […]
Thanks for your note. Good question. A couple of thoughts come to mind. Of course, I can barely speak for myself and don’t pretend to speak for others but here’s what occurs to me on first wonder. On the one hand, there are petitions coming through other channels- NGLTF etc. So there is political response […]
I love and agree with all of Joe’s message. I also want to add that Quakerism is rarely an either or proposition regarding Quietism or action. And that there are personal cycles, which also will help us choose how we will respond. And there is also the long term development and unfolding of ones spiritual […]
A snowy day here in Putney Vermont. A week ago, at Mid-winter gathering in New Mexico, it was warmish and sunny. Marshall and I took a stroll up on a trail into Box Canyon. The colors of the mesas change with the sun’s movement. It was so wonderfully different from New England. The sky was […]
I had a dream recently that I wanted to share. It made me very happy. I had been chosen to sing with Sweet Honey in the Rock. Short of finding out that I am Joni Mitchell and Pete Seeger’s love child, it was the best of story lines. I came out on to the stage […]
Blessings on us all and this weary old world so full of people whose lives we must know to be good neighbors. I am so delighted to awake to Marshall and John M in the kitchen cooking up a storm. They’ve already made a sweet potato pie and an apple pie (I think we are […]
I have been devoted to a spiritual discipline of late whose lessons I believe may help us to bear with some of the difficulties in discussing the important tasks of social change and civil rights. The discipline I’m involved in, of taking the worst from the dark and bringing it out into the light for […]