An update about QUIT at Friends House, a Quaker-sponsored retirement community in Santa Rosa, California.
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Sabbatical Journal: March 2008
I don’t know why I have a small excitement for shopping at thrifts stores. Maybe it’s the long shot of finding that lovely old thing that has somehow survived until now and isn’t too broken or worn for me to enjoy at some ridiculous price. As this sabbatical began I found a small stuffed Bugs Bunny positioned […]
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A Call to Spiritual Discipline
I was 16 years old when I attended meeting for worship for the first time. Also present were a woman marathon runner, several professors, an ancient colonel from World War I, and a man who spoke Navajo and his poet wife. Not all were vegetarians or tax resisters. Not all the men had been conscientious […]
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The Secret of Torture
The spiritual consequences of secrets are sudden potholes in integrity, surprises, and struggles to keep a secret hidden rather than open and exposed to wonder- wonder being the most basic posture of spiritual life. Always, certain people will choose to be with something so challenging, to wash and heal the culture and individuals. And knowing […]
Dear Friends, I believe the time has come for Quakers to create a conference on torture. Increasingly, there are corners without Light in American culture and places of American domination where there is no longer simply the threat of abduction, imprisonment or death, but also the likelihood that this includes torture. This calculated brutality has […]
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Cambodian Grandmothers
On this quiet morning I am at my desk as a bit of snow and sun mix in the sky. It’s beautiful. The wood stove is on a slow burn and the rest of the wood pile is refusing to get into the woodshed by itself. I have been going back over my 93 calendar […]