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 things. This is my 31st year teaching all this, working by invitation, and living mainly on gifts.
The biggest news for me was the publication of my book in late June. “The Dance Between Hope & Fear” is 225 pages of my journals, letters, speeches, and lectures. The response has been beyond all I could hope for with many people saying it’s a long awaited gift to keep and use for all time. Shelly Angel, my editor, has done a tremendous job of shaping stacks of old papers, scribbled journals, and ancient computer files into a cohesive whole. It’s available from Friends General Conference Bookstore and from Amazon. I hope you will enjoy it. Work on a second book already began this summer.
My calendar shows a wide range of uses for a Quaker healer in his 6th decade. All this has been possible because support has come even during difficult financial times. I’ve never gotten use to the suspense of living on gifts really. But every year I am made grateful and productive because your kindness and generosity continue and so much good work is done.
I need your help to do more. Please. I have more work to do as a Quaker healer and as a teacher. I have more work to do as the founding convener of the Quaker Initiative to End Torture- QUIT! I have more work to do as a writer and a seeker. Please send a gift and help me continue. Thank you for all your kindness these many years.
In the Light,
John Calvi