by author | Jan 18, 2018 | Clerk
It is not a bad thing when we discover that we disagree. That we see the world through different windows, different frames. The real trick is to allow it. Not to avoid or deny or cover it over. Rather to become curious about different visions of how things are or how...
by author | Nov 3, 2017 | Our Meeting
SEEKING Through a Vermont Childhood and Beyond Paul Ernest Wehr FOREWORD “Memory is not just about the past; it continues to inform and alter the present.” …Robert MacNeil in Looking for my Country Like MacNeil reflecting on growing up in his Nova Scotia, I too...
by author | Oct 12, 2017 | Clerk
(I call this photo “A Precarious Branch,” which may serve as a useful metaphor for our Quaker identify. It was taken a few years ago on Pender Island, B.C.) Thanks to a very light business...
by author | Jun 28, 2017 | Clerk
I was fascinated at the last BBQ discussion quietly listening to many of you speak on what being a Quaker means to you and why you come to Meeting. Some said it is because of the deep silence. I too can check that box. Some said it was the experience within your...
by author | Apr 22, 2017 | Clerk
After spending more than 25 years at Boulder Meeting avoiding business meetings and what we so lovingly call “Quaker Process,” here I am poised to be your new clerk. What have you done? I was quite content to enjoy our deep and rich and communal silence without...