Our Blog
Boulder Meeting’s Blog page highlights the projects, activities, and interests of individual members and attenders. The Blog page is intended to encourage sharing of ideas and to help us get to know each other. Do you have something to share with the rest of us? Perhaps a trip where you provided outreach work, an article you wrote that concerns Friends, or something similar? If so, this may be the place to post it!
How to Post a Blog Entry
Send your article or story to the web committee, and we will post it for you.
OR, if you’d like to do it yourself (we’d love you to!), please follow these steps:
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SEEKING — Through a Vermont Childhood and Beyond, by Paul Wehr
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 go...
Escaping Karma, by Richard Smoley — excerpted from his book “Inner Christianity”
Dear Friends, I found the following excerpt by Richard Smoley in "The Sun" magazine a couple of years ago, and was so struck by it, that I ripped out the page. I hope you find it as wonderful as I did. -- Judi Dressler Perhaps...
A brief history of chocolate (John Cadbury, Quaker chocolatier)
Cadbury chocolate company was founded by Quaker John Cadbury in London in 1824. Tea, coffee, cocoa and drinking chocolate were not only delicious, they were also considered to be healthy alternatives to alcohol, which Quakers deemed bad for...
What Would Buddha Think About Red States and Blue States – Charlie Janney
Some may be put off by this question, as Buddhism is usually thought of as a religion. But Buddha was primarily a student of human nature, as were two other sages of antiquity, Lao Tzu and Confucius. As with these other men, a religion was...
Open Letter to Meeting on Depression – Charlie Janney
Dear Friends, I composed this Open Letter to Meeting late last year, but it could not be shared easily until recently. As I’ve mentioned during Meeting, the Morbidity and Mortality (suffering and death) caused by Depression world wide is second only to...
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