by Minga Claggett-Borne | Dec 9, 2014 | Climate Justice, Light In Action
I am growing slowly, steadily. Imagine a dandelion, stretching its yellow tendrils. in the face of climate disaster I’m humbled but not cowed. I am reconfiguring the pieces of my life. The tempests, the droughts, the melting ice caps are speaking to us louder than any...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Aug 13, 2014 | Inspiration from Sages, Stopping Violence
I was in Ireland all of 20 days and I’ve been puzzling “why is the human race so violent and yet so loving?” How can this be? I can’t find a kinder warmer people than the ones I met on Dublin streets. The Irish seem more active in their...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Jul 22, 2014 | Stopping Violence
Six inmate AVP facilitators shared their personal journeys: “Though we may be in the gutters some of us still look at the stars” “In the past the people were afraid to approach me because of my reputation of violence, since I became an AVP facilitator people find it...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Jul 17, 2014 | Quakers in the Field
Today about 100 of us AVPers from around the world were invited into Wheatfield Prison meet with 12 inmate facilitators. It was my first bright sun-flecked day in Ireland and the inmate testimonies were even more amazing. We heard from the jail administration who were...
