A Quaker Wedding
A Quaker wedding is beautiful. Usually I cry; mostly I smile. Have you been to one? I sense God crouches a bit closer to us miscreants during a wedding. Thankfully, Quakers allow space and time to hear the Lifegiver’s whispers and sometimes we glean wisdom of how to...
A Dark, Sad Knight
Take note of these killings: 2012 The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora with 12 dead, 58 wounded, heroic moviegoers. 2011 Remember the shooting rampage in Tucson when Rep Gifford was shot and ultimately resigned from office. 2009 Remember at Fort Hood, an army psychiatrist...
Jambo Kenya Trip
I spent 30 days in Kenya, mostly working with Friends groups, scrutinizing and worshiping, and singing. Part of the trip was investigating whether to do future peace work in East Africa. 20 of us Friends from New England also joined in the World Conference of Friends...
Salt and Light- Quaker World Gathering
When I first read about the 6th World conference of Friends in Nakuru Kenya in April 2012, I was mostly excited. My heart palpitated. Then as I heard the theme a cloud descended: Being Salt and Light. Being Salt? What does that mean? Salt wrinkles the skin and all...
Robin by the Tree of Life
I saw the bird in passing, as I loped across the intersection. I hopped up the curb to the sidewalk and I saw it in my mind’s eye--the head contorted, the legs splayed out, the lower beak jerked out like a huge thorn. It was a robin: it must have been a road kill. If...
Peace Meal Tweets
I. The West is obsessed with Islamophobia. Look at Indonesia, the largest Muslim nation, which had democratic elections in 1955, and, despite a period of dictatorship, had returned peacefully again. Are we fighting wars in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan for...
River Runnels
Today the river was liquid cellophane, silver and lugubrious. Thank God I am ambulatory and up before the Harvard hordes. I had a nightmare the night before. The dream was a bad car accident where I was terribly hurt but without a drop of blood. Do you ever wonder...
Occupy Power :~) Dude!
Occupiers, like our sisters/brothers in the Arab Spring are determined to spring forward with democracy. The Occupy movement is making a difference. We have delayed the XL pipeline and fracking (hydraulic fracturing). We are shaking down the US oligarchy, the US...
Trash or American Inheritance
We have much to be thankful for. My life is bedecked with gifts in this rich country in 2012. This Spring in melting America can’t come early enough. What are we waiting for? The Arab Spring is sprung and carried on by Egyptians and Syrians to this day. I can't say...
Haiti, rise up
Tianos call it land of mountains Ayiti The Santa Maria shipwrecked on coral, the submerged mountain The Tianos dove and dragged the splintered lumber to build the first European town, La Navidad. Another birth in Ayiti The pewter armor, the reckless white hunger...