(Me in front of the London Bridge in 2001) Dear Friends, This last fall I was invited by an organization I am a part of called Quakers Uniting in Publications (QUIP) to speak at their annual meeting on writing and to help release Spirit Rising: Young Quaker Voices, the book for which I have served […]
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I have a confession to make. It’s not easy to say this-much less publish it to the wide world-but I feel I can no longer continue in secret. Though it doesn’t seem harmful now, not opening up about it could be harmful and doing so, may help others who haven’t felt free to be open
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Since Wednesday, I haven’t checked for any messages on my phone or went onto Facebook. Do you know how good that feels? It’s been nice to disconnect in those ways and to release myself from them for a while. It is one of the things I learned in Kenya, how nice it can be to
We arrived to the Pacific Northwest Quaker Women’s Theology Conference yesterday in the late afternoon. The grounds are beautiful. To get here, you have to cross a wooden bridge over a lagoon where at the end, you can turn around and gaze at the beautiful bay of water before you surrounded by trees and a
It is one of those beautiful nights after a thunderous storm has rolled through and the air is now fresh and clean. Everything is moved, substituting for the school year is over, all the volunteer positions have been assigned and I am sitting by a fireplace in Vancouver in the still calm with a friend
Yesterday was a very full day. After breakfast, I led a workshop on Writing as Prayer. Personally, I love workshops that are more interactive and so I lead my own in that manner, a style the attendees appreciated. We had good discussion and good questions. I really enjoyed the time we got to spend together.
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Between the blogging panel, the Writing as Prayer workshop, and all the events for the book, I haven’t had much time to post on here. However, things have slowed down now and while I listen to this workshop, Poetry as Ministry which right now feels like balm to my soul, I’m going to post pictures
Here are yesterday’s pictures: Emily and her house where I blogged from. Mary, Emily, and I drove to Richmond together. Our evening session last night with Tom, the Quaker archivist at Earlham. Several of the young adults going out for a night on the town! There was a plethera of laughter! This one is actually
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Wow!!! What a day! I kept hearing those words, “We the People”. They have made me think a lot about what they mean. Being in the place in which our country was created certainly brings them home in a whole new way. It is amazing how much I fit into one day. It felt like
It always amazes me how far we can travel in such short a time. For example, today I traversed the entire North American continent in about 5 1/2 hours. Compared to the 33 hour flight coming home from Kenya, today’s was hardly much at all! Walking through the airports, it feels like old hat to
