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!
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Disagreement and Tenderness
By Lilli Segre From time to time, during difficult discussions that bordered on the heated, Friends have quoted aloud Isaac Penington on tenderness: “Our life is love, and peace, and tenderness; and bearing one with another, and forgiving one another, and not laying...
A Wager
A Wager By Stan Grotegut Early on, Pascal says, “The sky and the birds prove God!” So now what? To live in Simplistic adoration? Simplistic surrender to The impossibility of the All. The sky. The birds. Dare you try? Dare you go forth From your womb of...
A Still Small Voice
Susan Rose invited us to share her music from our April 5, 2026 Meeting: AUDIO LINK
Of Hope and Grief
By Lilli Segre Today in Meeting for Worship, the words grief, despair, and hope kept jostling for my attention. The vocal ministry danced around those words within the context of feelings aroused by current events, but my context was deeply personal. The crushing...
Awesome Awe and Shock Absorbers
By Daniel Booth Attention-getting title, now to deliver something useful. Imagine, as I did on the floor of a yoga class last week, a spotlight above your head. You are now illuminated by a cone of light and not just ordinary light. Imagine further that it is God’s...
Remembering Anne Remley
I’m writing in remembrance of my friend Anne Remley. I met Anne in 1988, when I moved to Ann Arbor for social work grad school. Ann Arbor has a large vibrant Friends Meeting. When I introduced myself at meeting, Anne went out of her way to make me feel welcome. Later,...
American Friends Service Committee Activities, Programs and Opportunities
I’m writing as Liaison between BFM and American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). This organization has offices (and centers of volunteer activity) throughout America, plus a number of similar outposts worldwide, including in the besieged city of Rammalah in Gaza....
As You Shelter in Place, posted by Daniel Booth
A Letter to Husbands, Wives, Partners, Lovers, Roommates …. As you go through your day of sheltering in place, sharing a meaningful thought, returning an affectionate look across the table, feeling the touch of a hand on your shoulder, passing the platter of food to...
Upland Update #2: Progress Continues
July 24, and our Quaker meeting house still stands in silence as the pandemic continues. In front, one huge dumpster continues to block the view. A new light has been installed beside the front walk near the street. The driveway is weedy but the lawn...
Update on Upland, by Mary Downton
On impulse, despite the Covid-19 pandemic, last week I ventured out to check on our shuttered meeting house. Approaching on Upland Ave, the street was cluttered with parked cars and construction vehicles. Work was going on all around. New wooden fencing...
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