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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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Season’s Greetings from Dunedin Meeting, by Dan Booth
Season's Greetings from our Dunedin Meeting, here enjoying a delicious potluck. A very activist small group, many will join Peace March on MLK's birthday. Diane and I hope "to be in that number as the saints go marching in".
Heartfelt stories of Quakers who helped in Europe after WWI – posted by Daniel Booth
Heartfelt stories of Quakers who helped in Europe after WWI. The stories begin 1/2 way down page. They will remind some of us and newly inform others what it might have been like for Robin and Jack to do this in Germany after WWII. ...
Friends Nicaragua Blog Post, by Charlie Janney
Dear Friends, This blog post is prepared for Friends interested in the current situation in Nicaragua. This Spring the Ortega government proposed some relatively modest changes to its Social Security (Health Care) and Pension programs. As these changes would have...
Patterns of Light and Fear, by Lilli Segre
Today in Meeting for Worship, two concepts competed for my attention, persistently and insistently. One was the tapestry of our lives as woven by the Fates. It occurred to me that the fabric of my life has more resembled a knitted throw than a woven one, a fabric that...
Sage-ing and the Spirit of Service, by Bob Atchley
At the Omega Institute’s conference on Conscious Aging in 1992, I heard Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi give a dynamic presentation of his “From Age-ing to Sage-ing” framework for recovering the vital role of elder for today’s world. His vision was based on the coupling...
Kevin Moore’s 2018 Blog on his trip to Antarctica
Kevin Moore's 2018 Blog on his trip to Antarctica As many of you know, but many more of you don't, I am going to be wintering over at Palmer Station Antarctica this austral winter. I will be down there from the end of March to the end of October. I decided that the...
Boulder Friends Meeting Book Group
The Boulder Friends Meeting Book Group began in September 2013, initiated by a Friend who wanted a time and place for spiritual discussions on literary topics. The group, which is open, meaning that someone can come for only one meeting, or attend them consistently,...
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...
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