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Beginnings & Endings By Robert The article in November Memphis Friends News about launching a new meeting combined with my own recent Quaker experience has led me to reflect on how Quaker meetings begin and end. My wife and I are now spending about six months a year in Nelson Co, Virginia near our older…

Hummer By Anne R. The six rosetteson the mason jar feederlooked identical to me,but apparently notto the – I want to say“persnickety” –ruby-throated hummerrounding the jar –idling on airbefore each oneuntil he found the one,and uncoiling his tonguesipped the blurof his scintillant selfin the sugar water,his turbo-charged wingschurning the leavesof the potted plant below,like freak…

Pride Festival By Alyson The festival draws a lot of creative and open-minded folks who enjoy the safe place to be themselves and their energy is contagious. Our team worked very smoothly together. We had time to get to know each other while we were setting up and doing the outreach. Jace was an amazing…

Pioneers in Mental Health By Kelly Little was understood about mental illness in the Middle Ages. Sufferers were viewed either as eccentric or possessed by demons. The high point of abuse, however, actually came in the 1600s and it was just then that early Quakers began to counter the conventional wisdom. Perhaps it was Friends’…