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Soul Trees By Randall Mullins On the last day of SeptemberI walk a half blockto visit eight trees I have gotten to know.They are left from a larger forest,still cared for by a third-generation owner.He took these trees into his heartand it shows. I saw them first five years agofrom our fourth-floor window,just after we…

Visiting a Spanish-Language Church by Blake Recently I attended a church service very different from our Quaker meeting. I sat in the back and understood only parts of the service, which was in Spanish. I was there to support my goddaughter Maria who had been asked to lead a “Know Your Rights” training after the…

Marking MLK Day   Five Friends helped plant the 20 trees we donated to the Frayser Food Forest while five helped out with Food not Bombs at Court Square, both on January 18th. On the 20th, Susan and Blake marched in the MLK Day parade, and at least three Friends participated in two MLK interfaith…

Rescuing a Butterly by William (Carol’s grandson) The entire first half of last September was dominated for me by something I had never done before. I tried to rebuild the damaged wing of a monarch butterfly I found in my backyard one afternoon with her left forewing torn in half. She was flailing about in…

Ghosts of Christmas Past by Carol Is there anything that can tie us so tightly to our childhoods as Christmas? Childhood memories are especially powerful even though they are often amorphous. The smells, the sounds, the seasonal triggers of memory form a kind of dream world that has little to do with the current Christmas…