Early in the day, bleary eyed, we eat our croissants in company. Sip our tea, pass the jam, chat about our lives and get to know one another in the things temporal, the ups and downs of our daily lives. Dipping lengths of wick into hot wax, the young people teach the even younger, or [...]

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The American Declaration of Independence of 1776 famously stated that “all men are created equal”. It proceeded to explain this as a religious truth from which political structures and ‘inalienable’ human rights were derived. At the time, both women and slaves were evidently excluded from the application of this principle and equality has proved an [...]

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The morning stirs and struggles to become a day, accompanied by engine thrum and the radio man . I eat buns and apply stoplight coloured lipstick behind the wheel. Kids on bikes glance in as they pass, “Only someone’s mum” they say. No magic allowed – it’s term-time but it happens anyway. Just above that [...]

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The baker selects: fatty, sweet, fruity. Mixing bowl laid out: all sit as equals. Heat comes as silence: to gently raise us. The steel point of words: testing the Meeting. A handshake cuts it: serve results with tea. Rhiannon, August 2007

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She starts with the chores at first sign of light Then into the fields with basket strapped tight. She picks all day long in the hot, hot sun And is wearily glad when the day is done. Basket heavy with leaves she has picked Her fingers are sore and her back is ricked. Her harvest [...]

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