‘I give thanks for laughter and tears, for sleep and silence’ This vocal ministry from the final session of this yearly meeting summed up the experience for me. There was much laughter, in and out of sessions, and joy at being together, meeting friends old and new, making and re-making connections with one another. There [...]

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Yes, she would try. It would be enlightening, challenging, possibly upsetting, and, she hoped, also fun. She was tall, which was a good thing, and relatively straight up and down. Her hair was short – would it pass? and she took size 7 shoes. She would need to change her language, really think herself into [...]

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I’m gazing at the river, ceaselessly flowing. She entices me, invites me in Yet teases me with fallen leaves and eddies and whirlpools, Floating bubbles, coots and moorhens and ducks, Trying in every way to distract me. And then there are the corkscrew trees upended, The drifting clouds, the too perfect symmetrical swan. If I’m [...]

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Several years ago I received a birthday card, which had, on its front page, a picture of the wicked queen in the story of Snow White. Exquisitely dressed and with beautiful black hair, the Queen is asking the mirror in her boudoir: “Mirror Mirror on the wall, who is the youngest-looking of them all?” Inside [...]

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