Building a New Tomorrow

Building a New Tomorrow

by Doreen Hosking We must not stumble upon tomorrow. We must build it. – Pope Francis Mankind is capable of wondrous things. We have only to look at some of the great medieval cathedrals or listen to a Beethoven Symphony to know that this is true. Right now,...

If Quakers Were Witches

by Sara Jolena Wolcott My grandmother loved moss.  We would go on long walks together (well, I thought they were long, as an 9 year old), and look at the lichen on trees together with great delight. Upon a magnificent vista, a special clearing, or a Great Old Tree,...

Ostara

Passages through the Valley of Dry Bones By Allen McGrew Representative to Quaker Earthcare Witness from Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting Beneath the monotone gray skies of February, before the Cardinal’s first song or the muskrat emerges from its winter den, as I crunch...
Bathing in wood air

Bathing in wood air

Photo by Kathy Barnhart Bathing in wood air by Pamela Haines We all know that a walk in the woods refreshes– great trees, bird calls and breezes pungent scents of earth and pine. Yet our senses fail to name the greater forces here at work. Mushroom...