Nov 1, 2020 | 2020, Art & Poetry, BeFriending Creation, Number 4, October-November-December, Volume 33
By Pamela Haines As we head toward a new year, let us: Take in the environment around us with relaxed awareness—appreciating beauty and opportunity, noticing threats, staying grounded in the midst of both; Cultivate gratitude, for spaces that have opened in our...
Aug 1, 2020 | 2020, Art & Poetry, BeFriending Creation, July-August-September, Number 3, Soil, Volume 33
By Pamela Haines Leaning into the plow— an enduring symbol of virtuous work Pioneers breaking virgin ground, bent on mastering the prairie whatever the cost. The harder the work the more noble the cause. And subdue the prairie they did— along with all...
Aug 1, 2020 | 2020, Art & Poetry, BeFriending Creation, July-August-September, Number 3, Volume 33
By Cai Quirk. I am a tree, rooted in the bedrock of divine love. I am no longer trying to be a stone wall or surround myself with one. Walls are strong but they divide, are inflexible, less connected to the earth and the divine. A tree is rooted, grounded, yet...
May 1, 2020 | 2020, April-May-June, Art & Poetry, BeFriending Creation, Number 2, Volume 33
By Allen J. McGrew, for Heidi S. McGrew. If I were a poet,
I would summon for you the cold creak of the board walk beneath your booted feet, And the gentle caress of the cool breeze on the back of your neck. My words would paint for you the glint of the just-rising...
Feb 1, 2020 | 2020, Art & Poetry, BeFriending Creation, January-February-March, Number 1, Volume 33
By Mary Ann Iyer. The cells of this earth are our cells. The wind that blows across its surface is the self same air that we breathe. Our life blood courses through our veins with no less certainty than the rivers cascading to the sea. And what are we to make of this?...
May 6, 2019 | 2019, Art & Poetry, BeFriending Creation, July-August-September, Number 3, Spiritual, Spirituality, Theology, Uncategorized, Volume 32
By Mey Hasbrook. THIS SUMMER at the Friends General Conference Gathering’s Earthcare Center, I spoke on “Transformative Earthcare: 18th-century Benjamin Lay for Today.” I shared how this third-generation Quaker lived a radical life at the intersections of concerns...
