Nov 28, 2022 | 2022, BeFriending Creation, Books We Love, Climate Change, Individuals Taking Action, Number 4, October-November-December, Soil, Volume 35
by Tom Small. Breath is what unites us. It unites us with the “other.” With all of creation. Breath is the rhythm, the flow of life itself. Call it Ch’i. Or ruah. Or spiritus. Or rta. The universal breath, life force, or rhythmic pattern of all being. When we...
Nov 1, 2020 | 2020, BeFriending Creation, Climate Change, Number 4, October-November-December, Soil, Volume 33
By Shelley Tanenbaum. THE STORY OF redwood renewal through fire gives me hope in a world gone mad with doom and gloom. What can we learn from one of nature’s most elegant ecological systems that evolved to not just cope with adversity, but to turn adversity into...
Aug 1, 2020 | 2020, Action-Oriented, BeFriending Creation, July-August-September, Meetings Taking Action, Number 3, Quaker-Specific, Soil, Volume 33
By Keith Runyan and Rebekah Percy. WHEN the shelter-in-place order took effect throughout California earlier this year, a small group of Young Adult Friends from Pacific Yearly Meeting organized a mutual aid project with the goals of sharing resources and creating...
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, BeFriending Creation, July-August-September, Number 3, Quaker Testimonies, Quaker-Specific, Racial Justice, Soil, Volume 33
By Katie Breslin. THIS YEAR, I started a garden at a local farm. I didn’t know what I was doing when I signed up, just the basic principles like make sure the plants have water and to pull weeds, but that was about it. Thankfully friends and my plot neighbors gave me...
May 1, 2020 | Action-Oriented, BeFriending Creation, Friendly Landscapes, Number 2, Permaculture, Practical, Soil, Sustainability, Theology, Volume 33
By Jim Kessler. SERENDIPITOUS moments are transformative intellectually and spiritually. In 1970, close to the first Earth Day, I was finishing a Masters in Biology at the University of Northern Iowa. I bought a Sierra Club book entitled A Moment in the Sun. Its clear...
