Jul 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
Poems by Lee Stark 01 In their garden, I learned to splay the roots against their will, ideally with wet fingers but with a knife if they did not want to leave. This would stop the entire plant from bursting forth like a champagne cork, they said, when the ground...
Jul 16, 2025 | BeFriending Creation
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,...
Jul 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
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,...
Apr 18, 2025 | Mini-Grants
0 Our Goal 0 Donors So Far 0 Amount Raised So Far Quaker Earthcare Witness has distributed dozens of “mini-grants” over many years to Friends meetings, churches, and groups to support creative projects that foster Earthcare, address environmental justice...
Mar 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
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...
Dec 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
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...
Dec 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
Simplicity: A Call to Return to Unity and Harmony With Earth and Its Inhabitants By SJM and Lee Hall Climate Action Committee, Radnor Quaker Meeting It’s often said that it takes more muscles to frown than to smile. There is an inherent simplicity and ease in smiling....
Dec 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
A Fight for the Heart of the Everglades: The EAA Reservoir and Big Sugar by Scott Virgin Growing up amidst the ecosystems of South Florida is a blessing. Exploring mangrove channels, spearfishing coral reefs, climbing coastal islands, hammocks, and swamps, and...
Dec 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
The Un-Quaker Practices of TIAA by Laura Hulbert Imagine you smell bleach when you take your class out to the school yard. It’s not a faint smell. The tag-players are short of breath. The kids on the monkey bars are coughing and sneezing, and one girl is dry heaving...
Dec 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
Image by Kathy Barnhart Freeing Ourselves From Possessions By Tom Small If you want to make small changes, change the way you do things. If you want to make major changes, change the way you see things. –Gabe Brown, quoting Don Campbell Burley Coulter is, to...
