So here it comes again: on another list, a complaint about expensive Quaker schools. Are they really “Quaker”? Don’t they sow division in meetings? Don’t they perpetuate all kinds of bad class stuff?? For the record, I never worked at one of the fancy Quaker schools; but I was briefly on the “faculty” of the … Continue reading Rant: Complaining About Fancy-Schmancy Quaker Schools
Published: Mon Feb 22, 2010 Marines’ training at Fort Bragg to raise decibel levels around town The noise level around Fort Bragg may increase when the Marines conduct their annual spring artillery training on Fort Bragg from March 1 to April 2.
A Friend wrote privately about the previous report about US & UK funding agencies withholding donations to schools in Kenya because of rampant corruption. Kenyan Quakers operate many schools, and for the sake of clarity, the articles I quoted did not directly allege that Quaker schools had been stealing US and UK funds.
Seems to me it’s time for an open update for American and other Friends on the struggle against theft and corruption in Quaker institutions and programs in Kenya. This question has been growing on me in recent months, but I figured maybe there had been one and I missed it. But it was brought back … Continue reading Buddy, Can You Spare A Few Million Shillings? A Kenya Fraud Update & Request
This single lonesome Daffodil is blooming in our backyard, amid the rain and facing a freezing night. It moves me to verse – With apologies to His Eminence, Leonard Cohen: They’re comin’ from a hole in the ground We’ve waited months for them to be around I know that you may feel That this ain’t … Continue reading A Single Lonesome Daffodil