Just about every day, Facebook pops up on my personal page a post & photo from this date some year in the past, as a memory. The other day, a photo came up on FB of me, taking nap recliner, while mischievous granddaughter, seven, piling stuffed animals and stuff on my torso to see how … Continue reading Coping with General PTSD
I knew it would happen, and knew I wouldn’t like it, but I did it anyway. The third “it” above was start a Facebook group called “Quakers,” about a month ago, after a previous one abruptly folded up: some internal hassle among the admins had spun out of control. I wasn’t involved in the hassling, … Continue reading Biting the Bullet: Truth and Consequences
In other news, besides the pandemic, insurrection, the economic crash, climate degradation, systemic racism and a few other “challenges,” did you stop to think this week about how most of the USA and much of the rest of the world could be destroyed with not much more than 15 minutes warning? Me neither. Except that … Continue reading Patrick O’Neill Just Went to Jail. Again. “By the Grace of God,” he says.
Since January 6, 2021, many American Quakers (& others) have waited anxiously to see whether a new civil war is soon to break out. As the first anniversary of the attempted coup approaches, the question of what Quakers can or should do in response to such a calamity lingers, as well it should. I don’t … Continue reading Quakers: From Peace to Civil War (Again?)
A few days ago, a post on a Quaker Facebook group asked what the Quaker position was on dealing with insurrection. An excellent and, er, disturbingly timely question. To which, of course, there is not a single Quaker answer. To my mind, the best way to approach it is to look at live examples in … Continue reading Insurrection, Civil War & Quaker Dilemmas