Bee in the bonnet: Quakers are stuck in awkward structures, says Frances Voelcker

‘If you cannot draw a clear diagram of a society’s structure, then it is likely that there is structural problem.’

‘All of us are bumblebees; we appoint each other and any of us may be appointed.’ | Photo: by Venkata Suresh on Unsplash

Following Yearly Meeting (YM) in 2018 various words resonated with me, and various images remained. Others noted ‘bold’, ‘creative’, ‘change’, and ‘vulnerable’. I noticed also ‘finding the balance’; ‘the barriers of our structures’; and ‘wonderful bumblebees’. Did you know that, according to the laws of aerodynamics, bumblebees should not be able to fly?

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