‘All of us are bumblebees; we appoint each other and any of us may be appointed.’ Photo: by Venkata Suresh on Unsplash
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.’
by Frances Voelcker
28th May 2021
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?
