Last month the new single charity for Quakers in Wales and the Marches held its AGM. Helen Oldridge & Lesley Richards reflect

‘We had to make the path by walking it.’

by Helen Oldridge & Lesley Richards 13th December 2024

Helen
Lesley I was thinking of that poem you shared a year or so ago, about a river finding its way to the sea.  

Lesley
Oh yes, ‘The river cannot go back’ by Kahlil Gibran. It imagines the fear of the river as it approaches the sea, fearing it will be swallowed up, but finding that it hasn’t disappeared into the ocean, it’s actually become the ocean itself.