A row of turnips. Photo: Søren Holt / flickr CC.

Stevie Krayer offers a personal reflection

Of mice, turnips and generosity

Stevie Krayer offers a personal reflection

by Stevie Krayer 18th August 2017

This is what I heard at Yearly Meeting Gathering: There was a village; a couple arrived from far away to live there. The villagers, like villagers everywhere, were suspicious of the incomers and kept their distance, but the couple had their dog, their cat and their mouse for company, and for many years they lived a quiet but comfortable life, for the husband was a skilled gardener and the wife a skilled cook.

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