‘Wood can resonate in a deeply individual way so that the player becomes one with the instrument, and a personal relationship grows between them.’ Photo: courtesy Juliet Gutch
Resounding success: Tom Shakespeare finds Quakerly hopefulness in the luthier’s art and music
‘If we love what grows silently in our midst, how could we not love what is made from it?’
by Tom Shakespeare
26th March 2021
In the 2020 Swarthmore Lecture, I wrote, optimistically, that we can rediscover hope in the silent waiting of Quaker worship. I recently discovered a visual metaphor for that hope and that stillness which I want to share. At present, an example hangs above the desk at which I work, and where I sit in silence as the computer screen links me via Zoom to other members of Wymondham Meeting.
