Eye hears about a haiku happenstance, a Quaker Christmas on the BBC, and offers a well-loved phrase for contemplative colouring…
by Elinor Smallman
Glimmers of light and love Setting aside the Eye mask for a moment, and (fair warning) getting more serious than usual, I wanted to share something with you, my trusty readers. I…
Never too old Friends might remember a story that appeared in the sunshine pages on 26 January, ‘Never too old’. Bristol-based Roger Sturge, an eighty-five-year-old Friend,…
Sing a song of Swann Rosemary Mathew, of Cambridge Jesus Lane Meeting, popped this piccy in the Eye mailbag after spying a Quaker mention somewhere she hadn’t expected. She…
On this day Challenging questions – and the forbidden fruits of cheese, Marmite and broad beans – appeared in the page of the Friend on 5 January 1990, pouring from the pen of…
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