I was born light-filled. Becoming aware of the spokes of my new life, I reached out in wonder and grew along them, Filling them with feelings, Experiences, Knowledge And memories.…
‘Grass roots movements involve planting seeds. Those seeds are our own faithful lives’ Jane Pearn said in her report on Meeting for Sufferings to General Meeting for Scotland…
At a meeting last year in Brighton, to commemorate the Holocaust, I was sitting next to a Jewish solicitor and I told her that, although from a Jewish family, I was a Quaker.…
Peace is defined as the absence of hostility – characterised by a lack of violence and aggression, both in the international community and within smaller groups in society.…
The Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) has released a summary of the key findings of a significant report: Zero Carbon Britain. CAT has been working on this for some years,…
There are phrases that jump off the page at a particular period in one’s life and make a huge impact. Two such phrases were in some notes I took from the Pendle Hill pamphlet…
In his book Fraudcast News – How bad journalism supports our bogus democracies, Patrick Chalmers, a former Reuters financial reporter, contends that conventional journalists are…
Public trust in British politicians and the institutions they inhabit is in tatters – with more than half the electorate wondering whether to bother turning out to vote. Yet,…
Facing shafts of light without, within a brighter place we begin, to whisper then to shout fractures of the outer core dropping of the daily mask, conversations deep and raw……
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