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Lindsey Mead Russell is a mother, writer, and headhunter who lives in Cambridge, Mass., with her husband, daughter, and son. She graduated from Princeton with a degree in English and has an MBA from Harvard. Her writing has been anthologized and published in a variety of print and online sources and she writes daily at www.adesignsovast.com.
Posted in: November 2012: Quaker Books, Writing, and Poetry, ReflectionThoughts on Wanting Less
Every year Americans throw out or recycle more than 250 tons of garbage. Only about 14 percent of this waste [ā¦]
Elizabeth Helen Spencer teaches English and creative writing to college students. She has an MFA from Temple University and lives with her husband and three cats in Philadelphia. Her fiction, "The Permanence of Objects," was published recently in an Ā issue of Chamber Four magazine (Chamberfour.com).
Posted in: 2012, October 2012: Wall Street, Main Street, and Meetinghouse Road, ReflectionThe Night I Took a Second Look
Fog smudged the letters on the street sign and the features of the man on the sidewalk. It was 9:30 [ā¦]
Dorothy Kinsman Brown is a member of Annapolis (Md.) Meeting.
Posted in: Departments, ReflectionWalking From Shadows Into Light
āā¦ for we walk by faith not by sight.ā (2 Corinthians 5:7) As a retired person, walking has become a way [ā¦]
Peter Lang lives in Morris Plains, NJ, and is a member of Chatham-Summit Meeting. As a Traveling Friend, Peter has visited numerous meetings in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and New York Yearly Meeting sharing his program, "My Journey with Thomas Kelly; Seeking the Light Within."
Posted in: Departments, ReflectionWar, Compassion, and Devonshire Pasty
My boyhood was spent in Plymouth, on the southwestern coast of England near the little harbor from which the [ā¦]
Ken Southwood was a boy of 14 when the bombing of Great Britain began in 1940. He is a member of San Antonio (Tex.) Meeting and lives in San Antonio.
Posted in: ReflectionThe Silence Within the Silence
Deep within us all is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Center, a Speaking [ā¦]
Peter Lang is a member of Chatham-Summit (N.J.) Meeting.
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