Friends often seem to me not only puritanically suspicious of beauty, unless it occurs in nature—trees, landscapes, sunrises—but actually disapproving…
Books reviewed: Gathered: Contemporary Quaker Poets (ed. by Nick McRae); Powerful Beyond Measure: The Legacy of Quaker Leadership in the 21st Century (George Lakey); Sparkling Still: A Quaker Curriculum for First Day School or Home Use for Children 3-8 (Sparkling Still Working Group of FGC); The Last Runaway (Tracy Chevalier); The Quaker Way: A Rediscovery (Rex Ambler); The Dance Between Hope & Fear (John Calvi); Transition in Healing: A Journey (Normal Lee); Abuse Survivors: Self-Guided Retreat, A Memoir of Healing (Brutz); The Immanence Bible in Verse (John Michael Wine); Living in the Kingdom of God (John Andrew Gallery); The Gospel of Thomas: Wisdom of the Twin (Lynn C. Bauman); The Essence of George Fox's Journal (ed. by Hunter Lewis); Full Planet, Empty Plats: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity (Lester R Brown); The Shark's Paintbrush: Biomimicry and How Nature is Inspiring Innovation (Jay Harman); Dear White America: Letters to a New Minority (Tim Wise); She Walked for All of Us: One Woman's 1971 Protest Against an Illegal War (Louse Bruyn).
