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Poetry

Practicing Steadfastness

When I ask myself, ‘What is devotion?’I find that my answers are all verbs: to kneel and kiss the ground, and then rise… Lisa Lundeen
Life in the Meeting

Greetings from Meeting House Road

A Quaker Welcomes Accidental Tourists in Sandy Spring, Md. James Lehman Jr.

Mary Lou Goertzen

Goertzen—Mary Lou Goertzen, 91, Oct. 20, 2020, at home in “the blue schoolhouse” in Deadwood, Ore. She was buried next…

Elaine Jeanette Amoruso

Amoruso—Elaine Jeanette Amoruso, 93, on February 6, 2019, in Berkeley, Calif. Elaine was born on January 26, 1926, in Mount…
Among Friends

A Gathered People

Our introduction to the May 2020 issue. Gabriel Ehri

Margaret Shirley Holmes Fritchoff

Fritchoff—Margaret Shirley Holmes Fritchoff, 97, on November 17, 2016, in Tucson, Ariz., after a brief illness. Shirley was born on…

Renate Frey

Frey—Renate Frey, 77, on May 5, 2019, in Doylestown, Pa., peacefully, after enduring three years of Alzheimer’s disease with grace.…
Reflection

Is Imagination Simple?

Outward simplicity can inspire an untrammeled flowering of imagination. Kat Griffith
Student Voices Project

I Can Do It

Although I have never been someone who loves sports or competition very much, this year my parents encouraged me to… Marin Shankin
Features

Faces of Addiction

A project to make compassion possible. Eric K. Hatch

Peter George Walsh

Walsh—Peter George Walsh, 102, on May 27, 2018, in Takoma Park, Md. Peter was born on March 4, 1916, in…
Poetry

Mistress Dyer and the Wilderness

FJ Poetry: Sometimes the wind comes from the bay / and it carries me to the Thames. But rarely. /… Anne Myles
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