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Heading off shortly to “the best place to live in Wales”, to the Friends’ Meeting there, and to an hour of silence!
‘True silence… is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.’ (William Penn, 1699)

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#SilentSunday
Time in the garden, drawn by the mahonia aquifolium (or is it a berberis? there seems to be some confusion between the two) which forms part of the roadside hedge - totally covered in typical spring time yellow.

A few minutes there, seems a good way of transitioning from the silence of the #QuakerMeeting, back into the world.

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@davidabbottbris that’s a good description David of how Friends’ Meetings work - I hadn’t experienced anything like it in all my years before! It was good to see you there today, & yes the clerks did a good job. At the top of the list of what makes a good Meeting for me is the silence, then the freedom from having a particular spirituality/religion imposed (I’m a happy non-theist myself) #quaker #quakermeeting #friends #quakerrainbow #queerfriends #queerquakers #britainyearlymeeting

How lovely to attend my first Quaker Rainbow zoom meeting. I'm re-remembering different ways of talking and listening. Not ways in which the goal is to win on a point, or to defeat another view. I like the focus on discernment, of sitting with difference, of not having to speak for speaking's sake. #quaker #quakerrainbow #quakermeeting #queer