FGConnections Autumn 2006
More Reflections on the Western Gathering
An Unlimited Supply of Love
By Maya Campbell-Unsoeld: “Young Friends are the most involved, talented, caring, and accepting group of people I have ever met. The community we created this summer was one of powerful love and laughter that carried us across all barriers.”
Following the Threads
By Chris Pifer: “As I reflect on the Gathering, I find different pieces of my identity oddly amplified, and clearer, while other pieces fade away as less important. For quite a while I will have a flashbulb memory of the AYF orientation, feeling slightly unprepared and a little taken aback by 120+ in the group.”
New Friendships and Deep Listening
By Chuck Esser: “The path opens in amazing ways if we allow ourselves be part of the water.”
From Contradancer to Contradance Musician
By Dick Bellin: “For as long as I have been going to Gathering, one of the high points of the week has been the contradancing. I have seldom participated in this activity at home, but at Gathering I would almost always find myself on the dance floor.”
A People of Life
By Marvin Barnes: “We Quakers are a people of life. Our Gathering at Puget Sound allowed
us to come together from the far corners of the world and share our contributions in an atmosphere of love and respect.”
Your Truth or Mine?
By Rick Juliusson: “I’ve tried reassuring and gently explaining, tried brushing it aside and telling him to let go, but by now I have somehow identified this crowded, noisy cafeteria as the golden opportunity to teach my four year old a lesson about trust and accusations.”
Western Gathering
- Expanding Circles by Aimee Bucholz
- Listen and Obey the Spirit by Rubye Howard Braye
- Touching others … others touching us by John Helding
- Water Has Memory by Raelyn Joyce
- Living Water Cards
- Sailing to Gathering by Linda Hill and John Scull
- More Reflections from the Western Gathering
