The opening message shared in meeting for worship on 7/9 was from Walt Whitman's Song of Myself:

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least,
Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.

Why should I wish to see God better than this day?
I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,
In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass,
I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign’d by God’s name,
And I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoe’er I go,
Others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Walt Whitman, the son of a Quaker-raised mother, was once asked if he himself was a Quaker. His answer was, "No, I was never meant to live inside a fence." Still, Quakers find many echoes of Quakerism in his life and his writing.