If you received a thank-you note from 100 years in the future, what would it say? 🖋️ What are you doing today that the future will be grateful for? Comment or call 317-QUAKERS to share your answer! 🎙️ #Future #Legacy #Imagination #Quakers @friendsjournal.org @afsc-org.bsky.social
"The [@fcnl.bsky.social] strongly condemns the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran and the dangerous pursuit of a war of regime change."
"As Quakers, we believe there is that of God in every person," the statement continues. "Bombs cannot build the just and lasting peace that true security requires."
The world sucks, so you get a cat:
Javier Mayoral, Sleeping Cat, 2021
‘It is not Christopher Marlowe’s life story that we still need, but his plays and poems: we might well want to avert our eyes from the bathetically dismal life of the man who wrote them.’
Michael Dobson on Stephen Greenblatt’s new study of the playwright.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
“You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.” ~ Margaret Atwood
With the chaos, destruction, and uncertainty of the 1640s, many in England expected the End Times and the Second Coming.
Erica Canela writes about how Quakers tapped into that energy and shared their message of direct access to Christ with the many English men and women eager to hear it.
"He used friends, apprentices and sex workers as models, and didn’t flinch from painting their desperation..."
Got up, made breakfast, drank coffee, advertised my book and noticed we are at war
When it comes to the rights of parents, Donald Trump is inconsistent and biased.
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"A child sees fire where there should be earth."
By ganavya
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I am Imagine’s 2026 Artivist in Residence!
Everything Is Connected-Tue 24th March
Bubble & Squeak: Live podcast recording – Tue 24th March
The Weight of Carbon Dioxide & Chihuahuas:– Sat 28th March
A Queer Quaker Journey – Sun 29th March
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"Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?"~Ann Patchett
Love is, in fact, an intensification of life, the completeness, a fullness, a wholeness of life.... Life curves upward to a peak of intensity...at which all its latent creative possibility goes into action & the person transcends himself in encounter, response, & communion with another.
-T Merton
Wow!
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
― Antonio Gramsci
🎧❗️NEW: Quakers and Finding Your Center in Turbulent Times
In this episode of Quakers Today, @petersontoscano.bsky.social explores how to maintain inner stability during social upheaval. Insights from Adrian Glamorgan & Kat Griffith, plus more... Download it wherever you find your favorite podcasts!
Thank you Vicki
"Remember, you don’t have to carry the whole world. You just have to carry what is yours to do. You can care about everything and then take care of the thing that you are led to care for."
Brilliant film, and well worth watching.
Quakers and Finding Your Center in Turbulent Times 🌊 Peterson Toscano explores how to maintain inner stability during social upheaval. Insights from Adrian Glamorgan and Kat Griffith, plus a look at the biology of fear. www.friendsjournal.org/podcast/quak...
One of the Cottingley Fairies photos. A little girl is surrounded by what is very obviously paper cutouts of fairy pictures.
Another of the Cottingley Fairies photos. A little girl is looking at what is, again, very clearly a cutout drawing of a fairy.
Yet another of the Cottingley Fairies photos. Once again a little girl is looking at what is, again, very clearly a cutout drawing of a fairy.
The final Cottingley Fairy photo. This one is supposed to be maintained as real. Again, very clearly paper cutouts. If you go look at the wikipedia page about it you can even see the original drawing from the book they were from.
Whenever people gush over AI I'm going to think about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle being utterly convinced that he'd discovered real scientific evidence of real fairies because he saw these pictures
"Among the items Israel restricts are drainage equipment, heaters and solar equipment, and reconstruction items such as cement and timber, many of which are classified as “dual-use” items."
www.dropsitenews.com/p/winter-col...
Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
All weekend across the USA, listeners are hearing Beverly Dale, Tina Beardsley, and Kyle Casey Chu (Panda Dulce) as I guest-host Spirit in Action.
We explore sex, gender, and Jesus—and how shame, pleasure, politics, and power shape our bodies.
www.northernspiritradio.org/spirit-actio...
Make America Bad Bunny again
NEW Bubble & Squeak: Queer horror writer @ryanlasala.bsky.social & his book, The Dead of Summer. PLUS: A message from the evil spirit who possesses Donald Trump & a Sound Slice from Richmond, VA. Hear it open.spotify.com/episode/7mAJ... or watch it on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yaom...
Wait, why write horror (esp about queer people,) when there is so much around us already? Queer horror author @ryanlasala.bsky.social explains on the latest Bubble and Squeak podcast. Hear it open.spotify.com/episode/7mAJ... or watch it on YouTube! youtu.be/Yaom0wSwCGw?...
"I felt like a stranger in a city I used to know by heart... travelling through streets and neighbourhoods that had once been familiar to me, but I barely recognised anything. I kept asking the driver if we were there yet."
Check out “Nocturnal Activities,” a new short story by James Hannan on office flirtations, romantic stress, and trying to help mentally ill family members at www.unlikelystories.org/content/noct... #fiction #smallpress #litmag
