October 2009 issue
John Calvi is a Certified Massage Therapist specializing in trauma and a Quaker healer with a spiritual gift for the release of emotional and physical pain following trauma. Since 1982 he has worked with rape survivors, people with AIDS, inmates, and tortured refugees. He is also the founder and convener of The Quaker [...]

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Monday and Tuesday 
On Tuesday, Friends trickled into Walker Creek Ranch’s campus on bicycles and in cars, arriving throughout the day and well into the night. Few Friends missed the terrific heat of the inland valleys, though many were chilled by as much as a fifty-degree drop in temperature. After dinner, clerk Joe Franko welcomed Friends [...]

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