Pages tagged "Youth"

Quaker Summer Camp Photos 2017

• Authored by:
• Camp Staff

On Home (September 2017)

Quaker Teen Summer Camp Photos 2013

• Authored by:
• Mary Klein

On Love (September 2013)

Quaker Teen Summer Camp Photos 2014

• Authored by:
• Mary Klein

On Family (September 2014)

Radical Vulnerability

• Authored by:
• Elena Anderson-Williams,
• Kylin Navarro

There is an instant when the truth of your soul sears through your every fiber and the indescribable is revealed. It is the fierce light that splits you whole and reveals the poet Rilke’s words, “You must change your life.” It is an opportunity to bring one’s life into alignment, but there is sheer, holy terror that accompanies this process. When the Light cuts through your pretense and pride, you are vulnerable, the most vulnerable. The Light illuminates and clarifies our shadows and our love. To come closer to God we must be bold in our vulnerability. We must learn to dance on the edge of our unknowingness. This is when we give ourselves over to God. We are exposed.

On Knowing (March 2015)

Summer Camps that Made a Difference

• Authored by:
• Mary Klein

It was summer camp, but it sounded serious. Quaker Work Camp was a whole month of work and study. The camp sounded serious, but the campers made it fun.

On Production (May 2014)

Undocumented and Unafraid

• Authored by:
• Lucy Duncan

Currently immigrant youth are characterized as either angels or demons: angels who are valedictorians and student body presidents or criminals who are gang members, coyotes, or drug runners.

On Superiority (July 2013)

With a Concern for Being Thirteen

• Authored by:
• Ann Marie Snell

My son Duncan’s best friends have been his friends his entire life. Really. We met his friends’ parents in a ten-week birthing class, where we watched our bellies grow, and shared our hopes and fears. I went into labor first, then Val, then Deborah. By coincidence, the boys all ended up in the same school. “Soul brothers,” they call themselves.

On Pride (July 2014)

Woolman Students Inspire

• Authored by:
• Muriel Strand

Dear Friends: The recent Woolman Semester graduation events at Sierra Friends Center were truly inspiring. Two dozen students presented their capstone projects, and the topics ranged widely, from wildfires to baseball to addiction, and they all reflected the Woolman Semester focus on “peace, justice and sustainability.” The graduates’ valedictory talks were also diverse, with common threads of emotional growth, intellectual awakening, lifelong friendships, safe space, and personal responsibility weaving them together.

On Production (May 2014)

Your Sons and Your Daughters will Prophesy

Your Sons and Your Daughters will Prophesy

• Authored by:
• Jonathan Vogel-Borne

Excerpts from a presentation to Pacific Yearly Meeting; July 15, 2014; Walker Creek Ranch, Petaluma, California

On Family (September 2014)