I love to quote Frank Zappa on this, “Your life is a ribbon of time that you get to decorate.” Early Friends were rightly wary of decoration. They dissented from “high church” practices of pomp and circumstance, oratory and argumentation, frankincense and anointing oils.
Ravenna
And what did we see, high up there
in mosaics
but the old cousins, Beatrice, Edris, Alice
holding cups of gold, their haloes
awkward like the straw hats
they wore in the beanfields
David Ray, Pima Meeting, Tucson, AZ (IMYM)
Dear Friends: Albuquerque Meeting supported our friend Emma in sanctuary for twenty-one months. [See the July/August 2017 issue of Western Friend.]
an interview with Anna Fritz by Natalie Ramsland
Dear Friends: I know of no organized group of socially aware individuals other than Friends who may be able to help me with this request.
