The constructive, healing, and expressive qualities of play can be experienced through artistic ventures. This is one principle behind the Quakers in the Arts program offered for the past five years at the annual gathering of Intermountain Yearly Meeting (IMYM) at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico.
Poem and photographs set at John Woolman School / Sierra Friends Center by Rick Seifert of Multnomah Monthly Meeting (NPYM).
Website that samples nearly 50 years of artwork exploring science, patterns, metaphysics, and historical events by Quaker artist Myrhh (Trudy Reagan).
This is a coloring page that takes some imagination.
Here is a coloring page for you.
“Ashes! Ashes: We all fall down”
(Ring around the Rosie, 1600s)
The thing is this:
I’m supposed to be a Quaker
And it has nothing to do with poetry.
After all,
One Quaker
Burned his violin
In 1675 on some London hill
Testifying about fleshy corruption.
Meanwhile,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.
“Does my life reflect my values and beliefs?” This query is often on my mind, and probably yours too. As a child in Mountain View Friends Meeting (Denver), I learned the Quaker belief that there is “that of God in everyone,” sometimes called “the Light within.” The Light is our best and most holy potential, our goodness, our groundedness, our Truth.
