Deep Hope in Optimystical Times (abridged)
Deep Hope in Optimystical Times: Keynote Presentation by Carl Magruder to North Pacific Yearly Meeting; July 14, 2022; Western Oregon University, Monmouth, Oregon
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This is a transcript of the keynote talk that Carl Magruder presented to North Pacific Yearly Meeting at its 2022 Annual Session.
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Kathleen Fitzgerald: The Women’s Group of Live Oak Friends Meeting has been gathering monthly for decades. We have shared and listened deeply through childbirth, parenting, partnering, unpartnering, changing jobs, changing everything, emptying nests, retiring, and finding our way with special regard to our testimonies.
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A detailed discussion of the formation and practices of Live Oak Friends Meeting’s support group for end-of-life preparations.
Several years ago, a co-worker gave me a little book entitled Things I Learned about God from Quilting. I laughed, and thought I could have written this book. So, here are a few of the things I’ve learned and a story or two.
Dear Editor: In the November/December issue of Western Friend, I found several articles of particular importance, beginning with “Learning and Living a New Story for Earth” and continuing with “More Powerful than the Grave” and “The Light: Then and Now.” Each of these intrigued me in ways I have wished for in Western Friend for a long time.
As a hospital chaplain, I met Mrs. Corrigan in an office adjacent to her oncologist’s office. She had just been talking with him about her terminal illness and about non-curative, comfort-care plans. Mrs. Corrigan was facing the end of her life from a metastatic form of cancer. As a patient now living at home, she had previously undergone many surgeries, radiation treatments, and chemotherapy.
Excerpts from the keynote presentation to Pacific Yearly Meeting; June 18, 2016; Walker Creek Ranch, Petaluma, California
by Darcy Stanley and Carl Magruder
