Tables, Chairs & Oaken Chests

Originally posted to Twitter :  Sparrow incoming! #Philly #urbanbirding #sparrow Daffodils in our backyard, not far from the feeder. (It's a small yard, so it couldn't be far in any case!) ...

http://chrismsf.blogspot.com/2021/04/a-spring-day-in-philadelphia-april-2021.html

Last summer I led two online Quaker Bible studies during Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's annual sessions in summer 2020. It was PhYM's 340th annual sessions, and their first-ever conducted entirely...

http://chrismsf.blogspot.com/2021/01/quaker-bible-study-at-philadelphia.html

I once was a DJ for my favorite radio station, WPRB in Princeton, N.J.  Community-supported independent radio! Stereo 103.3 FM! There's even a photo of me from 1985 or 1986 that's used as ...

http://chrismsf.blogspot.com/2021/01/i-was-dj-was-i-what-i-played.html

Recently I walked through Clifford Park in the Blue Bell neighborhood of Philadelphia at twilight, with the sky's tones shading from the last wisps of sunset to the inky depths of pending night. ...

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I lived in a castle, more or less, from fall 1984 to spring 1985. I did not live in the tower, but off to the left side of the building in this photo.

http://chrismsf.blogspot.com/2021/01/castle.html

Personally, whenever I see a raptor, I take that as a good omen. On Jan. 11, a juvenile Cooper’s hawk paused with its lunch on the wall by the front entrance to Friends Center. So I’ve decide...

http://chrismsf.blogspot.com/2021/01/auspices.html

Recently Martin Kelley wrote on the Quaker Ranter , "Apparently it’s that time of year again. The days grow shorter, the nights grow chillier, and we bemoan the death of blogging."  And Wess...

http://chrismsf.blogspot.com/2019/11/when-oak-leaf-is-enough.html

About a dozen people came to the Green Street Friends Meetinghouse on 1/14/2018 to hear Victoria Greene talk about her work with the EMIR Healing Center. She founded the organization in memor...

http://chrismsf.blogspot.com/2018/01/victoria-greenes-presentation-on-emir.html

Last fall I was blessed to co-lead the Inquirers' Weekend at Pendle Hill with Emma Lapsansky. We had a deeply engaged group of eight people on varying places in relation to Quakerism. One had a...

http://chrismsf.blogspot.com/2016/05/faith-to-move-mountains.html

I've been reading The Long Utopia, the latest and presumably last book in the Long Earth series by Stephen Baxter and the late Terry Pratchett. It occurred to me that the Fall's "Just Step S'wa...

http://chrismsf.blogspot.com/2016/05/just-step-sways.html

1. QUAKERS ARE A RELIGIOUS SOCIETY WITH A STANCE AGAINST PARTICIPATING IN WAR Quakers are a faith community. They have a collective position that participating in warfare is wrong and against t...

http://chrismsf.blogspot.com/2015/11/three-perspectives-on-friends-peace.html

I'm ridiculously happy to have been chosen as the photographic subject for the Facebook page announcement that WPRB-Stereo 103.3 FM has launched www.wprbhistory.org in this, its 75th anniversary ...

http://chrismsf.blogspot.com/2015/05/wprb-fms-75th-anniversary-website.html

From the Journal of George Fox, pg. 96: > "So dear Friends live all in the peaceable Truth and in the love of > it, serving the Lord in newness of life, for glorious thi...

http://chrismsf.blogspot.com/2015/04/gfox-quotable-quote.html

I attended the 2014 Stephen Cary Lecture at Pendle Hill, the Quaker retreat center in Wallingford, Penna., in April. The following are my notes, pretty much unedited. A sound recording of the ...

http://chrismsf.blogspot.com/2014/05/notes-from-2014-cary-lecture-by-william.html

." ."] Green Street Monthly Meeting, our liberal unprogrammed Friends meeting in Philadelphia, is looking at how to better integrate the children with the rest of the meeting -- though I doub...

http://chrismsf.blogspot.com/2013/08/approaches-to-having-children-in-quaker.html

I appreciate living in a large city again. For the four years before we left the SF Bay Area, we lived in a small city to the south of San Francisco. While technically it was in the suburbs, it w...

http://chrismsf.blogspot.com/2013/07/summer-living-in-city.html

I'm "going back" to Princeton for a day tomorrow, 6/1/2013. It's been 25 years since I graduated from the university there, and they have a big party for that kind of thing. As I reflect on tha...

http://chrismsf.blogspot.com/2013/05/ears-whose-drums-you-can-scratch-wprb-fm.html

My friend Christine Hoang is a parent at San Francisco Friends School. She coordinates the school's participation with the San Francisco Friends Meeting's neighborhood food pantry, which is a loc...

http://chrismsf.blogspot.com/2013/04/guest-post-quaker-food-pantry-by.html

Today in leading the Firstday School for our middle school/early high school group, I brought a few props to help me make some points. Among other things, I brought our sifter and our funnel. ...

http://chrismsf.blogspot.com/2013/03/vital-quaker-tools-kitchen-remix-version.html

Chris and Robin Mohr will host the documentary "Salt and Light" on Saturday, January 12, 2013, at 6:30 pm, as a way of reporting back from the 6th World Conference of Friends that they attended ...

http://chrismsf.blogspot.com/2013/01/documentary-and-discussion-at-green.html

So I went to the Quaker Revival in West Philadelphia on 12/6/12. I missed potluck and the very beginning of the service, because I went there right from the annual joint meeting of the Advisory ...

http://chrismsf.blogspot.com/2012/12/quaker-revival-in-west-philadelphia.html

A Friend today talked about wanting to worship with others who felt guided by something bigger than themselves, and that has agency. He doesn't care if that's God, or Christ, or Truth in an a-the...

http://chrismsf.blogspot.com/2012/03/guided-by.html

I know I still have things to say. More important, I have things to think and I must say or write before I know I think them. I only know this because I wrote that in my journal the other day!

http://chrismsf.blogspot.com/2011/11/write-to-think-think-to-write.html

Well, I left San Francisco Friends Meeting, but it hasn't left me -- thanks to the magic of meeting email lists. This report came through and its author, Markley Morris, agreed that I could post ...

http://chrismsf.blogspot.com/2011/10/10th-anniversary-of-san-francisco.html

As mentioned in my last post , I've been blessed to be able to take the summer off of paid work. Well, I had a lot of unpaid work to do, so it's not like I didn't keep busy. I did get to eat a fe...

http://chrismsf.blogspot.com/2011/09/last-day-during-my-sabbatical.html