Archive for October, 2009

Quaker Videos

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

A young friend made this rap video at Pendle Hill, a Quaker retreat center in Pennsylvania, and it includes some folks associated with my Quaker Meeting in New Hampshire. The words talk about how the Quaker emphasis on direct experience puts it outside what is traditionally thought of as Christianity, but in direct relationship to the Christ spirit. Besides that… it’s Fun!

Our Meeting (monadnockfriends.org) is having a series of events called Quaker Quest this month, which is aimed at getting the word out about Quakers. Please feel free to drop by, physically or via the Web.

My Dad’s Record-breaking Ascent of Longs Peak

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Some cousins visited us this week, and we unearthed a few treasures of family history. It has long been a family story that my father held the record for the ascent of fourteen-thousand-foot Longs Peak in the Colorado Rockies. Now we have some concrete evidence in the form of a contemporary article from

A Coordinated Police Brutality Campaign?

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

The violent suppression of a peace rally last week in Rochester, NY, which can be seen at
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_seyret&Itemid=91&task=videodirectlink&id=4702

and the use of military sonic weapons at the Pittsburgh protests against the G20 meeting a few weeks ago have me wondering why the police seem so intent on intimidating dissenters at this point in history. What was the difference between the peaceful and un-police-molested

Automated needn’t mean cruel

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

The University where I work has adopted