: Agreed to be backup Recording Clerk for my Meeting earlier this year, and had to actually perform my …
: Took a while to persuade the flock to come over the hill for hay this morning
: I think I just updated a very vanilla Drupal site to a new version, so I’m pretty sure I’m super …
: In case anyone wants a good podcast on the history of trans kids by Jules Gill-Peterson, focused …
: Sat down to write yesterday and was reminded that writing is hard, and also that clearing the brush …
: One thing that The Writer and the Critic captures about Saint of Bright Doors that I’m grateful for …
: For most of my life, I could go days or weeks without thinking about how society perceives me. For …
: Second round, 5-year old figured out “double yellow” to turn around and taking a more circuitous …
: Thinking about a biblical and Quaker exhortation to “be not conformed to the patterns of the world” …
: We keep the sheep away from the goat feeding bowls because otherwise they push the goats away, but …
: Starting Nicola Griffith’s “Menewood”. Really enjoyed both “Hild” and “Spear” and so far “Menewood” …
: When the Corrie’s introduce Barrett’s Privateers as an actual 18th Century song, I wonder if they’re …
: A few preliminary thoughts on Kai Ashante Wilson's "Sorceror of the Wildeeps" I just finished re-reading “Sorceror of the Wildeeps” which remains excellent. I’m …
: Nice morning with the sheep including one old lady who gets her own flake
: Two recent joys - teenager giving younger sibling a piggyback ride, and cats relaxing on our quilt
: Oddly, I can read again, and here’s your reminder that Kai Ashante Wilson’s “Sorceror of the …
: The age-old (or I suppose somewhere between 300 and 400 year old) #Quaker Query is “How does the …
: Completed (and memorialized) my civic duty/taking out the trash.
: An advice from New England Yearly Meeting #quaker “Have joyful worship. Do not always be somber.”
: Some lovely late autumn berries in our swamp on a crisp fall day
: “Stand still, wait for divine guidance, then act” - New England Yearly Meeting Advices number 8 …
: Ironically, one of the bills I testified against last year, which passed, required parental …
: Gotta love getting the text from kiddo that the “mock election” getting staged at school also …
: This is, indeed, uncanny. Who goes Nazi, Yale Law School edition - Lawyers, Guns & Money
: “since we have torn down every institution that brought liberals together, from the union hall to …
: And an Advice from New England Yearly Meeting (the sixth, in fact) - “Ground your spiritual life in …
: Part of prepping wool to spin into yarn is washing - scouring - it. Green Mountain Spinnery has the …
: 13-year old is a somewhat picky eater and needs to get some more calories. Anyone have …
: “We are confident that we can hear God, now, in the present, if we will still our hearts and listen. …
: What will I do when I am asked to lie? The thing about attending Quaker Meeting is the promise that God speaks, and that in each of us is …
: Read the intro to Ta Nehisi Coates’ The Message, and my first thought was to hand it my 13-year-old …
: 5th grader is educating classmates on respecting pronouns and also asking their teacher for the same …
: I mean how else are you supposed to spend your time after getting vaccinated?
: This is an absolutely bonkers story about a 14 year old just calling/writing to major SFF figures, …
: Went for a walk yesterday and found an old family cemetery not far up the road from us. Headstones …
: NEYM Advices & Queries number 6- “Ground your spiritual life in your own experience of the …
: Harvesting some of our goldenrod for a dyepot, which should end up turning more yarn into something …
: Morning chores - the left door in the picture became in-hinged a while back & I fixed it over …
: Two days of Quaker Ministry A somewhat long post about two days of Quaker Ministry. Yesterday at my in-person Meeting we had …
: The thing about a high-tension wire is that if your anchors break, you can get a pretty big gap.
: Op Ed by the AFSC NH Program Director about my state yet again choosing to hurt people when it …
: Nice way to start the morning with kids and flock
: Obligatory First Day of School social media overshare (including pronoun pins)
: “Face your fears and your powerlessness. Have faith.” New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult …
: New England Yearly Meeting sets apart the Advices from Young Adult Friends in the midst of the rest …
: Current bedside reading … seeing if I can catch up to Kip
: Saw a snake swimming and a heron while out kayaking with kiddos today. Also a capsize, and probably …
: Probably the last paddock of rotational grazing before we put them back in the main pasture for the …
: “Trust that the Inner Light can lead us beyond our individual perceptions and desires into action …
: A black goat stands of a rectangle outlined by red bricks, and mostly covered in gravel. Behind her …
: Pasture with new clover & volunteer pumpkins
: Pennington - Give over thine own willing Give over thine own willing, give over thy own running, give over thine own desiring to know or be …
: How it started / How it’s going (Sheep in portable netting, and then in their main pasture after a …
: I have, I think, migrated jsuttonmorse.me over to micro blog. So that and the new Quaker …
: Left the sheep in a well-grazed paddock a bit too long and woke up to a bust-out. Fortunately they …
: I reallyy enjoy Johan Maurer’s weekly #Quaker reflections & links …
: Found some breakfast while out cleaning the barn. Also, a distant supervisor
: After a day of fasting (and anti-parasitic yesterday evening) we let the sheep out on a fresh …
: Well, that’s interesting - the 300 character limit definitely hits some-but-not-all Quaker Advices …
: “Worship is our response to an awareness of God. We can worship alone, but when we join with others …
: For hoof trim day, I hug goats
: Very surprised and pleased to hear that Hugo’s appear to have done not one but multiple Good Things, …
: It’s hoof trim day! (16 sheep, 2 goats)
: Took the kids to a local sunflower festival
: “I’ll just do my tantrum while I go potty and all the way to getting donuts.” -Cricket (4 1/2)
: Yay!! Track Changes: Selected Reviews is Out in the World!
: Work Slack book recommendation request for SF books was only about half white dude authors, and …
: Lovely pink flower among our grass today
: First load of winter hay, including some Goat QA
: “Take heed, dear Friends, to the promptings of love and truth in your hearts. Seek to live in …
: Had some supervisors for morning barn chores.
: Had some help with part of my NEYM Sessions tech support today
: Lovely butterfly on a very tall thistle today.
: amorvincat.wordpress.com/2024/01/1… When I say “Spirit says to me…” how can you know that I …
: Present History Sometime in the late 19th Century, a pair of Quaker missionaries from South China, Maine, traveled …
: In spite of the way that it is I discovered Hadestown (the Musical) a while ago. I think first “Why We Build the Wall” on an NHPR …
: Psalm 23 We had a number of messages at meeting today centered around Psalm 23 The Lord is my shepherd; I …
: Why Quaker And when all my hopes in them and in all men were gone, so that I had nothing outwardly to help me, …
: 2023: Richard III by William Shakespeare 📚 - Henry VI parts I-III were a bit hit or miss for me, but …
: On my shelves: The Book of Delights by Ross Gay 📚
: Currently reading: The Frozen Crown by Greta Kelly 📚 - it’s interesting. the (sometimes …