by Michael Griffith | 4 Jun, 2023
Reflections on Poetry and Spirit: Judith Wright: Environmental, Indigenous and Spiritual Concerns. Michael Griffith, New South Wales Regional Meeting In early March this year I was fortunate to be able to lead a Silver Wattle week-long workshop/ retreat on this topic....
by Bruce Henry | 4 Dec, 2022
Openings and closings Bruce Henry, Victoria Regional Meeting and Presiding Clerk Openings and Closings for me Most people wonder if the job they have is right for them. Parker Palmer struggled to find his vocation. He gave up his job as a community organiser and...
by Friends School | 5 Dec, 2021
The Peter Jones Peace Prize Ayah Anwer, The Friends School Peace its own prize The Peter Jones Peace Prize is held annually at Friends’ High School. It’s a writing competition in which students submit poems, reflections, essays or speeches that reflect on what peace...
by Jill Parris | 5 Dec, 2021
Soul Strangled To sit with a soulA soul rent apartA soul shatteredA soul without hopeTo sit with such a soulAnd listen to tornRemembranceOf a spent flameFlickering angrilyUntil the splutter stopsWith will spent.The willTo struggle, to search,To reach outGone.This...
by Dorothy Scott, Carol McDonough | 4 Sep, 2021
Writing From the Heart We were inspired by the Silver Wattle Quaker Centre online course, Writing from the Heart, led by Kerry O’Regan, in which we had been gently invited to let our writing become courageous. While living a couple of hundred kilometres apart, a...
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