The Wren from Carolina

The Wren from Carolina

by | 24 Feb, 2025

The Wren from Carolina Mary Oliver (1935 –2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Being in nature was her passion and the means through which- despite many difficulties in her life-  she found the capacity to open to the...

One non-theist’s tale

by | 2 Mar, 2021

One non-theist’s tale David Swain, New South Wales Regional Meeting Let’s start with my history.  I came from a nominally Anglican family.  We didn’t go to church often, partly because we lived on a farm some distance from town. Services at our local village...

Know Thy Friend: Kerry O’Regan

by | 2 Jun, 2019

When I reflected on how I came to be a Quaker, I kept going back and back, following the strands of influences in my life, to my earliest memories of childhood. So I think, in order to answer the question, I’ll have to start there and develop the answer in a meandery...

Writing at an Oak Table.

by | 16 Nov, 2012

Dennis Dorwick, New South Wales regional Meeting. I am seated at a heavy oak table in the State Library of NSW to read the first two sentences of a book, a copy of which I seem to have lost in a recent move. A card pocket has been partially removed by its previous...