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Resource list for thinking about the violence in Gaza (human beings at our worst) and what we can do about it (human beings at our potential best)

Special edition because of the violence in Gaza. The Peace and Social Justice Committee of Friends Meeting at Cambridge, responding to calls heard for information and action suggestions, offers this resource list. Selected and organized by Skip Schiel with help from others. Feel free to suggest other resources. The American Friends Service Committee invites you […]

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Slices of 2022-Conclusion

Inspired by traditional end-of-year letters from others, never having written one myself, I’m motivated to try now. Yes, a little late. But with a twist: save for last (if ever) what tends to come first in most letters—family and travels, possibly health but usually not—and begin with what’s for me juiciest. My letter will be […]

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Notes for a forum: “And you will be carried where you do not wish to go: a photographic witness”

Invited by Friends Meeting at Cambridge, on May 22, 2023 I offered a forum on the topic of my spiritual journey—”spiritual” for meaning as deep as possible. It was part of a series of weekly talks by participants in our community and others, mostly on personal spiritual journeys, and other topics as well. Some religious […]

My photographic life

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera. —Dorothea Lange My photographic life began when I was 7 years old on the Southside of Chicago, 1946, just one year after World War Two ended and the US unleashed the first use of nuclear weapons, a period I do not recall but […]

On my way to and from the land called Holy (a memoir of my work in Palestine-Israel)

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie — Dust unto dust — The calm sweet earth that mothers all who die As all men must; Mourn not your captured comrades who must dwell — Too strong to strive — Each in his steel-bound coffin of a cell, Buried alive; But rather mourn […]

Folding Bike Photography in Detroit-part 2: Faith & Disappointment

The city as a living entity with it being an environment for—and in turn, an environment being created by—the people who give it heart and pulse. I will observe, with intimate photographic scrutiny, these individuals as I encounter them during participation in the daily life of the city. (Yet, I will respect their ethical right […]

Photographing an action at the West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline

We can do it, you know. We can get there. We can have it all. The Third Millennium AD can be the green millennium, the time in which we learn to live as responsible human beings at last. There is no law, natural or divine, which demands that the world we live in become poorer, […]

Detroit’s Seeds of the New Miracle (or Bust), 2014 :: 2 :: Quakers in Detroit, murder in Detroit, bicycling in Detroit

PHOTOS Excerpts from my journal November 10, 2014, Monday, Detroit Cool, upper 30s, 80% cloudy with altocumulus, calm. Yesterday, Sunday [November 9, 2014], a day departing from my more usual Detroit days: attend Detroit Friends Meeting in the morning where I met a few people like Peter and Mike who provided photographic leads (later Peter very […]

For the Seventh Generation: the People’s Climate March

Spontaneous Quaker Meeting for Worship Be patterns, be examples in all countries, places, islands, nations wherever you come; that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them; then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone; whereby in them you may be a […]

British Quakers Urge Recognition of Palestine, a comprehensive arms embargo on all sides, and an end to Israel’s blockade of Gaza and occupation of Palestine

Gaza and the West Bank of Palestine and Israel The scarf lining the route between Atomic Weapons Establishment Aldermaston and Burghfield | Photo: Photo: Luke Massey. “Several hundred protesters [from Britain Yearly Meeting] were on hand Saturday, 9 August 2014, for the unfurling of an enormous pink scarf along the seven miles of road between […]

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