Stumbling blocks to stepping stones

A way of extending the spiritual autobiography project I have been engaged in for over 40 years and exploring where Quakers and my Inward Teacher have taken and are taking me.

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Thursday, March 02, 2017

Quaker Alphabet Blog 2015-2017 - V for Verses

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As I said in a much earlier post , Friends in the past have felt ambivalent about both reading and writing poetry. Some, like Mary Southw...

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Quaker Alphabet Blog 2015 - J for Joy

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Still rather stuck with my blog, even after I for Interruption , at last I found a subject for J but have found it difficult to write...

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Quaker Alphabet Blog 2014 - N for Nostalgia

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I've been thinking about nostalgia quite a bit recently, partly because I've been spending time scanning old family photographs...

Thursday, July 03, 2014

Quaker Alphabet Blog 2014 - M for Mary Southworth Mollineux

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Mary Southworth was born in 1651 and brought up in Lancashire, possibly in Warrington. She was an only child and, her cousin tells us, was ...

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Quaker Alphabet Week 7 - D for May Drummond

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George Drummond Provost of Edinburgh May Drummond was born about 1710 in Edinburgh. She came from an eminent family, her eldest br...

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Gil S: Skipton, Yorkshire, United Kingdom; I am a retired librarian who writes and reads a lot and sometimes needs to make things. As a Quaker I am continuing to work on my spiritual autobiography project. In 2010 I started work on a biography of the Quaker travelling minister Catherine Payton Phillips 1727-1794.

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