migration Posts

The Batsto Village Halloween party wasn't quite so much fun this year: their website didn't mention that most activities ended part-way through the afternoon so that the organizers could sit in front of the old houses giving out candy. We arrived on the late side so no face painting or pony rides for the boys butterflies. We still had fun in the first really autumn day of the season and Batsto was looking more bucolic than ever. More pictures (including some of the cool gearing in the old Batsto gristmill) over on yesterday's Flickr page.

Right: rare video footage of a Genus Franciscus Butterfly in migration.

• Blog: Quaker school changed my life (via QuakerQuaker.org)
  For the brilliant training that I recieved, I will always be grateful to the Quakers. They rescued me from a dim and drearly life, from isolation and affluence, into the powerful world of service and spirit.
  (tags: quaker.youth quaker)
• Sheffielder Craig B on Quaker save spaces vs a Quaker way
  "For many people the Quaker Meeting is primarily a 'safe space' - a place to be themselves, where they will be accepted ... without expectations or demands.... But for me there is something missing from this image.
  (tags: quaker quaker.liberal)
• Jez gathering in outside public worship in Hyde Park
  "It might not seem like much, especially if you've attended silent peace vigils, but taking your faith and way of meeting into the open, offering it up for view and possibly ridicule is a big step."
  (tags: quaker quaker.outreach)
• Qr Oats Cherice wonders about a Quaker response to immigration issues
  "What do you all think about this situation? Should we as Friends do something about the immigration issue? If so, what? If someone is an illegal immigrant, how should we help them? Should we break the law?"
  (tags: quaker quaker.witness)
• Brent Bill's worship sharing group looks at spiritual community
  "Does a spiritual community differ from a social community because instead of human-to-human relationships it is based on human-to-God-to-human relationships? Is it based on "a call" to join the group? Is it covenantal in nature?.."
  (tags: quaker quaker.community)

Just a quick note that I'll be upgrading this site over the next few days, part of a migration of all of my sites to the awesome new Movable Type 4.0. My apologies if commenting or search breaks during this process. Update: it seemed to have worked, now I'll have to break it by adding all sorts of experimental features!