tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post7224767110746263098..comments2024-03-24T11:30:08.199-07:00Comments on Can you believe?: Vanity of vanities: partly a repostJohan Maurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13771067774042071617noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-72982305040230597872023-03-10T20:04:21.064-08:002023-03-10T20:04:21.064-08:00Thank you, Friends!
I'm eager to see how Frie...Thank you, Friends!<br /><br />I'm eager to see how Friends here will receive George Lakey. I notice that the Friends congregations on the section of his itinerary I put in my blog were once associated with Northwest Yearly Meeting, part of Evangelical Friends.<br /><br />He'll probably get a warm reception because he <i>generates</i> warmth. Whether we'll do better at lowering our class barriers after his visit, or (looking at your note, Tom) lowering our urban/rural barriers, remains to be seen. I have hopes!Johan Maurerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13771067774042071617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-66903706982667213282023-03-04T07:49:12.381-08:002023-03-04T07:49:12.381-08:00Johan, your post raises several questions for me p...Johan, your post raises several questions for me personally (a certified intuitive introvert who often has played a role as teacher, minister, and/or clerk in a "public" setting). My grandfather was a farmer with an 8th grade education who wanted his children to go to college, 3 did,2 didn't and were farmers, and my father ended up having a "para docs" (a somewhat paradoxical promise as Parker Palmer commented). I in turn have had a "para docs" who are married to PhDs and our third child is Director of universities libraries. The first two of our grandchildren are heading to PhD programs this coming year. This is a preface to say that our family is clearly an "upper class" one, even though the only one of our six (spouses included) children who makes anywhere near an upper class salary is the only one not working in higher ed. <br />The questions I have tend to be of a practical sort as to how to break down the barriers between "classes" or personality "types." <br />Another question(?) I have is how is George Lakey being received in Northwest Yearly Meeting or Sierrra Cascades? Is his form of breaking barriers between classes and also other social distinctions that have caused division among Friends as sexuality, forms of pacifism, etc.<br />I still remember the Indiana Yearly Meeting session on "disowning" the name Quaker from the Quaker Action Group delivering aid to North Vietnam that called for a special session that led to a series of "informational workshops" in Meetings of Indiana YM. I participated in several of these.<br /><br /><br /> Tom Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12194918323559385371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-64254442963517284272023-03-03T07:46:13.079-08:002023-03-03T07:46:13.079-08:00An excellent sharing, Johan. You’ve made my morni...An excellent sharing, Johan. You’ve made my morning.Marshall Masseyhttp://journal.earthwitness.orgnoreply@blogger.com