September 2007
The ascent of Apple Pie Hill
Yesterday the kids and I took a road trip to Apple Pie Hill, a summit of loose gravel that towers over the South Jersey pinelands from a dizzying height of 208 feet above sea level. A fire watch tower on the summit adds another few dozen feet, enough to get a visitor over the treetops. On a clear day it’s said you can see the skylines of Atlantic City and Philadelphia. Fortunately for me it...
martin_kelley: naturalist reading this a.m. and beautiful day is inspiring the boys to go explore some pine barrens (via Twitter / martin_kelley)
martin_kelley: very cool new yorker article on manhattan before development, online slideshow at http://tinyurl.com/2xb8xc (via Twitter / martin_kelley)
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very cool new yorker article on manhattan before development, online slideshow at Link
http://twitter.com/martin_kelley/statuses/300924242 (via Quaker Ranter Martin Kelley)
links for 2007-09-29
Wess on child birth methods and natural birth unfriendly hospitals
(tags: checkback)
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my pro flickr account’s expired and i’m too broke to renew right now. anyone want to give a gift? Link
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Tweet (#298705292)
clouds moving across the almost-full moon in the pre-dawn sky are quite trippy
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Talking like a Quaker: does anyone really care...
Over on my design blog I’ve just posted an article, Banking on reputations, which looks at how the websites for high-profile cultural institutions are often built without regard to natural web publicity—there’s no focus on net culture or search engine visibility. The sites do get visited, but only because of the reputation of the institution itself. My guess is that people go to...
martin_kelley: my pro flickr account’s expired and i’m too broke to renew right now. anyone want to give a gift? http://www.flickr.com/gift/ (via Twitter / martin_kelley)
martin_kelley: clouds moving across the almost-full moon in the pre-dawn sky are quite trippy (via Twitter / martin_kelley)
Tweet (#298493452)
just-four yo theo picked up the concept of subtraction real easily today (j’s been teaching him too)
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martin_kelley: just-four yo theo picked up the concept of subtraction real easily today (j’s been teaching him too) (via Twitter / martin_kelley)
links for 2007-09-28
Qrs Engaging Jon on younger Friends building Community across the divides (via QuakerQuaker.org)
“In an increasingly pluralized society such as ours, the use of language can be a roadblock to getting to the heart of the matter and the communication among Friends bears this out. On the other hand, language is all we have…”
(tags: quaker quaker.convergent...
Blue Gal' on the unsafe space of Quaker worship →
“Get ready for real danger. The battle is not out there, and it is not in the seat next to you. The battle, like the light, is within, and it is as painful and un-safe as anything you may have experienced outside your own thought.”
Qrs Engaging Jon on younger Friends building... →
“In an increasingly pluralized society such as ours, the use of language can be a roadblock to getting to the heart of the matter and the communication among Friends bears this out. On the other hand, language is all we have…”
links for 2007-09-27
Will T on Barclay’s “Day of Visitation”
“The basic idea… is that there is a period of time in everyone’s life when they are open to hearing the voice of the Divine and acting on it. If they are attentive and obedient to this Divine Seed, it will grow and flourish in them…”
(tags: quaker quaker.conservative quaker.christianity)
Robin...
Talk Like a Quaker Day? (via QuakerQuaker.org) →
“In the same vein as International Talk Like a Pirate Day and National Quaker Week in the UK, I have decided to declare October (10thMonth) 24 (which just so happens to be U.N. Day and William Penn’s birthday) as International Talk Like a Quaker Day.”
Robin M goes Emergent, comes out a step closer to... →
“Long time readers of this blog may remember earlier steps in my process of becoming a christian. This workshop was another step towards really living the life, my conversion of manners, as Friends used to say.”
Will T on Barclay's "Day of Visitation" →
“The basic idea… is that there is a period of time in everyone’s life when they are open to hearing the voice of the Divine and acting on it. If they are attentive and obedient to this Divine Seed, it will grow and flourish in them…”
links for 2007-09-26
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...
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a flickr group “on the trail of south jersey folklore journalist h.c. beck! Link
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solidarity time Link
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martin_kelley: a flickr group “on the trail of south jersey folklore journalist h.c. beck! http://www.flickr.com/photos/93957686@N00/sets/7215759432697 … (via Twitter / martin_kelley)
Brent Bill's worship sharing group looks at... →
“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?..”
Qr Oats Cherice wonders about a Quaker response to... →
“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?”
Jez gathering in outside public worship in Hyde... →
“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.”
Sheffielder Craig B on Quaker save spaces vs a... →
“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.
Blog: Quaker school changed my life (via... →
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.
martin_kelley: solidarity time http://www.uaw.org/ (via Twitter / martin_kelley)
links for 2007-09-25
Ben Trott’s reblogging plug-in
Refeed builds reblogging into Movable Type: configure a list of RSS and Atom feeds that you want to pull in to your blog, and new posts in the feeds will be spliced into your main blog automatically.
(tags: tech tech.movabletype checkback)
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links for 2007-09-23
Baltimore Yearly Meeting report on Friends United Meeting
“It is difficult to remain a part of an organization which exhibits so little concern for our own BYM history and suggestions for policy and direction….It is also difficult to sever ties with part of our history.”
(tags: quaker quaker.liberal quaker.fum quaker.baltimore quaker.alienation)
Richard M:...
Baltimore and FUM from sessions to the static web...
One thing I love about the internet and blogs is that they’re opening up discussions in the Quaker world. Information and dialog that was once confined to a small group of insiders is opened up to what we might only-half jokingly label “the laity.” The latest few entries to QuakerQuaker show this in operation. Last month’s annual sessions of Baltimore Yearly Meeting (the...
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amazed Qr website would publish automatically-generated feed w/o keeping close watch for sex spammers, but it’s not my job to tell them
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Spontaneous trip to Longwood Gardens
Last week we left Julie’s church to find a beautiful late Summer afternoon so we took an unplanned road trip over to Pennsylvania’s Longwood Gardens. It’s not particularly close but it’s beautiful and its car-free acreage makes it very kid-friendly so we have memberships there (thanks to Martin’s Mom these last two years!). Below: scenes from Longwood’s Fall...
Johan Mauer starts a discussion on Baltimore's FUM... →
“It may be the most useful document ever produced by a member yearly meeting’s representatives in my memory, but only [if it’s] not mined for ‘bombshell’ value [and] the document’s users are willing to tease out management issues from theological issues.”
