Gaia Voices

Well!
I DO know how to keep my life interesting!
(.: Do you really think it is “I” that is doing this?!)
I would say the history I am about to review was triggered in part by my experience of Abounding Love at the FGC Gathering in early July.
(I have heard of several others who have also experienced […]

Summary, June 14 to July 18
Whew! What a month of activity!
With the deadline of the Friends General Conference Gathering looming, I finally got going on making a presentable Quaker Community Forest (QCF) website. I featured some of our activities where I have good pictures and where the focus is on building our spiritual connection with […]

Ah, how to not lose focus on my core mission when an acquaintance is in trouble and asks me for help?
I don’t have an answer to this question, but part of the answer is “Don’t give up,” and I’m back.
With scant weeks to go before presenting Quaker Community Forest (QCF) at the Friends General Conference […]

Whew!
I am being myself here, on my website, in a way I find very fulfilling. “This is what I need to do!”
Now, I have to admit, when I can get any distance on my material at all, when I imagine seeing what I have written with the eyes of others:

It looks […]

Well! A lot has happened, including things not happening, and I am feeling satisfied.
The things that have not happened are that I posted no summary at the end of February, and last Friday I posted nothing at all, despite indicating that I would do both of those things.
I have asked myself, “Richard, why aren’t your […]

Advice supposedly given to medieval knights in search of the Holy Grail:
“Enter the forest where it is darkest.”
I’ve always liked that, because I experienced it as a profound challenge and, likely, a useful guide.
I definitely feel that, in my conversation with you, dear friends, these last five weeks, I have plunged right into some of […]

Well, here’s the summary I’m hoping to produce at the end of each month. (My idea is that something very much like this will go out each month to a mailing list of Gaia Voices subscribers.)
I have been thrilled by what I have been able to accomplish in the last month. I am now writing […]

Whoa, it’s been tough to get going! The last post felt like kicking out the door of a room I had locked myself into. I don’t really understand what is happening, but I don’t really expect to, and I’m going to trust the process. What’s important is that I have begun.
Most of what I’m doing […]