by Richard Fuller Wow! What a ride! My assistant clerk, Anne Supplee, and I celebrated out last day on the job on August 31. We had a running query through our term which I believe we repeated to each other monthly: “Are we (still) having fun?” The shared answer has always been “yes!” And it [...]
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Time To Shake The Piggy Bank For A Good Finish To Our Construction
Friends, we need some more money to bring our building construction to a good conclusion. “How much more money?” That’s a chicken and egg question. The construction which is being supervised by MOMSAH continues to go well, and the end is mid-October, the date promised by Whole Builders all along. The TCFM “Design Team” and [...]
“School of the Spirit”
Marian Van Dellan of Rochester Monthly Meeting sent us a copy of a brochure from THE SCHOOL OF THE SPIRIT. I was impressed enough that I have pasted the contents below. (The text was formatted for a traditional tri-fold sheet of paper, so it loses something in the translation, but you can get the basic [...]
Clerk’s mail, 3/15/09- Prison Visitation
Dear Friends, Here’s a mailing we received that I feel moved to pass on, about visiting in prisons: –RF Members of our Meeting that I know of, Mary Beth Young and Warren & Dorothy Thomsen have many years of experience with prison visitation. There may be others. ————- Cover Letter March 2, 2009 Dear Friends: [...]
Summary of Friend IN Residence vs. Friend OUT OF Residence Meeting
Summary of the 2-22-09 discussion about the importance of having a FiR living in the TCFM Meetinghouse Most of the 22 attenders at the meeting expressed a clear preference, and all who did said they would like to see a Friend in Residence (FiR) living in the building. All those not present who sent their [...]
Do we need a Friend IN Residence, or is an offsite caretaker OK?
Having investigated our needs for classrooms, we now turn our attention to the FIR side of the equation. Does TCFM need a Friend in Residence (FIR)? Would a non-resident caretaker be able to perform the same functions adequately? We will have information-sharing and discussion of the issues on Sunday, February 22, at the Meetinghouse, from [...]
Urge Obama to ban torture?
Declaration of Principles for a Presidential Executive Order On Prisoner Treatment, Torture and Cruelty Raquel Wood has sent a letter to TCFM and other Friends meetings. It includes the declaration, below, with the following cover note. For Twin Cities Friends Meeting January 7, 2009 At the Monthly Meeting for Business on last Sunday evening, January [...]
Improve Our Children’s Classrooms?
By Richard Fuller Quick Summary Soon we will need to plan to rebuild the space that was formerly the Friend in Residence (FiR) apartment. We could rebuild the apartment as it was in 2007. We could rebuild it as was in 1995 –a small one-bedroom apartment– and gain another classroom/meeting-room. We could rebuild the whole [...]
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