Meeting for Worship with a Concern for Silver Bay

by Carl Blumenthal
Brooklyn Meeting

for Joan Malin

Dockside,

in our wooden rocking chairs,

we face the opposite shore

where hills of white pine and red oak rise

like high-backed benches.

Herring gulls careen,

ministers of wind and water.

Clouds flee as if sinners on the lam.

And the lake is as calm as

Please Eat the Dandelions

by Victoria Quesada
Hamilton Meeting

I once watched a television commercial where a neighbor screamed “kill them all”—and the object of their wrath was a dandelion. The name dandelion derives from the French dent de lion meaning “lions tooth.” The dandelion is one of the most generous and useful plants to ever offer its gifts to mankind and yet, many folks put poison in our earth and water to kill it. Go figure.

The Dark Side of Community

by Karen Tibbals
Rahway Plainfield Meeting