All is for Joy

by Sally Campbell
Morningside Meeting

I have read that Herbert Hoover’s mother was read out of meeting because she sang her father’s favorite hymn at his memorial meeting. Fortunately there was another Quaker meeting in West Branch, Iowa, that took her in.

My Life is Music

by Susan Weisfeld
Scarsdale Meeting

Two Songs We Sing

by Garry Thomas
Ithaca Meeting

I have two suggestions for Spark’s list of the songs we sing. One is sacred (as in religious): the hymn “As We Leave This Friendly Place.” This song to a Bach melody is always the last song my wife and family sing at worship gatherings in our intentional summer cabin community in the Pennsylvania woods.