Friends from near and far, including Santa Cruz, Berkeley (both unprogrammed meetings and the Friends church), San Francisco, and Santa Rosa gathered to bid farewell to the wonderful co-directors of Ben Lomond Quaker Center at a picnic this Saturday.
I discovered Quaker Center online before I went to an actual bricks-and-mortar meeting. During those first two years, I had more Quaker connections with folks I met at Quaker Center than in my local meeting. Walter and Traci were touchstones of spiritual hospitality that sustained me during this time.
Despite a little melancholy, we managed to have a pretty good time. It's nice to get together, enjoy a potluck, and say nice things about someone before they're dead. And it was fun to catch up with Friends from all over, including several bloggers: me, Karen, Chris, Rebecca, and Lisa.
4 comments:
Thanks for the photos and the report, Linda! The boys & I were there, but we spent almost the entire time at the playground, except at the very beginning and very end. Thanks to Lisa for suggesting the blogger photo shoot!
-- Chris M.
Yay Linda! And now I've caught up a bit on your other posts, too. Thanks, Lisa
Linda -- You probably know this, but one of the new co-directors of BLFC was in our Sacred Harp workshop and needs opportunities to practice.
thanks Linda
I really appreciate that you all came to the good bye party and that we took a picture. We are now in Whyoming and hoping to make through nebraska today.
hope all is well in the other watershed.
peace
rebecca
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