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Author Archives: Jeff Kisling
Formula for Success
I can’t find the article I read recently, but I remember the formula for success that it was written about: stress + rest = growth Searching the Internet reveals there are a lot of articles about various formulas for success. … Continue reading
Reflections on a Quaker Annual Meeting
I just returned home from a week spent at Scattergood Friends School, where the annual meeting of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) was held. My blog posts are definitely not official or approved by the yearly meeting. This post is a … Continue reading
Posted in peace, Quaker Meetings, race, Uncategorized
Tagged asylum, Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative), Peace and Social Concerns
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Visual Leadings
Yesterday I tried to explain how I see photography as a spiritual practice. As often happens, I realized there was more I wanted to say. I tried to explain how my awareness of the beauty of the natural world being … Continue reading
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Photography as spiritual practice
As I wrote a month ago, the theme of the upcoming annual meeting of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) is “Being Centered in an Uncentered World.” The first evening session will be “Finding Truth and Beauty” where I will share my … Continue reading
Living the Change
As I wrote yesterday, I heard from Susanna Mattingly, the Sustainability Communication Officer for the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC). FWCC is joining a multi-faith campaign to work for sustainable living, called Living the Change. This encourages us to … Continue reading
Posted in #NDAPL, climate change, Quaker Meetings, Uncategorized
Tagged bicycle, Ethical Transportation
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Truth, Beauty and Bicycles
This morning I received this message from Susanna Mattingly, the Sustainability Communication Officer for the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC): I’m trying to select a few images that will represent Quakerism to faith groups all around the world. FWCC … Continue reading
Who am I?
My Quaker meeting, Bear Creek, is part of Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative). As the name implies, people who belong to this group of Quaker meetings come together annually for business, worship, learning and spending time with each other. … Continue reading
A Difficult Time
Yesterday’s meeting between the United States President and Russian leader Vladimir Putin represented the culmination of an administration that has upended many of the norms by which our government functioned and changed our relationships with other countries. There is much … Continue reading
“We Will Be Waiting”
The Keystone XL pipeline is back in the news. Wednesday, July 11, the Cheyenne Sioux River Nation in South Dakota received the following letter from TransCanada.The Cheyenne River tribe has opposed the Keystone pipeline since it was first proposed in … Continue reading
Posted in #NDAPL, civil disobedience, Indigenous, Uncategorized
Tagged Cheyenne Sioux River Nation, Keystone Pipeline
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Two-eyed Seeing
Two-eyed seeing “recognizes the benefits of seeing from one eye with the strengths of Indigenous ways of knowing, from the other eye the strengths of the Western ways of knowing, and using both of these eyes together to create new … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 