Thursday, July 28, 2022
I've been a little discouraged lately, still mourning Maurine (see below), and mired in stupid and petty tech problems with Cloud Quakers. I logged on the other day to CQ, and it wouldn't honor me as host without a "host code," but my zoom password wouldn't work for that, and I didn't have time to dig through my zoom account to find it. It was meeting time! Maybe I should make a habit of logging into the site two or three times a week just to be sure it keeps running.
Then comes the ability to show off my pop art, or anything, for that matter, while I'm up there. I should be able to. I should be able to make a live transcript available also. I have to continue working on that.
Quakers are gathering nationwide. FGC had its gathering in early July; Iowa Yearly is gathering now. I have no idea about Illinois; I think it's already passed. But I'm kind of in despair at missing a lot of these gatherings as well.
There are Quakers, I know, in the Galesburg area. There used to be a meeting here. Ideally I could revive that meeting, or have something, some kind of fellowship in the Galesburg area. I know it's a nice town; it's been good to me already; I'm feeling like I've been called here and am in the best place for myself. But my hands are more than full with CQ and I haven't had the impulse to reach out in any dramatic hurry. We have an exasperating personal situation that has to be worked out before other things will fall into place, I think.
More on that later. I feel the morning light shining through our Galesburg neighborhood, and am grateful to have come this far.
Then comes the ability to show off my pop art, or anything, for that matter, while I'm up there. I should be able to. I should be able to make a live transcript available also. I have to continue working on that.
Quakers are gathering nationwide. FGC had its gathering in early July; Iowa Yearly is gathering now. I have no idea about Illinois; I think it's already passed. But I'm kind of in despair at missing a lot of these gatherings as well.
There are Quakers, I know, in the Galesburg area. There used to be a meeting here. Ideally I could revive that meeting, or have something, some kind of fellowship in the Galesburg area. I know it's a nice town; it's been good to me already; I'm feeling like I've been called here and am in the best place for myself. But my hands are more than full with CQ and I haven't had the impulse to reach out in any dramatic hurry. We have an exasperating personal situation that has to be worked out before other things will fall into place, I think.
More on that later. I feel the morning light shining through our Galesburg neighborhood, and am grateful to have come this far.
