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Quaker writer living in rural North Carolina. Fiction, random thoughts, occasional country songs at https://vickiwinslow.substack.com/.
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"Taking care to enlarge our circles, to make room for more in what we think of as our Quaker family, is a task to which Spirit is calling us," Gabriel Ehri writes in his introduction to this month's issue dedicated to neurodiversity among Quakers.

Quid, meet quo.

The world is terrible but this is me with my first dog, Walter, circa 1963.

"Should we now be sensible of what [God] requires of us, and through a respect to the outward interest of some persons... neglect to do our duty in firmness and constancy[,] it may be that by terrible things in righteousness God may answer us in this matter.” Woolman's warning remains relevant!

"as with the war, Zelensky didn’t start this Oval Office exchange. Was he supposed to tolerate an extended public denigration of the Ukrainian people, who have been fighting a war for survival for three years?” — WSJ edit board Gift link: www.wsj.com/opinion/puti...

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WNC is still recovering from Helene flooding. www.threads.net/@belovedashe...

Hampton Dellinger, American hero. www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/26/t...

Q: how to 6x DOGE savings ($2.5b)? A: Cut subsidies to Tesla ($15b)

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“My siblings and I grew up believing that, whatever else our country was doing in the world, our society was willing to share its success.” Jon Lee Anderson writes about growing up in a U.S.A.I.D. family and the impact of the agency’s dismantling.

I have to say it broke me a bit that these packets of lifesaving food assistance say on them: "From the American people"