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Jim videoed my talk on Simplicity. Once he's edited it he'll put it up on the Eastbourne Quaker website.

I stood at an improvised lectern. When was the last time I spoke that formally? Probably in the mid nineties. I remember being invited- as a Wiccan- to speak at a Christian training college to an audience full of Biblical fundamentalists. Afterwards, so I heard, some of the students held a cleansing service to rid the room of the heretical- not to say, Satanic- vibes.

I watched some of Jim's video. I see I haven't lost my pulpit skills and mannerisms.

And, oh my word, there are orbs- several of them- crossing the screen at the very beginning.

Sej can be heard in the background.

The actual talk came easy. What I found stressful was the free for all afterwards. Not that people were aggressive but that there were times when it seemed we might be about to lapse into a long embarrassing silence.

I closed things down after 50 minutes and we all toddled off to the kitchen to eat pizza and bread and dips and cakes...

And strawberries.

Because there were strawberries. Yes!