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I look around at the Friends assembled for the Area Meeting and think, "But we're all so old!" No-one appeared to be under 40- and the bulk of us were in our 70s- and 80s. I know there are young Quakers because I've met them, but none of them were in Eastbourne yesterday.
There were 56 of us. That's the most who have attended such a Meeting in recent years. Our Meeting Room was only just big enough.
Much of what we did was tedious and pointless. We're too small an organisation to conduct ourselves with so much formality. We should be ducking and diving like partisans, not plodding along like an Imperial army.
The value of these get-togethers is mainly in the gaps and not in the programme. I met two new people I was glad to get to know- a chap who has visited Heaven while still in the body and a gentle, spiritual, 70 year old cross-dresser. We're an odd lot. Oddity is our glory. I didn't want to show up yesterday and I hated a lot of the procedure but I came away feeling I'd been among my people.....
There were 56 of us. That's the most who have attended such a Meeting in recent years. Our Meeting Room was only just big enough.
Much of what we did was tedious and pointless. We're too small an organisation to conduct ourselves with so much formality. We should be ducking and diving like partisans, not plodding along like an Imperial army.
The value of these get-togethers is mainly in the gaps and not in the programme. I met two new people I was glad to get to know- a chap who has visited Heaven while still in the body and a gentle, spiritual, 70 year old cross-dresser. We're an odd lot. Oddity is our glory. I didn't want to show up yesterday and I hated a lot of the procedure but I came away feeling I'd been among my people.....
