poliphilo

There were six of us talking at cross purposes with raised voices. D started it. He's a bag of nerves, afraid of his own shadow and with a propensity to project that shadow onto other people, but if I'm honest I must admit that a Situation like this has many makers- and I was one of them. The Quakerly thing would have been to say, "Let's sit down and work through the issues calmly, speaking one at a time"- but the Quaker way calls for superhuman levels of patience and forebearance and we're only human....

I think, to comfort myself, of the Pauline epistles and the Book of Revelation. Seems like those early Christians weren't so very Quakerly either. Paul certainly had a gob on him- and John the Divine was even worse.

The upshot was that D and his partner departed in clouds of dust and probably won't come back. They were tricky people to deal with, but gifted with it- and it's a terrible pity.

He's a musician. I watched one of his YouTube vids yesterday. You won't have heard of him but, yes, he's gifted....