Regime Change

[poliphilo]

 Quaker officers stay in position for three years. Alan, our clerk, has done his three years and has stood down. He is succeeded by Ailz and our friend Jackie- who will serve as co-clerks. They're people who get things done.  We were going to have a team of four- but the other two who were willing- myself and Edna- are already elders and it says somewhere in the Book of Rules That You Can Obey If You Want To that a person shouldn't hold the office of clerk and elder at the same time. Privately I'm relieved- and am happy to pretend that this rule is binding even though it isn't. I don't want to be running things- at least not in name- though I'm happy to function as an eminence grise....

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[poliphilo]

Quakers don't vote, instead they talk things over until something like a common mind is reached. They call this "discerning". In this case things went smoothly; Alan was ready to step down and Ailz and Jacky were happy to take over.