Area Meeting
Nov. 17th, 2025 08:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo Our weather has been coming up from Spain but there's been a switcheroo and now it's coming down from the arctic- or so I'm told. Yesterday was warm (for the time of year) and damp and misty, today we have clear skies and there's a nip in the air.
There was ugliness at the Quaker Area Meeting yesterday. I won't go into details but the Area Clerk was pushed into resigning and those who had brought about their fall were inclined to crow about it. I was reminded of that scene in Julius Caesar where Brutus stands up at Caesar's funeral and lectures a shocked populace on how justified and virtuous it was of him to murder his friend. The chief crower was told (but in slightly more Quakerly terms) to shut the fuck up- and consequently left the meeting in a snit.
Friends are not supposed to carry on like this but (who knew?) they are actually just people....
The Meeting was held in the Lewes Meeting House- which is one of the old ones- with 1784 written over the door. The Meeting room is classic Quaker- a shoe box with big windows set high in the wall so Friends wouldn't be distracted by the passing scene- and a balcony at one end. There is new development round the back of the building, recently completed- which is modern, chaste and in keeping. There is also a sweet little front garden with gravestones. Wish I'd taken my camera.....
There was ugliness at the Quaker Area Meeting yesterday. I won't go into details but the Area Clerk was pushed into resigning and those who had brought about their fall were inclined to crow about it. I was reminded of that scene in Julius Caesar where Brutus stands up at Caesar's funeral and lectures a shocked populace on how justified and virtuous it was of him to murder his friend. The chief crower was told (but in slightly more Quakerly terms) to shut the fuck up- and consequently left the meeting in a snit.
Friends are not supposed to carry on like this but (who knew?) they are actually just people....
The Meeting was held in the Lewes Meeting House- which is one of the old ones- with 1784 written over the door. The Meeting room is classic Quaker- a shoe box with big windows set high in the wall so Friends wouldn't be distracted by the passing scene- and a balcony at one end. There is new development round the back of the building, recently completed- which is modern, chaste and in keeping. There is also a sweet little front garden with gravestones. Wish I'd taken my camera.....
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Date: 2025-11-17 05:35 pm (UTC)well that was awkward.
social dynamics can suck
mars is retrograde
the elders would say here
old problems float up to be revisited
an opportunity to fix an old habit.
if you do it right
next time its a different project that pops up.
america is retrograde that's why we got trump again. that and people were bored.
go back for pictures?
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Date: 2025-11-17 06:03 pm (UTC)I'm very likely to find myself at the Lewes Meeting House again quite soon. Lewes is our county town and about half an hour's drive from here.