Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Quakers 101



Note from a PNW Friend: my daughter worked hard as a babysitter, saved her money, and is right now buying a larger aquarium for her friend Barry, a python. I'm proud that she would share her good fortune with a fellow creature, a member of the reptile kingdom.

Quakers tend to be somewhat eclectic in their choice of Friends and fellow travelers, one of our liberal hallmarks as "among the unprogrammed" (deprogrammed?). Jesus is a role model here in that he liked hanging out with tax collectors (we have those too), Roman soldiers, other people the zealots would never rub shoulders with (cuz they're zealots, i.e. "left behinders").

Here's one of me eating sushi with friends in Seattle: