09/03/2026
I had brought the book out with me to the shore. My copy was bristling with bookmarks. I picked it up and told him which was my favorite epistle. Jody said, “Read it aloud. It was written to be read aloud.”
So I read to them, and to the chipmunks and ducks along the shoreline and the loons farther out, George Fox’s Epistle 163, with the line and paragraph breaks Ben had given it:
My dear friends,—
Live
in the life
in which is the unity and peace
one with another,
and lowliness and humbleness
of heart and mind
Political and cultural observations in light of Quaker discipleship.
