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Recovering Civility
April 7, 2022 Jim Newby Comment

I was honored to be part of the Martin Luther King Day Commemoration on January 17, which ended with our presentations at the Cincinnati Music Hall. Due to COVID, our program was held on Zoom, with only those of us in the program inside at Music Hall. I had the

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Celebrating Mary
April 1, 2022 Judy Leasure 2 Comments

She was a light in the world, quick to comfort others, kind, soft-spoken and a true and dear friend. For those reasons and so much more, we will miss and remember our Mary. Mary Peck was 95 years young when she left us on January 5, 2022. She had been

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“For I was hungry and you fed me.”
March 30, 2022 Judy Leasure Comment

In response to the ongoing and growing humanitarian crisis brought about by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, our CFM Peace and Social Concerns Committee has made a $500 donation to World Central Kitchen to assist with feeding refugees. This is in addition to a donation from  our Meeting to Wilmington

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Always Partly Broken
February 24, 2022 Ray Geers Comment

ALWAYS PARTLY BROKEN, by the writer, Raymond Geers, is a novel based on a true story – my life story. I decided to present the story as literary fiction, the focus being on the way the narrator wrestles with the past in his present state of mid-life crisis. Here is

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Remembering Jim Crocker-Lakness
February 17, 2022 Jeff Arnold 5 Comments

I first met Jim Crocker-Lakness about 15 years ago, when he and Jean started attending Cincinnati Friends Meeting. They had previously attended Community Friends Meeting, and also Heritage Unitarian Universalist.  I knew right away that Jim was a “seasoned Friend,” with a long history of involvement in Quaker thought and

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