This week the hospital where I work started re-deploying many of its staff to help address changing needs during the current coronavirus outbreak. Instead of ministering to people in my usual physical therapy job, my new task is administering a thermometer, taking the temperature of each person who walks through
Managing Coronavirus Anxiety
If you have some anxiety about the coronavirus, here is a skill you might find useful. My psychotherapist taught me that anxiety starts with the emotion of fear in the body. For me, the fear usually showed up in my tense face and gut. Then my brain kicked in, producing
Remembering Our Beloved Departed
Cincinnati Friends mourn the loss of two individuals who brought Light and love to our Meeting. Mildred Griswold Mildred Griswold, our oldest member, passed away January 30, 2020, at the age of 102. She had been a member of our Meeting since November 8, 1964. She and her daughter, Sandy,
FCNL Wants to Hear Your Voice
Every two years, the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) reaches out to Quaker meetings across our nation for input that will direct their congressional advocacy and lobbying on behalf of issues that Quakers care about. They are currently preparing to develop their priorities for the upcoming 117th Congress for
Faces of Addiction
Faces of Addiction started as an awareness project to create a fresh understanding of addiction and addicted people through portraits and life stories. It turned out to be much more. About 60 addicted persons were interviewed and photographed, and 55 of those images and narratives have appeared in art shows