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The Canadian Friend Vol The Canadian Friend Vol. 104, No. 2 May 2008 IN THIS ISSUE Get Thee to Camp NeeKauNis Protest and Truth Telling Around the Family The Canadian Friend May 2008 Volume 104, Number 2 The Canadian Friend (ISSN 0382-7658) is the Editorial: magazine of Canadian Yearly Meeting, and is published five times a year on its behalf by the Home Mission and Advancement Committee. The Raised by a Conscientious Objector who spent the ‘50s Canadian Friend is sent to all members of Canadian in the southern States struggling along with Blacks for civil Yearly Meeting and to regular attenders. It is funded rights, I learned early about protest and truth telling. All through quotas and free-will donations of the membership to further the work and witness of the risked their lives with the Ku Klux Klan every day. For some, Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Canada. the only protest available was running away. I remember * Articles, Poetry, Photos and Drawings visiting a family of sharecroppers who had no alternative to Submissions are always welcome, and need not enslavement to their landowner than to escape in the night to share the theme of the issue. Send to: Birmingham, to live in hiding, fearing for their safety. Sherryll Harris E-mail: [email protected] 1829 Fern St. Through the ‘60s I spent holidays, and later as a young Victoria, B.C. Canada, V8R-4K4 adult I lived with a family friend many readers knew - Mildred Telephone: 250-370-0190 Fahrni. She was invariably off to an embassy or somewhere * Advertising conspicuous with placards to protest war and injustice or Send camera-ready or clear, readable copy to the advocate for war resisters. As a kid participating in this editor, preferably by e-mail. Advertising rates and details are available on request. unpopular action I was uncomfortable and embarrassed. Telling the truth was difficult. * Subscriptions and Donations Subscription rates for one year are: $28.00 for She did what Spirit asked of her before the protest marches Canada, $39.00 CD for the U.S., $49.00 CD for other countries. Single copies are $5.60; with insert, were popular; stood alone with no apologies or doubts. In $7.60. We welcome donations to help cover the costs 1982, at a particularly large Peace march in Vancouver, of publication and distribution. Please contact: I remembered those earlier years and was proud of her Seán Hennessey, Business Manager E-mail: [email protected] commitment before the crowds joined in, before it was an Telephone: (250) 366-4372 easier, less conspicuous stand to take. Argenta, BC V0G 1B0 (Cheques are payable to The Canadian Friend.) Effective non-violent truth telling is not easy or convenient. * Reproduction I wish I were as brave as Mildred or her friend Muriel Copyright © 2008 is held by Canadian Yearly Duckworth, of whom she spoke many times (see pg. 22). Meeting. Please request permission before reprinting excerpts longer than 200 words. Thank God for the Mildreds and all those we know who have been and are unpopular for the sake of justice and peace. * Publications Mail Registration No. 09887 PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER This issue tells stories of various ways Quakers protest The cover is printed on 60%, and the pages injustice and tell the truth. I particularly love the scene set by on 30%, post-consumer recycled paper. the song The Rajah. Elizabeth Fry saw the truth of the situation and also knew the tools with which to overcome injustice. She understood, as Daisy Anderson states, “supported people NEW ADDRESS? PLEASE ADVISE US. become empowered people”. (See Daisy Anderson’s article Please send updated address information to: “Speaking Truth to Empower”, next issue). Canadian Yearly Meeting 91A Fourth Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1S 2L1 May we find inspiration and identify new role models. E-mail: [email protected] Tel: (888) 296-3222 and (613) 235-8553 May we become role models. Sherryll-Jeanne Harris In This Issue Always Unchanged, Ever Changing 4 Telling My Truth 15 Beverly Shepard Alison Prentice “Family Camp Kaleidoscope” 5 Editor’s Note 16 Beverly Shepard “The Rajah Quilt” 17 Resting in God’s Hands at Camp NeeKauNis 5 Cathy Miller John Lavin Book Review 18 Reflections: FWCC Triennial 2007 6 Catherine Verall Virginia Dawson and Rick McCucheon Consider an Action 19 “For what it’s worth”...Montebello and Me 7 Muriel Sibley Fiona McMurran I Know Protest; What is Truth? 20 Truth and Protest 10 Lynne Phillips Muriel Sibley Seeking the Truth 21 Book Review 10 Diana Mitchell Dick Preston Book Review: 22 “Alternatives to Violence” Workshops in Uganda 11 Arnold Ranneris Sheila Havard Long Distance Calling 23 A Critical Moment - How to support War Resisters 12 Margaret Slavin Some Messages About Protest and Truth Telling , “Of All The Songs” 23 From a conversation with Jack Ross 13 Bill Curry Linda Hill Advertisements 26 Protests Remembered 14 Toni Bacon Around the Family 24 & 27 Cover Credits: Photo by Ravi Josi. Far Back (left to right): Peter Earley, Ravi Joshi, Aiden Browne-Miller Back (left to right): Ashley Sorensen, Elise Gordezski, Tristan Green, Asher Segel-Brown, Sam Egan-Sheardown, Emily Fearon, Emily Bosman Front (left to right): Chloe Levine, Ian Graham, Meredith Wylie. Volume 104, Number 2 3 ALWAYS UNCHANGED, place and welcome new campers. EVER CHANGING In recent years there have been some big changes by Beverly Shepard at Camp. The size of our property was doubled by the acquisition of a neighbouring property, as well You’re sitting on a handmade wooden bench - as the house on it. This protects our beloved space or perhaps on the grass - at the top of a gentle hill, from encroachment by development on the west looking out over a tree-edged bay. It’s quiet. Blue side, as well as preserves many acres of habitat for sky and blue water are separated only by the line of wildlife, trees, and plants. We have a wheelchair- deep green. A gull flies over the bay. A wren carols accessible cabin, running water in all the cabins, in the rowan tree. A hummingbird darts to the new gardens, a hardwood floor and more windows feeder for a few sips. All around you are Friends in the Meeting Center, skylights in the dining like you, sitting quietly in the hush of worship room, and many kitchen improvements. The and gratitude for the beauty of creation. It almost comfort and accessibility of Camp improve while feels as though God might reach down and touch the spirit - both of the people of Camp and of its your cheek. Maybe that’s already happening. beautiful natural setting - remains, persists, and grows. That’s Meeting for Worship at Camp NeeKauNis. It’s a magical place, and the Hill But improvements and expansion cost money. where generations of campers have worshipped Our camp is struggling financially. Practically together for 75 years, is especially miraculous. So everything we do is done entirely by, or with the many spirits are gathered; their work, play, joys huge support of unpaid volunteers. We are faced and concerns permeate the ground, stones and with raising our rates again this year, and probably the wood of the buildings. If you have never been every year for quite a while. They are still about to Camp NeeKauNis, the only Quaker camp in the lowest costs you could find anywhere for the Canada and one of the great treasures of our Yearly type of accommodation and programs you’ll find Meeting, you have missed an experience of some at Camp, but for some they may pose an obstacle of the best that the Quaker faith has to offer. to coming to Camp. We strongly encourage Friends across Canadian Yearly Meeting to help Camp isn’t just a place to send your kids! It’s support Camp NeeKauNis by attending or by particularly loved by a devoted group of adults, donating or both. Even if you’re unlikely to come who keep it going and keep it affordable by doing to Camp yourself, you can help someone else to everything from mending screens to cooking, to come by donating directly to the Bursary Fund. building cabins, to teaching crafts. There really is This helps to reduce fees for those who need this something for everyone at NeeKauNis. assistance and provides travel bursaries for eastern This is an especially good year to consider and western Friends. Donations to any aspect coming to Camp. There are five new programs of Camp, of course are warmly welcomed. The offered on weekends during the season from May Memorial Fund honours many Friends who have through October, covering a wide range of interests: died and provides funds for special projects. The Quaker Peace Witness, 21 Plus (a mini-camp for General Fund keeps us going! adults in the traditional style), Spirituality and the Whether for a one-week or ten-day summer Creative Process, Birding, and Spiritual Practices. program, or a weekend in spring, summer, or You could get a taste of Camp without having to fall, come to Camp! It’s your camp, and there’s take time off work or plan for an extended stay. nowhere else like it. We welcome you! Our regular programs for children from ten years and up and for families of all kinds are still in Beverly Shepard, Hamilton Monthly Meeting 4 May 2008 - The Canadian Friend The most important thing was this: in all Family Camp Kaleidoscope that we did, we shared in it together. I wonder if We move, shift, this was how tribes in simpler times functioned? Come close in new ways, Why have we lost this capacity to work and share Seemingly random, together? Community seems to provide so much But we are reflected and take so little.
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