Blessings and singing

 Entering the Quaker Meeting House, an aromma of making popcorn greeted us last Saturday afternoon. We gradually met in two areas of chairs...one for the Sahara Peace Choir, and one for friends and family. This hadn't been a publicly announced program, and Helen and I were happy to be friends to enjoy this!

I liked fining this poster ready for another march, as Quakers are known for their social actions.

Here the choir members get ready by having all the sheets of music they will be singing in honor of the various divine feminine godesses who represent waters.

A lovely wall hanging in the food prep area of the meeting house.

An easy sharing of beautiful voices. I was able to meet a few new friends. I have some old friends from when I sang with this choir, the name of which is a combination of the two major religious forces from feminine mothers Sarah and Hagar - in the Bible. Sah-hara Peace Choir. May there be a coming together for these two again in peace.

These three beautiful females represent three generations, with our blinking grandmother having her birthday this day!

Here we find out what the popcorn was all about...an environmental way to send blessings onto the Swannanoa River.

Some of us stayed on shore, while later (not shown here) others indulged in walking into the shallow rockbottomed river.

An older view of the river taken at the same locatiom 2016

Another view of the river, taken 2019.

Today's quote:

Pray, verb. 

To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. 

-Ambrose Bierce, writer (1842-1914)