“When I was younger I looked at people with curiosity. But now I think my main job is to look at everyone with tenderness.”

Friends are invited to a Memorial Meeting for Worship for Barbara Barry on Saturday, April 2 at 2pm at our Hector Meetinghouse (5066 Perry City Road).

The Memorial Meeting will be held outside, under a tent. Dress for the weather. We have not set a limit on the number of people who can attend. Please wear a mask, unless eating or drinking, or giving a message during worship.

 

Bronwyn Mohlke and Melissa Travis Dunham are organizing this on behalf of the Meeting, and in conjunction with the family. If you are willing and available to help on the day of the memorial, let one of them know. Tasks they will need help with include guiding parking, setting up chairs, setting up and serving refreshments. If you would like to contribute food to the reception, please first check in with Melissa (mtravisdunham@gmail.com, 908-334-9428 ) or Bronwyn (bjqmohlke@gmail.com, 607-220-3219).

 

The Barry family is planning a barn dance in celebration of Barbara's life for later in the summer, probably August. More details of this will be shared when they are available.

Barbara's obituary is available on-line.

— Gina Varrichio

Preparing for the “Hear” After: Writing Your Memorial Minute

— PHA:WYMM Coordinators: Barbara Chase, Bronwyn Mohlke,

Farmington Scipio Regional Meeting is offering a Zoom tech training on Saturday morning, April 9 from 9-10am. If you would like to attend (via Zoom!), please get in touch with Bronwyn Mohlke (BJQMohlke@gmail.com / 607-220-3219)

Here are the topics we plan to cover:

Mark you calendars!

Farmington Scipio Regional Meeting (FSRM) is includes New York's Quaker Meetings from Syracuse down to Elmira, and west from there. Friends from these meetings convene a few times a year, and Spring Gathering is a favorite event.

After two years of virtual connection, the Farmington Scipio Regional Meeting Events Planning Committee is hoping and planning to host an in-person Spring Gathering at Watson Homestead, with multiple hybrid events. We are excited. We have so missed each other.

This year Restorative Justice Circles leader Lori DeCarlo will lead us as we work to create a safe place to get to know each other even more deeply, to share life's struggles and influences as we journey together towards becoming a truly Beloved Community. We plan to continue building trust and share where we have been, and what we are still working on.

Please bring your talents. The Saturday night Talent Show is on!

More details will be shared via after Meeting announcements and email messages.

Friends may be interested in this Powell House offering by Zoom Saturday, April 9, from 10a to noon: Quaker Support Structures: The Basics and a Little More. The description follows.

In the past few generations, Quakers have found a variety of types of support structures useful, such as clearness committees, spiritual accountability groups, anchor committees, eldering, and mentoring relationships. These various approaches provide community help with personal discernment, spiritual growth, faithfulness, and ministry. 

In this gathering, we’ll first explore the usual ways in which these support structures function and are accessed. Then, we’ll spend the second half of our time in conversation about other forms of support: friendships, informal spiritual networks, cross-generational relationships, connections outside our cultural norms, and more.

The worshop will be facilitated by Emily Provance, a member of Fifteenth Street Meeting who has spent time with Friends from various branches of the tradition in Kenya, Belize, Britain, Ireland, Tanzania, Palestine, Mexico, Peru, and the United States. 

In 2021 New York Yearly Meeting (NYYM) sought the support of the Friends Center for Racial Justice (FCRJ) to lead the work on Antiracism during Summer Sessions. As a result, the General Secretary, Steve Mohlke, wondered, “Could we send 100 people to attend trainings as we did to attend the White Privilege Conference?” As a result, NYYM and FCRJ have been providing anti-racism trainings to all NYYM Friends.

There are three antiracism analysis training opportunities, all online, in the next six weeks. Hopefully one of them works for you. (Click on the workshop title for the registration link.)

If you think you might be led to be in a cohort of Friends who take a deeper dive into learning about systemic racism and working together to address it, it would be better, if possible, to attend the Roots of Justice training. It is more in-depth than the shorter Crossroads training.

Ithaca Friends who are interested in participating should also reach out to Angela Hopkins, angelaforestglenn@yahoo.com, and/or Steve Mohlke, smohlke@gmail.com.

“Corresponding with Quakers” is an ongoing, collaborative research project investigating the Ballitore Collection held at UCSB Library’s Special Research Collections.

The Ballitore Collection features more than 2,500 documents related to the Irish Quaker community of Ballitore, Ireland, including letters, journals, notebooks, and dream accounts. Originally assembled by the author Mary Leadbeater (1758-1826), this unique, understudied collection offers important insights into the intersection of gender, race, and religion in this period.

The project seeks to investigate and document the collection, and in doing so to shed light on the transatlantic development of abolitionist thought, women’s writing, and communal religious practices. We are in the process of digitizing the collection for public access as well as computational analysis.

Learn more, and get involved at https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/rachaelsking/corresponding-with-quakers.

The minutes from Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business can be found on the right-side column of our website.

Join Friends to watch a brief QuakerSpeak video and discuss what you watched. In person at the Third Street Meetinghouse or through Zoom. You can also join by phone by calling (929) 205-6099 and entering Meeting ID when prompted.

This committee meeting is open to all who would like to attend. Please feel free to come and bring your own concerns or interests. At this time we are meeting via Zoom; use the gray button below or:

Meeting ID: 891 7172 6300

Passcode: earthcare

You can also join by phone by calling (929) 205-6099 and entering Meeting ID when prompted.

Men’s Fellowship

First Thursdays, Friends, join us at Ithaca Bakery! Quaker men—and anyone who wants to hang out with Quaker men—are warmly invited.

Women’s Fellowship

Please join us every third Friday evening for a friendly, informal virtual gathering. You don't have to attend Meeting, or even change out of your sweat pants to hang out and chat. You can also join by phone by calling (929) 205-6099 and entering Meeting ID when prompted.

Join Friends to watch a brief QuakerSpeak video and discuss what you watched. In person at the Third Street Meetinghouse or through Zoom. You can also join by phone by calling (929) 205-6099 and entering Meeting ID when prompted.

This is an “open” committee, meaning that all are welcome; participation does not go through the Nominating Committee process. Please feel free to come and bring your own concerns or interests. At this time we are meeting via Zoom; use the gray button below or: 

You can also join by phone by calling (929) 205-6099 and entering Meeting ID when prompted. If you have any questions, please call Elizabeth Schneider 607-351-0057.

Women’s Chair Yoga now by Zoom

This long-running group, which met for years at the meetinghouse, now runs on Zoom, making it more accessible than ever. To join in, email <jaihari10@gmail.com> The group is about half Friends and half neighbors, nurturing the Inner Light. No yoga experience required. There is a sliding-scale fee. For more info or questions, Nancy Gabriel, 607-339-7123; ntg2@cornell.edu.