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Article on Clerking Workshop Invites Readers to Pendle Hill
Sharon Doyle, clerk of Orange Grove Meeting in Pasadena, CA, described her experience at one of Arthur Larrabee's Clerking workshops in an article for the October 2007 issue of Friends Bulletin. Her article is full of details about the content of the workshop and the "wonderful clear stream of energy" that flows through Arthur as he guides the sessions. Here are two excerpts from the end of the article:
"Imagine sitting for a weekend in an entire room of Clerks. Forty five of them. A room of humble leader servants. All quite happy to lay down the responsibility for the agenda and soak up learning….I learned a lot about clerking just from being involved with forty-five opinionated/reliable/joyful/stubborn/energetic/hopeful/positive/agenda-driven people who were laying that aside to learn…."
"Imagine spending a weekend in an old 18th century house….Where the floorboards are hand-hewn, the antiques are real and where there are 138 different species of trees including a stand of redwoods, as well as a pond with bullfrogs, a library which is open 24/7 and the word 'Breathe' posted everywhere you look. It was a weekend in a kind of Quaker community paradise, where the testimonies are practiced all day. Get thee to Pendle Hill if you have not been, Friends. It is a place to drink deep and grow. I can't wait to go back."
For more information, call (610) 566-4507, ext. 3.
Pendle Hill is located at 338 Plush Mill Road in Wallingford.
