Many communities in South Florida experience “sunny day” flooding during periods of very high or “king tides.” During a new or full moon, when the sun and the moon are aligned with Earth in their orbits, the gravitational pull on…
Circus McGurkis, “the People’s Fair,” was reinvented and reborn for 2017, becoming a deliberately smaller, simpler, community-centered event. Its theme was Circus McGurkis: The Next Generation. Organized by St. Petersburg Friends since 1971, this year’s fair was held on Nov.…
The annual SEYM Half Yearly Meeting gathering, held over Thanksgiving weekend (November 23 -26), again was celebrated at the Youth Camp in Wekiwa Springs State Park. Thanksgiving Day itself was rainy and misty but the fog burned off by Friday with refreshing…
On Friday evening at Half Yearly Meeting, we participated in a remembrance of the Native Americans whose land our settler ancestors confiscated by inflicting death and misery in their conquest of the American continent. In a powerful ceremonial reading, we…
The League of Women Voters has reached out to SEYM, asking our Peace & Social Concerns Committees to circulate a petition for the Voting Rights Restoration Amendment. Florida has the highest disenfranchisement rate in the country; the state permanently bars…
Fall Interim Business Meeting, held on October 7 at the Sarasota meetinghouse was full of positive energy and lots of news. Thirty-three Friends attended, enjoying a delicious lunch prepared by Sarasota Friends, as well as some unseasonably hot and muggy…
The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) has created a new website, Quakers and Climate Change Worldwide, a ‘resource portal’ where Friends can learn about what other Friends around the world are doing – in their spiritual lives, their communities, national…
The SEYM Worship and Ministry Committee recommends that each Monthly Meeting consider taking advantage of a great resource available for them, the FWCC Traveling Ministry Corps. A program of the FWCC Section of the Americas, the Traveling Ministry Corps is…
Quaker Earthcare Witness (QEW) has been a non-governmental organization of the United Nations (UN) since 1999, holding four UN agency accreditations with the mission of bringing a spirit-led Quaker voice to UN deliberations on the environment. In 2016, the QEW…
One of the many takeaways from the Quaker Earthcare Witness (QEW) Steering Committee, held in April 2017 at Atlanta Friends Meeting, was the opportunity to witness other Friends' actions. Friend Geeta Jyothi McGahey’s tabletop display on climate justice caught my eye.…