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INDEPENDENT QUAKER JOURNALISM SINCE 1843

CONTENTS – VOL 168 NO 9 3 A Quaker-educated perspective on the world 4-6 Ackworth School 7-9 Bootham School 10-12 Friends School Saffron Walden 13-15 Leighton Park School 16-18 The Mount School York 19-21 Sibford School 22-24 Sidcot School 25 Spirit Rising 26/28 Letters 29 Friends & Meetings

I Am I am the light and the dark I am life and death I am hope when there is no hope I am solitude and a great crowd I am joy and sorrow I am a friendly word and look I am a kiss and a touch I am first love and love after many years I am the wind that touches your face I am the thunder and the lightning I am the bird in the sky and the fish in the sea I am spring summer autumn winter I am the sun on a cloudy day I am the seas and the rivers I am the land and the creatures I am the beginning and the end

I am

Gayle Yeomans

Gayle attends Stafford Meeting. Taken from Spirit

Rising: Young Quakers Speak. See page 25.

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Cover image: Danielle Peach on the World Challenge Expedition to Namibia taken by students from Ackworth School. Photo: Henrietta Lebetter. See page 4.

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the Friend, 26 February 2010