In the Midst of the Peaceable Kingdom
by W. D. Ehrhart George School (long ago, but still not long enough) My memories of that place are mostly anything but good. An oxymoron: Quaker institution. All the right—the righteous—words, a piece of the Peaceable Kingdom, but just another institution in the end: hypocritical, duplicitous, all smiles. “Speak truth to power,” but we don’t