The Quakers of Painswick

On Monday I was touched and also very humbled to be invited to the Friends Meeting House in Painswick by a long standing Quaker, Dr. Jim Hoyland. He had found a poem I had written after a visit to the town last year; wandering around the lovely old streets there, I had come across the Meeting House and looked out over the valley to the old Quaker burial ground on the hillside opposite. The story of the early Friends struck a chord with me and a couple of weeks later I wrote the poem.

At the Meeting House I found a framed copy of my poem on display - and to know that a piece of mine had resonated so much with those about whom it had been written was a very moving experience.