The March-April Peaceable Table is now online

[Gracia Fay Ellwood]

Dear Peaceable Friends,

In this issue:

• The Glimpse of the Peaceable Kingdom shows a friendship between a magpie named Penguin and a human child named Noah Bloom, housemates.
• The Editor's Corner Essay, "Wings," features aspects of the vexed relationship between humans and birds:  we hold them in contempt as inferiors, but we also envy them their power of flight, and symbolize it as our own.
• One of the NewsNotes tells of the Australian government's rescue of some of the starving animals displaced by the recent catastrophic fires, by dropping 4,000 pounds of carrots and sweet potatoes to them.
• One of the Unset Gems is a quotation from British writer and orator Annie Besant:  "As we eat, so we are."
• Letters from Rosemary Carlson and Marian Hussenbux comment on the work of PT, and the previous issue in particular.
• Annie Besant is our Pioneer for this issue.  She evolved from an existence as a deeply unhappy clerical wife in Victorian England, to an activist on behalf of the dispossessed, and a powerful writer and orator on Theosophical spirituality and vegetarianism.
• The Recipe gives us tasty cheeze scones, veganized from a cookbook produced by Sandpoint, Idaho Friends.
• Two aspects of bird flight are pointed up in the Poetry section: the serious business of migrating, and the fun, and the symbolic significance, of challenging the wind.

To see this issue, go to http://www.vegetarianfriends.net/issue160.html

Toward the Peaceable Kingdom,
Gracia Fay Ellwood
Editor

"You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt."--Lev. 19:34