The May Peaceable Table is now online

[Richard Ellwood]

Dear Peaceable Friends,

In this issue:

• A Glimpse of the Peaceable Kingdom:  On "Help-Your-Neighbor" day, a friendly elephant gave a ride to an exhausted lion cub enroute with his/her mother to a faraway water hole.
• The Editor's Corner Essay, "On the Virtue of Temper," reflects on the stiff challenge of building self-discipline, without which strong and even necessary feelings of grief and anger may boil up out of control, and do much harm.
• One of the NewsNotes reminds us that UPC has declared May to be Respect for Chickens Month.
• "Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves," urges one of the Unset Gems, from the book of Proverbs.  (That group of defenseless ones certainly includes chickens.)
• The May Pioneer is an English saint of the eleventh century, Wulfstan, who became a vegetarian without any outside nudging or support, and remained compassionate to animals and humans all his life.
• "Corn-Stuffed Peppers" makes for a delicious entree for any dinner.  The Recipe is veganized from a 1986 vegetarian cookbook entitled "A Feast of Friendship," produced by members of Orange Grove Meeting in Pasadena.
• One of the two Poetry selections, "Seal Lullaby" by Rudyard Kipling, is presented as an elegy for the baby seals massacred off the coast of Newfoundland last month.  Let us visualize the souls of  these traumatized innocents, and their grieving mothers, being taken into the heart of the Divine Mother to find healing and peace.

To see this issue, go to http://www.vegetarianfriends.net/issue146.html.

Toward the Peaceable Kingdom,
Gracia Fay Ellwood
Editor

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