Who's writing this?
I'm Simon St.Laurent, and I attend Ithaca Monthly Meeting. I previously attended Swarthmore Friends Meeting while going to college there.
I'm not a minister. I've had very little religious training. I rarely speak in meeting. There's no reason to think what I write is authoritative because I wrote it. I do feel a leading to write this, and maybe later I'll feel a leading to share it.
I wasn't raised Quaker, just baptized Catholic.
I also run Living in Dryden, a site about the town I live in. For more about me, you can see the disclosures page there.