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Featured Work
Sugar & Snow Meditation
Solar Flame Meditation
Laying Down the Weapons ‘Round Our Hearts’
My Most Recent Work
- Year-End Letter 2025Dear Friends, I had a small miracle occur the end of summer. I got well. After complaining to doctors about increasingly endless fatigue and shortness… Read more: Year-End Letter 2025
- Sugar & Snow Meditation
- 40 Years of Quaker Ministry on the Road — Why Say Yes?John Calvi’s address at the 2024 Reedwood Forum Recorded by the Reedwood Friends Church on November 20, 2024 (via Zoom)1:05:02
- Friends Journal Author Chat: John CalviQuaker author John Calvi was interviewed about his March 2024 article, Carrying Light to Need. Recorded by Friends Journal Quakers on March 8, 2024 (via Zoom)16:29… Read more: Friends Journal Author Chat: John Calvi
- The 39th Beethoven LetterThe 39th Beethoven Letter Dear Friends, Thank you for your kind and generous support over the years. This keeps me going in all ways. Your… Read more: The 39th Beethoven Letter
- Taken AwayThere have been times in my life when someone just took me away and suddenly my burdens were less and my hopes increased. Sometimes in… Read more: Taken Away