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+HT: Barclay 19.41
+HT: Tell your Quaker story
+MB:
+At Univ, in early 1990s, moved into a new flat, I had agreed to take
+over that running of the EU Green Society.  My flatmate Anna agreed a
+deal, that she would go to GS mtgs, if I would go to Quaker meeting,
+which was Victoria Terrace.
+Soon I felt the "secret power" and go "knitted in".
+Got to knwo YF, which was a help in what was then a pretty large
+Meeting.  Even after Anna moved away, I kept going to Meeting, and
+after a year or so BCurr asked if I'd think about becoming a Member.
+I've been thinking about it ever since.
+While in A'dam, went to MfW there.  Read more, and got more of a sense
+of how the Quaker thing worked, than I had a need to have done in a
+big Meeting.
+Moved to Porty in 2009, joined the very new Meeting, and shifted from
+"going to" CEdin, I was "part of" PMM.  That meant [doing more]
+I like the "secret power" quote
+Did the Becoming Friends course, which among other things meant I read
+the "requirements" for becoming a Member for the first time.
+"at home and .." spoke to me very deeply.
+"accept the fundamental elements.." was new to me.
+Grew up in a classic Church of England agnostic family, not until
+Quakerism recognised an experience of something "beyond the physical"
+At home with "pratical expression of inward conviction"
+Struggled with "accept the manner of Quaker corporate worship and..."
+Turned to Quaker history, which led to a seeing a flowering of
+people's renegotiation of the relationship of people to the Divine,
+and that it was what allowed our special 
+Which in turn lead to us being here today:  MfCA is as vital a part of
+being a Quaker, and that means I'm ready to not just attend LM and AM,
+but to attend _as a Member_.
+JD: How were your anarchist inclinations at odds with our goverance?
+MB: Grind slow, but exceedingly fine.  Quaker business is very
+_slow_.  [Lightbulb changing and other jokes]
+Ministry, here, now, without any qualification feels very different to
+me.
+HT: Like