The House on Henry Street APF and other educators

and other educators

The poem draws on material from Gill's letters

sixteen years old and estranged from the father he barely knows and on the run from an abusive home life

creativity and dealing with the disaffected

Spiritual Ground addresses how these unconscious obstacles are overcome through the daily practice of Centering Prayer and the divine action working in us and in our life

The House on Henry Street APF and other educatorsChronicles the sweeping history of the storied Henry Street Settlement and its enduring vision of a more just society On a cold March day in 1893, 26 year old nurse Lillian Wald rushed through the poverty stricken streets of New Yorks Lower East Side to a squalid bedroom where a young mother lay dying abandoned by her doctor because she could not pay his fee. The misery in the room and the walk to reach it inspired Wald to establish Henry Street