# Carl Patterson

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What They Left Me to Lift: ADHD and Trauma

In this episode of Poetry in Layers, I explore ADHD as more than a diagnosis. I approach it as a landscape shaped by memory, trauma, and the nervous system’s attempts to survive what childhood could not hold. Through my poem what they left me to lift, I trace how attention splinters when presence i…

Black Man. Bus Stop: Generational Trauma and Brutality

In this season finale of Poetry in Layers, I share one of the most personal and painful pieces I have ever written. The poem reflects a moment of police brutality I experienced when I was twenty years old. The episode focuses on how racism, mistaken identity, and state violence shape the nervous sy…

EOF06C The Eye of Faith, A History of Ohio Yearly Meeting Conservative. Chapter 6 Part C, Ministry of the Golden Age

Four vivid portraits of conservative Quaker ministry show how conviction, plainness, and silent worship shaped a people under pressure from modern life. We trace their outreach, leadership, and struggles with change as Ohio Friends carry inner continuity toward 1917.• Elwood Conrad’s solemn preachi…

EOF08B The Eye of Faith, A History of Ohio Yearly Meeting Conservative. Chapter 8 Part B: Depression, WW II, and Wider service

We read a vivid slice of Ohio Yearly Meeting Conservative history where Quaker peace testimony becomes hands-on relief during the Great Depression and grows into wider service through the American Friends Service Committee. We also follow Carl Patterson’s outward ministry in Europe and the steady p…