Daily Quotes with Queries for Reflection, Quaker Abbey Press, LLC 2011, is based on entries culled from a 9,000-card collection willed to the anthologist, Rosalie V. Grafe, by Carl E.W.L. Dahlstrom, 1897-1981]. Each day's contribution contains a bible passage, a humanities quote- with full citation-and a query for personal reflection. Included are passages from: Albert Schweitzer, D. Elton Trueblood, Hannah Arendt, Nikos Kazantzakis, Elie Wiesel, Joseph Campbell, Loren Eisley, Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, Yang Ch'ang-chi, Alan Watts, Idries Shah, Cotton Mather and many, many more. Posted on Facebook on pages Rosalie V. Grafe and Quaker Abbey, with the subject line Order of Ruth the Perpetual Stranger, these widely read daily entries have provoked cross-cultural, cross-denominational and global internet friendships.

Joining the Army in his junior year at the University of Michigan, 21 year old Carl Dahlstrom was assigned to a truck convoy taking artillery shells to the front and hauling wounded to the rear at WWI battles on the Western Front.