Jan 14 Putney Friends Mtg QUIT Update Putney, VT Feb 2-4 Eugene Friends Meeting Annual Winter Retreat, Eugene, OR Feb 5 Dragonfly Adventures Stress Reduction Klamath Falls, OR Feb 5 Klamath Falls Friends Church QUIT Update Klamath Falls, OR March 5-9 Pendle Hill Rest the Body, In the Light Wallingford, PA March 15 Friends […]
January 14 Putney Friends Mtg The Quaker Initiative to End Torture QUIT Putney, VT February 2-4 Eugene Friends Meeting Annual Winter Retreat Eugene, OR February 5 Dragonfly Adventures Stress Reduction Klamath Falls, OR February 5 Klamath Falls Friends Church QUIT Update Klamath Falls, OR March 5-9 Pendle Hill Rest the Body, Live in the […]
Dear Friends, I write this while preparing for my last few trips of this year and remembering trips over the last 25 years. The numbers surprise even me – 35 states, 4 countries, 5 prisons, 11 yearly meetings, 21 years teaching at Friends General Conference Gathering and Pendle Hill, with innumerable rape survivors, people with […]
On Netflix we recently very much enjoyed- Queens – Spanish film about several gay couples getting married in Spain and their crazy families. Legacy – photos of Native Americans from 1890-1920, music background, no narration, quite lovely in a sad sweet way to see what life was like Overheard at the Putney Post Office today- […]
Through the open window the sounds of life come in all night long. There’s a freight train about 1 AM that can only be heard by keeping still and both ears unblocked by pillow and blankets. There’s a parliament of owls who appear at times during the day and are quite large. The summer […]
Here’s my mother’s tomato sauce recipe below for you gardeners with some extras on the vine. Hope this finds all very well and life good. Carmela’s Spaghetti Sauce-Peel, seed, and chop 10 large tomatoes-Cover the bottom of a stock pot with olive oil and bring to a simmer.-Peel and finely slice 3 large garlic cloves […]
Wading down the slope from our little home, the weeds and shrubs thriving in summer heat, the small paths made by deer and others, I come to the grove of 30 High Bush Blueberry plants all now taller than me. High Bush Blueberries were commercially bred here in Putney 30 years ago at the nursery […]
Coming in from the QUIT conference which was wonderful which was soured a bit with 2 hard days of driving with too much traffic and heavy rains, very dangerous in spots, I come back into the dark bedroom of the 80 year old man slowly giving over his body to illness and getting ready to […]
Turned 55 today- (somebody say, “Babyface!”). All yesterday sat around with cousins I grew up with listening and telling old family stories, much laughing. Today finishing up sending out 23rd Beethoven Letter and spent some time in quiet stillness and gratitude at the bedside of an old friend slowly dieing as he slept a deep […]
I was 16 years old when I attended meeting for worship for the first time. Also present were a woman marathon runner, several professors, an ancient colonel from World War I, and a man who spoke Navajo and his poet wife. Not all were vegetarians or tax resisters. Not all the men had been conscientious […]