Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (8)

by Stacey Denny | Jan 20, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages

I’ve been thinking about Georgie Baker, who last week shared the happy news that she was wrapping up her degree in social work. Georgie was two-years-old when we first met. She would come to meeting with her grandparents, Ralph and Gan, and when the other children...

Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (7)

by Stacey Denny | Jan 20, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages

Well, what a good Thanksgiving we had. It might be my favorite holiday. I like the constancy of Thanksgiving, the timelessness. Thanksgiving in 2024 feels like it felt when I was a kid in the 1960s, the same menu, some of the same people, the same conversations, and...

Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (6)

by Stacey Denny | Jan 20, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages

We’ve lived in our house twenty-five years now, the longest place either one of us has ever lived, so this past summer we decided to freshen up the homestead, starting with the most important room, yet also the most humble, that place where the most pleasant and...

Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (4)

by Stacey Denny | Jan 20, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages

Our gratitude to Mike Goss for bringing the message last week. I was at our farm in Paoli and Jackson was down with Covid in Richmond, after attending a Quaker pastor’s conference at Quaker Haven, which I was supposed to attend but couldn’t because of a funeral....

Do’s and Dont’s In a Time of Change (3)

by Stacey Denny | Jan 20, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages

Our washing machine gave up the ghost last Monday. Joan asked me to look at it, so I did and deduced that paying to fix all the things wrong with our 25-year-old washer and dryer would be more expensive than a new set, so I phoned Shuee’s Appliance Store in...

Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (2)

by Stacey Denny | Jan 20, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages

When I was 16, I was hired, along with 39 other teenagers, to work at the Indiana Dunes Lakeshore for the summer. It was my first time away from home, except for vacations, which were always family events, so I was worried about not knowing anyone, and whether or not...