Money (4) Wealth and Decadence

Money (4) Wealth and Decadence

by | Aug 13, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages

I was up on the ladder last month cleaning our gutters and noticed our 30-year roof that was installed 18 years ago already needs replaced. The month before I had replaced our 80,000-mile tires after 49,000 miles, and just before that I replaced a half dozen LED light...
Money (4) Wealth and Decadence

Money (3) Wealth and Morality

by | Aug 12, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages

I had a neighbor growing up whose name was Roger. We were the same age, maybe 7 or 8, and we shared a sandbox, a sort of communal sandbox, which we shared with several neighborhood cats. Every morning we’d clean it out, then play cars, building highways, tunnels, and...
Money (4) Wealth and Decadence

Quaker Qualities (Consistent Compassion)

by | Feb 27, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages

This past week, I was at the bank and noticed the young woman working as a teller had her preferred pronouns, “she/her,” written on her name tag, just after her name. I thought, “Well, that’s just because she’s young and idealistic,” but then I noticed all...
Money (4) Wealth and Decadence

Finding Our Way (4)

by | Aug 12, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages

VIEW VIDEO  What an eventful week it was last week, the annual motorcycle trip of the Quaker Oatlaws Motorcycle Club, followed by the 165th annual sessions of Western Yearly Meeting, which I have attended 46 years in a row. Both went smoothly, though not as I had...