Author: Roger Vincent Jasaitis
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Memorial Day Meeting for Worship
Dear Friends, For the past few years, we have honored Memorial Day with a Meeting for remembrance of friends and family. The Meeting will take place 4 – 5 pm, May 25th at the Meeting house. Francie Marbury will anchor this Meeting, worship sharing time. Please join us.
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Use your words not your teeth
Right after the deciding vote in the Vermont House on public safety bill,S.141, I hopped on a jet for a weekend training in Tucson, Az. at the National Institute for Civil Discourse(NICD). The legislation that restricts firearms possession for violent felons and mentally ill individuals adjudicated as a threat, was on it’s way to passage,…
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Friends of Woolman Hill
Hello Woolman Hill friends! The Baltimore orioles are back in the maple trees, the pear trees have just begun blooming, and the daffodils are still holding forth. Spring is in full bloom! As many of you may already have heard, Woolman Hill lost our dear friend and long-time Hill resident, Juanita Nelson, in March. At…
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How to Help in Nepal
Greetings Friends, Many of us would like to help the folks in Nepal, and are wondering just how best to do it??? Coincident to the earthquakes, there happened to be members of Friends Peace Teams running Alternatives to Violence Workshops (AVP) as the earthquakes were occurring. I’ve been copied on several messages from an AVP acquaintance…
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Beyond Conventional Wisdom
Today, I was struck powerfully by the fact that there are so many proverbs in scripture that express some lazy and erroneous conventional “wisdom” that we should question and reject. An example of this is the frequently repeated notion in Proverbs that if you love God and are faithful to the Spirit’s leadings, you will…
Putney Friends Meeting 