Wendell Meetinghouse to host Doody as featured speaker
WENDELL — The Wendell Meetinghouse at 1 Morse Village Road will welcome Molly Doody as the featured speaker at its Spirit Circle event at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 21.
Wendell Meetinghouse Spirit Circles invite community members to offer talks or other presentations on questions like “What does spirit mean to me?” “What is my personal spiritual or religious journey?” and “What gets me through the night?” It combines sharing from the featured speaker and community discussion.
Area residents might know Doody for her sourdough bread or as the woman who throws dance parties at Deja Brew, but she’s also someone who spends time contemplating her place in community, this life and the karmic balance of the universe.
The Spirit Circle event is free and open to the public, though donations to the Wendell Meetinghouse are appreciated. For more information on the Wendell Meetinghouse and its programming, contact Court Dorsey at courtcdorsey@gmail.com or visit wendellmeetinghouse.org.
Next ‘Honoring Elders’ program set for May 26
WENDELL — Gail Mason will convene an “Honoring Elders” event featuring Sandra Boston at the Wendell Meetinghouse on Tuesday, May 26, at 6:30 p.m.
Boston has lived in Greenfield for the past 44 years and serves on the Interfaith Council of Franklin County, the worship committee at All Souls Church in Greenfield, and with the organization Greening Greenfield, which she helped found. Over the years, she worked at NELCWIT (the New England Learning Center for Women in Transition, which is now called the Resilience Center of Franklin County), was an instructor of parent effectiveness training, a therapist with her own practice, and the creator of conscious communications classes and workshops like “The Language of Nonviolence,” “Transforming Your Triggers” and “Pilgrim Warrior Training.”
Boston graduated from Goucher College in Maryland with a degree in sociology, and then studied at Princeton Theological Seminary and explored a calling to be a missionary. Later, she earned her master’s degree in social work from the University of Connecticut.
The “Honoring Elders” event is free to attend, thanks in part to a grant from the Wendell Cultural Council.