Thinking of Mother Moshan, one of the Early Zen Masters James Ishmael Ford March 8th is International Women’s Day. And, I find my thoughts turning again to women in Zen. While the records are scant, nonetheless there are clear traces of women who were masters of the Zen way from its emergence as a distinctive […]

First UU Nashville is joining with Tennessee Valley UU Church which is working with Planned Parenthood, a Knoxville-based interfaith clergy coalition, and UU congregations in Eastern parts of the state to pull together a large people of faith contingent to show up for Planned Parenthood's Advocacy Day in Nashville on March 21.

Tomo Hillbo We must unstick our minds if we want to bring change into the world. Continue reading "Unsticking My Mind"

History is being made today by women all over the world. This Women's History Month, we are highlighting global changemakers.

My Kindergarten students have been wanting to make toy cats from wood, so that's what we did today.  To make the cats, students traced from a template I'd prepared and used Vaughan Bear Saws to make the angle cuts forming the ears and legs. The arms are made from 1/4 in. dowels inserted in holes drilled with a cordless drill. Make, fix and create... Assist others in learning lifewise.

International Women’s Day is an opportunity to acknowledge and laud the strengths, accomplishments, and collective agency of women around the world.

Joy comes in it’s own time, but we can put ourselves in places where joy is likely to find us, where we’re likely experience it. Joy can’t be commanded, but it can be facilitated. And the actions that facilitate joy can be scheduled.

I have felt vulnerable most of my life. Many times it felt horrible and as though my very existence was threatened. The fear, anger, obsessiveness, compulsiveness, and even terror would sometimes overwhelm me until I was only aware of those … Continue reading →

When do you decide to give up? When it’s hard? When you no longer want to meet your goal? It’s ok to give up, it isn’t a failure. But if you have one more try within, persist. Keep going. Obtaining your goal, something you deeply desire, is worth the effort of trying.  -JeKaren Olaoya (CLF) … Continue reading One More

March 7, 1965 was Bloody Sunday in Selma , Alabama .   On that day massed Alabama State Police attacked peaceful demonstrators attempting to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge on a march from Selma to the state capitol at Montgomery to protest suppression of voting rights.   Members of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) had been conducting voter registration drivesin the area since 1963 and had encounteredescalating violence.   After the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 , efforts stepped up.   On July 6 of that year SNCC leader John Lewis attempted to lead a march on the county court house to register voters.   He and other marchers were beaten and arrested.   A few days later a local judge handed down a sweep...

This coming Sunday is the day when we switch to Daylight Savings Time — and lose an hour of sleep. So I decided to do a service all about sleep. I found several poems about sleep that I’m going to use. But I’m also going to work in a passage from the Nevi’im, the minor … Continue reading "Sleep"

George Orwell on Clear Thinking, Good Writing, and, as I find it, a Spiritual Practice James Ishmael Ford There are many spiritual practices. Some are more useful than others. For me the heart of that matter is revealed in Zen meditation and koan introspection. But even so there are other disciplines that touch the heart […]

Holli Emore, is the first Pagan to be named as board chair of Interfaith Partners of South Carolina. Continue reading Interfaith Partners of South Carolina appoints new board chair at The Wild Hunt.

Children in Kindergarten through 6 th grade will start in the Great Hall for the first part of the service. Afterwards, they will meet in their own rooms: Wonderful Welcome (K-3 rd grade) in the classroom next to the dining room Love Connects Us (4 th -6 ... read more . The post This Sunday in Religious Education appeared first on Unitarian Universalist Society of Schenectady.

We are pleased to announce the annual call for applications for grants from UU Schenectady’s Social Justice Action Fund. We will offer grants between $2,200 and $5,400 for social justice initiatives and activities working towards bringing about systemic change. Applications are due by April 30, ... read more . The post Annual Call for Proposals! – UUSS Social Justice Action Fund appeared first on Unitarian Universalist Society of Schenectady.

Sunday, March 12 “Soul Matters” Sharing Circle Sunday! (This circle will be held once a month, usually in lieu of our traditional worship service; please join us in our beautiful sanctuary the rest of the month for our regularly-scheduled worship services!) March 12, 2023 10:30am – Noon Unitarian Church of Marlborough & Hudson 80 Main St.,   [ … ] The post Sunday, March 12 ~ Sharing Circle Sunday (in lieu of regular worship) ~ 10:30 a.m. appeared first on Unitarian Church of Marlborough and Hudson.

Hudson MA Women’s Red Tent: HERstory Facilitated by:   Nancy Rogers and Jody Zolli Date/Time:   Saturday, March 18; 1:30pm – 6:00pm Cost:   $10 suggested donation Location:   UCMH Union Hall Hudson, MA Women’s Red Tent Gatherings: Celebrating over 12 years of Sharing Our Stories and Creating Community! Facebook eventinvite: https://fb.me/e/SCGtSnwg The Red Tent movement , inspired by Anita   [ … ] The post Saturday, March 18 ~ Hudson MA Women’s Red Tent: HERstory ~ 1:30 p.m. appeared first on Unitarian Church of Marlborough and Hudson.

I preached from this sermon manuscript (but departed from it significantly) for the Universalist National Memorial Church, on March 5, 2023 using lessons from the Revised Common Lectionary: Genesis 12:1-4a and Romans 4:1-5, 13-17. My thanks to Pastor Gatton for inviting me back to the pulpit, and my thanks to you for welcoming me. I … Continue reading "Sermon: “Understanding Abraham”"

Once a month I run Contemplative Prayer and Chanting, on the second Wednesday of the month, 7.30pm, on zoom.This is a time of chanting and guided contemplative prayer to open the heart to Love. This practice is rooted in the conviction that there is a universal, unconditional source of love within each person and that it is possible to have a personal encounter with this source. The source has

I never liked to practice piano as a kid, maybe because I did not know how to be persistent. I always wanted and hoped for a quick reward, and never quite connected that my mediocre playing was directly related to my haste. As an adult, I’m all about being slow, steady, patient, yet determined; and … Continue reading Piano Lessons

A few weeks ago as I was ironing this shirt for church I noticed it was thread bare in some places. As I moved the hot iron over it I could see those threads pulling even more. I thought, “This … Continue reading →

  Last night at sundown the Jewish holiday Purim began and continues until tonight’s sunset.   It is one of my favorites of all religious celebrations.   As a Rabbi who spoke at the Peace and Unity Prayer Vigil at the Islamic Foundation North in Waukegan a few years ago said. “Purim is a holy day when we are commanded to have fun.” To familiarize folks with her story and the joyous festival which commemorates it—I’m talking to my fellow Goyim—we review just what the hell went on. A young girl, Esther, is picked by a drunken Persian king to be his new bride.   She keeps her Jewish identity a secret.   Meanwhile her protector and cousin Mordecai discovers a plotto kill the king and by informing saves his life.       

I’ve gone back and forth about whether to attend General Assembly this year. At first, I was planning to attend in person. I have enough money in my professional expenses budget. I was looking forward to those informal interpersonal interactions that happen at conferences. On the other hand, it looks like it’s going to be … Continue reading "General Assembly: to go, or not to go"

The Love of Money: A Practical Spirituality in Zen Buddhism, Judaism, and Christianity James Ishmael Ford “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.” Mark 10:25 As someone raised a poor people’s Baptist through my childhood and […]

The UUA responds to the most recent onslaught of oppressive laws and policies threatening the lives of trans and nonbinary+ children and the LGBTQIA+ community and continues to work for justice and the ability of all people to thrive. Continue reading "UUA Responds to Growing Legislative Attacks Against Trans and Nonbinary+ Kids and the LGBTQIA+ Community"

In this week's Pagan Community Notes, Women's History Month begins, CHS announces the Wendy Griffin Professor of the Year Award, events, announcements, and more! Continue reading Pagan Community Notes: Week of March 6, 2023 at The Wild Hunt.

Taken with a Fuji X100V using Øyvind Nordhagen’s Kodak Ektar 100 Recipe Just click on a photo to enlarge it.    It has long struck me that, in the European and North American context anyway, Christianity, if it is to survive as a living and relevant religious tradition in the twenty-first century, needs consciously to naturalize itself; it needs to find ways to become an explicitly, religious naturalist tradition, or so I think. But I would think that, of course, because I’m a reasonably long-standing member of the Religious Naturalist Association (RNA) and am also the convener of the RNA’s Clergy Group. One of the places I regularly find this naturalizing process of Christianity at work in a very visible fashion is in graveyard...

The Religious Exploration Staff at All Souls is deeply troubled by the wave of hate sweeping the United States and our own Oklahoma legislature targeting our queer families, most especially families with trans, nonbinary and/or gender exploring children and youth.  Our state currently has 34 anti-trans bills being heard by the legislature that have a very real chance of becoming Oklahoma law and changing our lives in ways we have yet to imagine. We express our unequivocal support and love for the trans people in our lives: our families, our colleagues, and the children, youth and adults in our community […] The post A Message to our Families appeared first on BeyondBelief.

Arthur Hirsch Faith groups in the United States respond to climate change.

I had a dream last night in which I had a conversation with Jimmy Carter, our former American President who is now in hospice care. I touched his arm and felt such strength in it, a hardness like my own. I mentioned how different the world would be if Ronald Reagan had not won. He knew exactly what I meant and rose up to his full height.  Carter, after all, was a true conservative. He championed American energy independence, knowing our dependence on foreign oil was a hazard to our world's future. He put solar panels on the White House as a suggestion of what what our future would best become... one in which we preserved the planet and delayed the terrible effects of global warming. Ask a conservative what they are preserving, and they'...

  Today is Casimir Pulaski Day.   If you just responded with a “huh?” you don’t live in Illinois where it is an official state holidaycelebrating Polish ethnic pride and political clout.    And, by the way, the Revolutionary War officer remembered as the Father of the Cavalry who died in a glorious but reckless lancer charge on British artillery at the siege of Savanah. For decades Chicago ’ s huge Polish community—the Toddling Town was the largest Polish city in the world—yearned for acceptance and proof that they had muscled their way at last to equal recognition with the city’s other major ethnic groups .   The damned Irish , who lorded it over everyone else had St. Patrick ’ s Day and two, count ‘em, two big Pa...

Recently, I have had several acute medical issues, including one that sent me to the hospital. I have had several chronic medical issues, including degenerative eye conditions, such as functional blindness; diabetes, since my early 40’s; and psoriatic arthritis. For … Continue reading →

I remember when my toddlers would ask me for something over and over and over. At the time, it seemed funny, cute, and also (eventually) annoying. But now I realize that they were practicing persistence, a skill they would be able to use throughout their lives as they advocate for themselves and for others, for … Continue reading Toddler Persistence

Justice requires persistence. It requires fortitude to speak truth to power, sometimes again and again and again, until that truth is understood. How have you experienced someone speaking truth to power?

I went for a walk at the Norris Reservation in Norwell, Mass., today. Walking around Gordon’s Pond, I saw Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus) beginning to sprout. Perhaps two dozen tightly curled green and purple spathes dotted the ground on either side of the boardwalk. One of the spathes had opened, revealing the spadix inside, with … Continue reading "Sign of spring"

Using techniques like muon radiography and ultrasound, scientists have identified a previously unknown chamber within the Great Pyramid of Khufu. Continue reading Scans reveal hidden chamber in Great Pyramid at The Wild Hunt.

Our theme for March is "The Path of Vulnerability." We begin by looking at the barriers to our own vulnerability.

    CENTERING OUR HEARTS 112 Pointers for the Practices of Presence Wandering around the spiritual bazaar that was the San Francisco Bay area in the late 1960s, and reading what was available, through a combination of good luck and mysterious karma  I stumbled on a book, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, by Nyogen Senzaki and […]

It snowed on the mountains around the bay this week, including Mount Tam which I have climbed. In this photo from a ridge trail in the Marin Headlands I was able to take this pic of Angel Island with Mt Diablo in the far distance. The devil mountain is the one with snow on top, […]

Early in her career Patsy Cline worked in cowgirl outfits that her mother designed and hand made. There may not be a Don McLean song to commemorate the occasion, but sixty years ago, March 5, 1963, was surely another day the music died.  On that day a small plane carrying Patsy Cline and fellow Grand Ol’ Opry stars Cowboy Copas and Hankshaw Hawkins went down on the way home to Nashville from a Kansas City benefit.  The three stars and two others were killed in the crash in remote woods near Camden, Tennessee.   Learning that the plane was missing in the area friends from Nashville joined in the frantic search.  The crash site was discovered by Roger Miller, one of the many young artists Cline had mentored.  Roger Miller, overcome...

“Gonna keep on moving forward, keep on moving forward, keep on moving forward, Never turning back, never turning back.” – Emma’s Revolution What music inspires you to keep going?

Individual freedoms that we take for granted, such as the right to live, walk, play, where one wishes or to speak freely about any subject disappears when authoritarianism descends upon a country. Continue reading Opinion: Is This a Moment, Movement, or Memory? at The Wild Hunt.

On Seeing “Living,” a Small Spiritual Classic I don’t do a lot of film reviews at this blog. Mostly because the majority of the movies we go to don’t quite earn a pause to reflect on what I’d seen. Fluff, by and large. And, honestly, what I like. But this time around even I was […]

Please join us on Sunday (5 March 2023) at 11:00 AM for “The Transience of Solutions” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell. We will be meeting in the sanctuary for this worship service.  Please join us in person at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106 if you are able to do so. Our … Continue reading "All Ages Worship (5 March 2023)"

Congregational Meeting Announcement (5 March 2023) 2023 Pledge Drive — We Need Your Pledge Now 17 March 2023 St. Patrick’s Day Party

Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to an organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist principles and values. For the month of March 2023, we choose Home is Here Shreveport (based on the program by the same name in New Orleans). All Souls members have joined with others in … Continue reading "Home is Here Shreveport — March 2023 Give-Away-The-Plate Recipient"

Children and youth will attend the worship service for the first 15-20 minutes and then are dismissed to their classes. We are now discussing peace, social justice, and the interdependent web and these ideas connect to our Unitarian Universalist faith. More details to be announced on this later today (please see our weekly email newsletters … Continue reading "Children and Youth Religious Education Classes — 5 March 2023"

Please join us on Sunday (5 March 2023) as we continue our new series in our our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM. Our adult religious education class is still meeting via Zoom. We have several persons in the adult religious education class who are new to our faith tradition and others who would … Continue reading "Online Adult Religious Education — 5 March 2023"

Please join us on Friday (17 March 2023) from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM for the resumption of our annual St. Patrick’s Day Party featuring the music of Bob Jordan and friends. The suggested donation of $10.00 at the door (or whatever you can pay — don’t let money keep you away).  Kids get in … Continue reading "17 March 2023 St. Patrick’s Day Party"

We are announcing time and location for next congregational meeting: Date:  Sunday, 5 March 2023 Time:  1215 PM Location:  All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church (9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106) or on Zoom. On the Agenda: Realities of the 2023 Budget We must have a quorum. Congregational meetings are open to all but only active … Continue reading "Congregational Meeting Announcement (5 March 2023)"

Please join us next Tuesday (7 March 2023) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch. Our weekly Zoom lunch is going dual-platform — join us from home using Zoom or in person in the social hall. Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.

  The Town of Chicago was incorporated in 1833, four years before the place became a chartered City. It’s official.   Today is the 186th birthday of the City of Chicago.   Must be.   It says it right there on the official seal, “Incorporated March 4, 1837.”   Well, that just makes it the birthday of an official municipal incarnation.   Other dates could also be the occasion for breaking out the birthday cake, depending on your taste. The City, being the City, of course prefers the date when the Illinois General Assembly issued it official letter or marque granting it exclusive rights to legally fleece the citizenry within its boundaries.   In the good ol ’ days, say back in the reignsof Jane Byrne or Daley the Younger the ...

When I am between projects, I often read poetry and dip into surrealism in order to spark something new. I was reading a book of surrealist games. The surrealist movement was an answer to the tyranny of the rational, a quest to unleash the power of the unconscious in art making. The exercises in the […]

The gentle persistence of water is a wise teacher. It can easily give way, bending around the stones in its path. It will change directions to find a way to keep flowing to its destiny. And, over time, it can literally reshape the Earth just by flowing . . . patiently . . . persistently. … Continue reading Water

Lyonel Perabo reviews Jackson Crawford's "The Wanderer's Havamal," a translation of the Old Norse wisdom poem alongside several additional texts. Continue reading Review: Jackson Crawford’s “The Wanderer’s Hávamál” at The Wild Hunt.

        Ensō Verde: Considering a Zen Inspired Retirement Community Yesterday, Jan & I attended one of the inaugural orientation sessions for Ensō Verde in Simi Valley. And we are excited. Beyond excited. We think we may have seen our future… We have been exploring the possibilities for Continuing Care Residential Communities, increasingly […]

I never planned on a career in publishing. After working in public accounting, I was offered a position at The Thomson Corporation in their publishing division. I thought I would try that for a few years and move onto something else. Shortly afterwards, I moved to their educational publishing group and ended up there for the next thirty years.

Our ministerial theme for the month of March is Vulnerability. Join us this Sunday, March 5h, for an experiential exploration of the theme. We will begin worship together in the Sanctuary and then divide into smaller groups for Exploration activities. Childcare will be provided, however children of all ages are welcomed and encouraged to participate in   [ … ] The post Sunday, March 5 ~ Explorations Multigenerational Worship Service: Vulnerability ~ 10:30 a.m. appeared first on Unitarian Church of Marlborough and Hudson.

Bob and I dated briefly in college. We broke up twice. The first time we probably needed space to see what else was out there. The second time we were afraid to commit to a future of unknowns for two … Continue reading →

A Prayer for Dreaming A World Made Whole With Gender Justice for week of March 6, 2023 Lover of Dreaming, dream with us a world made whole with gender justice, a world in which a multitude of experiences, understandings and expressions of gender can be honored, and experienced as non-competing...

My mom used to tell me every time I wanted to give up that it was too early. Because I was naturally good at some things, I thought not being good the first time in others meant I was failing. One day she said to me, ‘You will never learn if you don’t practice. Persistence … Continue reading Gift

Statue representing Janus Bifrons in the Vatican Museums  A short  “ thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful   Meditation   (Click on this link to hear a recorded version of the following piece) —o0o— One of the things I have noticed during the course of my 33 year-long involvement with the Unitarian tradition is that many, and perhaps most, people who have joined it since the end of the Second World War turn out to be Philosophical Pragmatists of one sort or another. In its most minimal form, Philosophical Pragmatism attempts to evaluate all theories or beliefs in terms of the success (or not) of their practical application. And so Unitarian ministers (like me)...

  The stunning program cover for the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington. The giant Women’s March on Washingtonand sister marches across the country that greeted Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2017 and they-said-it-couldn’t-be-done even larger marches a year later were seismic events that brought a broad , united, new intersessional feminism to the forefront of American social and political life after years on the defense as hard-fought gains once thought secure were under attack at every level. Mass demonstrations no matter how large, critics maintained, had lost their power as the media lost interest in them and the public became bored.   Huge anti-war demonstrations that broke all records were barely covered b...

Yesterday’s post on the different ways white people, and people of color, respond to charismatic megafauna and mesafauna got me thinking about a recent post by Desireé Melonas at the Blog of the APA. She went to Africatown, in Mobile, Alabama, as part of a group that received a grant to develop environmental justice curriculum … Continue reading "Soundscapes and ecojustice"

I’m still slowly making my way through is Fear of Black Consciousness, by Lewis Gordon. I’ll read a few pages, which will get me thinking hard about something, I’ll go follow those thoughts for a while, until eventually I come back to Lewis Gordon’s book. The latest bit that’s sending me off on a tangent … Continue reading "An interesting anecdote"

I have a small baking business. Before I was issued Cottage my license I had to pass a course at the health department  and then inspectors came into my home, opened my cabinets, looked inside of my refrigerator, and asked … Continue reading →

Glastonbury Occult Conference was back this year with a full schedule of events and speakers, unmarred by the extreme weather of last year but missing one of its main organisers. Continue reading Glastonbury Occult Conference 2023 at The Wild Hunt.

The right wing echo chamber was abuzz comparing their claims of a stolen election with the 1876 contest that was decided by an Electoral Commission.  More mainstream outlets like  Salon  also considered the case. Getting nostalgic for those final weeks of the last Resident as one by one his ludicrous attempts to over-turn the Presidential election results were shot down by the courts?  His last desperate attempt focused on January 6, the day that a joint session of Congress was scheduled to certify the Electoral College results and officially declare a winner.  You will recallhow that turned out, insurrection and all. The Cheeto hung his hopes on the slender thread that Vice President Mike Pence would simply refuseto certify the vot...

The Rainbow Group at the Clear Springs School will be learning to tell time during "T week," which begins this next week and they study words that start with the letter T. So, as you can see,  we made clocks. I prepared the material and provided instruction. The kids, with help, used letter stamps to place the numerals on front. Make, fix and create...

      The Prophet Mani and Christianity’s Problem with Dualism James Ishmael Ford The prophet Mani died on this day, the 2nd of March in the year 274. That is unless he died on the 26th of February, in 277. His birth name is unknown, Mani is a title, probably meaning Enlightened Lord. He […]

Persistence is the will to survive. It is the audacity to bend the arc of the universe towards justice. It is community care, stubbornness, and courage in the face of injustice. Persistence takes many forms in many different circumstances. What does persistence mean in your life?

Science fiction author (and former librarian) Karl Drinkwater is leaving social media: “…I’m going to close my social media accounts. They tie you in by becoming a habit. They tie you in by making you think you need continuous reinforcement. They tie you in with follower counts, and the implicit threat that if you walk … Continue reading "Another who’s leaving social media"

 Join us at 11am every Saturday during March 2023 for an hour of silence as a prayer vigil for climate justice.We hold silence: • As an act of grief for the climate and ecological catastrophe unfolding, particularly affecting people in the Global South. • As an act of protest to demand the UK Government acts with urgency to reach net zero carbon as fast and justly as possible, ensuring energy is

CBP 1 has been in existence since 2020, but still causes concern around privacy, confidentiality.

Reflecting on Nonduality and Zen and the Shape of a Spiritual Life Today James Ishmael Ford A couple of years ago David Loy’s monumental study Nonduality was released in a second edition. That book was very important to me in the first edition, and new edition invited me to a second look. As I noted […]

Lane-Mairead Campbell 12-Step recovery has provided me with perspective, forgiveness, and freedom from shame. Continue reading "Generous of Heart"

Talking about vulnerability is hard.  Asking people to be vulnerable is a hard sell in this culture where being tough, denying grief, perfectionism, and always having to win in order to feel good for a minute are common expectations. The … Continue reading →

Note— Back in 2017 I seemed to have awakened channeling a Trumpista…</span> Well, that was close!   The country just escaped the annual ordeal of Black History Month.   There should be an investigation into that.   Clearly a Barack Hussain Obama Muslim Commie Plot to bring this Great Country to its knees .   We have to endure those smug Black History Minutes on our TVs and other assaults on White goodness. Now no sooner is that nightmare behind us than we discover the whole damn month of March is supposed to be given over to Women ’ s History!   Don’t get me wrong, I adore women.   Love ‘em to death!   I always open the door for Ladies and tip my MAGA cap to them.   My sainted Mother was a woman and my wife—when she i...

The Martenitsa (мартеница) hung up outside our house this morning Susanna, my wife, spent the first six years of her life in Bulgaria and, as some of you may know, there is in that country a tradition of wearing, or hanging up on a tree, a martenitsa  on March 1st, Baba Marta (Grandma March) Day. Although, we don’t have any close Bulgarian connections today, Susanna and I still often mark the day—as we did this morning. Happy Baba Marta (Grandma March) Day!  

If we lived in a Pagan society where offerings were a regular part of our culture, we’d grow up seeing how this is done. We don’t, so we have to learn from what we know about our ancestors, and from each other. This is my experience with what to offer.

“Each child connects us to nature, to the innocence and exuberance of a world always hatching newborns: kittens and pups and lambs and babes” -Gary Kowalski What connects you to innocence and exuberance today?

Members are coordinating a collection of winter clothes to bring to Espanola Pathways Shelter. Large boxes will be out in front of the church with lists based on what the shelter most needs now. Winter clothes will clearly be some of the key items. For additional information or to join the team, please contact Margie …<p> Espanola Pathways Shelter Winter Clothes Drive Read More »

I’m not sure if this one is finished. I had envisioned many more fragments of words falling and heaped up, and I’m not sure if I paused here because it is done, or because I got tired of gluing tiny rectangles of paper. I’ll look at it afresh tomorrow and see.

  First thing this morning, just as I was waking up, a new jig passed through my thoughts connected with a way to add hidden splines to a mitered lid. It is interesting how the mind works. With the jig being made, I'm ready to test it and see if it does what I dreamed it will do. Make, fix and create. Assist others in learning lifewise.

Taken with a Fuji X100V, straight out of camera using Marcel Fraijs’s “Acros Dark” recipe.   Just click on the photo to enlarge it. Taken on Sunday 26th February 2023 whilst out for a short, and chilly, afternoon stroll after finishing the morning service.  

TWH correspondent Elyse Welles reports on the celebrations of Fallifloria that took place in Greece this February. Continue reading The Falliforia: Dionysus is Celebrated Across Greece at The Wild Hunt.

Capitalism says go-go-go at all costs. And the Earth is bearing the brunt of such foolishness. Rest and restoration are deeply important for our well-being. Dormancy and ebullience are a part of the seasons in nature and we are part of nature so we need ... read more . The post March Theme: Sustenance & Sustainability appeared first on Unitarian Universalist Society of Schenectady.

Children in Kindergarten through 6 th grade will start in the Great Hall for the first part of the service. Afterwards, they will meet in their own rooms: Wonderful Welcome (K-3 rd grade) in the classroom next to the dining room Love Connects Us (4 th -6 ... read more . The post Religious Education this Sunday (March 5th) appeared first on Unitarian Universalist Society of Schenectady.

The UUSS Board of Trustees, in consultation with Dr. Kim Kilby, has been evaluating whether it is time to make changes to our policies around masking in worship. Schenectady County is now back in the “green” meaning that community risk level is deemed low by ... read more . The post Update on Masking Policies appeared first on Unitarian Universalist Society of Schenectady.

What is a Covenant Group? Why are they called that? Covenant groups are small groups of people who will meet to have conversations about some of life’s big questions. These groups are more focused than a chat after a Sunday morning service, but they’re not study groups. ... read more . The post UUSS Covenant Groups Qs & As appeared first on Unitarian Universalist Society of Schenectady.