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Sunday, May 31, 2020

Alicia Hawkins - Quote Collections

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Alicia Hawkins, beloved community member from First Unitarian in Albuquerque, New Mexico, passed away yesterday. A year or so ago, Alicia ...
Sunday, April 19, 2020

Song - Comfort Me - words and music by Mimi Bornstein

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This recording is from “Not Your Mama’s Hymns” by Unfolding (Laura Weiss and Sarah Jebian)
Saturday, April 18, 2020

I Am Legend

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I am being haunted by vague memories of this scary movie in which a global pandemic leaves this man living alone in his house with his dog, ...
Sunday, March 29, 2020

Poem - To Build a Swing - Hafiz

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You carry All the ingredients To turn your life into a nightmare -- Don’t mix them! You have all the genius To build a swing in your b...
Sunday, March 22, 2020

Week 1: Coronavirus Quarantine

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We just finished our first week -- not even a whole week -- at home together social distancing to flatten the curve, lowering the infection ...

Song - All Will Be Well - Meg Barnhouse

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Julian, you are holy, you are holding my hand. (x 2) She said, "All will be well, and all will be well, all manner of things wil...

Song - We Shall All Be Known - Karisha Longaker (MaMuse)

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Original by MaMuse: Cover by Thrive East Bay We shall be known by the company we keep By the ones who circle round to tend these ...
Thursday, March 12, 2020

Pandemic (poem) by Lynn Ungar

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What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath— the most sacred of times? Cease from travel. Cease from buying and selling. ...
Saturday, February 22, 2020

Living Charly

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One of the most captivating and disturbing storylines to me is the backslide from some height of achievement. Remember the young adult book ...
Saturday, February 15, 2020

Utterance of the Timeless Word (prayer) by Angela Herrera

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You bring yourself before the sacred, before the holy, before what is ultimate and bigger than your lone life bigger than your worries bigge...

To Sit in the Unknowing (prayer) by Katie Kandarian-Morris

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By  Katie Kandarian-Morris O God of many names, the personal and mysterious, We have come to a quiet time, an interior place, a place fo...
Thursday, September 12, 2019

Even This Is Enough (Prayer) - Vanessa Southern

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So much undone. So much to do. So much to heal in us and the world. So much to acquire: a meal a healthy body— a fit one— a lover a job a be...
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

The New Colossus (poem) by Emma Lazarus

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Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A...
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Monday, July 29, 2019

Anti-racism - Ta-Nehisi Coates

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“These are the preferences of the universe itself: verbs over nouns, actions over states, struggle over hope.” Ta-Nehisi Coates.  Between th...

Anti-racism - Toni Morrison

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You don’t waste your energy fighting the fever; you must only fight the disease. And the disease is not racism. It is greed and the struggl...
Sunday, June 09, 2019

New Paths (poem)

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Grateful for new paths that emerge from dark woods at the edge of my frustration and the end of what I know to do to help you, we take...
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Monday, May 27, 2019

Prayer for Family Appreciation

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May you never lose the excitement of storytelling to a mom listening with love glistening in her eyes. May this mom never lose the love an...
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Civic Plaza Fountain

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I tell you not to run but your joy streaks ahead to the water surging from concrete to meet you hands up laughter cresting between...
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Saturday, May 25, 2019

The Way It Is (poem) by Lynn Ungar

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One morning you might wake up to realize that the knot in your stomach had loosened itself and slipped away, and that the pit of unfulfilled...

The Camels Speak (poem) by Lynn Ungar

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Of course they never consulted us. They were wise men, kings, star-readers, and we merely transportation. They simply loaded us with gifts a...
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