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Saturday, October 24, 2020

V'ahavta (poem) by Aurora Levins Morales

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  Full poem here . Say these words when you lie down and when you rise up, when you go out and when you return. In times of mourning and in ...

A Small Needful Fact (poem) by Ross Gay

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  Is that Eric Garner worked for some time for the Parks and Rec. Horticultural Department, which means, perhaps, that with his very large h...

Song - Keep on Moving Forward/Sigamos Adelante - Emma's Revolution

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Sunday, October 18, 2020

Poem - The Sound of One Fork - Minnie Bruce Pratt

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Through the window screen I can see an angle of grey roof and the silence that spreads in the branches of the pecan tree as the sun goes dow...

Visitation (Poem) by Mark Doty

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When I heard he had entered the harbor, and circled the wharf for days, I expected the worst: shallow water, confusion, some accident to bri...
Saturday, October 17, 2020

Poem - Blessings for the Beginning - Kari Kopnick

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The things to do have been done, well, for the most part. The people we need are in place, almost. We are ready, or as ready as we will be. ...
Wednesday, October 07, 2020

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 Weird thing.  My family traveled to UmeĆ„, Sweden a year ago for a memorial for my husband's mother. The kids, then 10 and 6, did great....
Monday, October 05, 2020

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Barrett died this week. He went to see his doctor because he just wasn't feeling himself, and his heart stopped on the examining table. ...
Sunday, September 27, 2020

Poem - Love Is Calling - Jess Reynolds

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Love is calling for liberation. Love is hoarse from calling, her voice raw from the decades she has spent chanting at protests and speaking ...

When You Are Weary (poem) by Jess Reynolds

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Waking up is enough. Putting on shoes before you walk out on the wet leaves that plaster the driveway is enough. It is enough to love one pe...

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 Sermon at First Unitarian by the Rev. Bob LaVallee 9/27/2020 Racism is not a failure of character. [It's a failure of persistent practi...

Poem - We Are Worthy - Elandria Williams

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We are worthy Not because of what we produce But because of who we are We are divine bodies of light and darkness You are not worthy because...

On the eve of Yom Kippur

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 How have I failed to live up to my values? I see the ways I have failed. I have compassion for what I still have to learn.  I am on the pat...
Wednesday, September 23, 2020

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 This article from the Atlantic by  Mychal Denzel Smith !!! Police Reform Is Not Enough: The moral failure of incremental change "Incre...
Sunday, September 20, 2020

Poem - Little Lesson on How to Be - Kathryn Nuernberger

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The woman at the Salvation Army who sorts and prices is in her eighties and she underestimates the value of everything, for which I am grate...

Poem - Self-compassion - James Crews

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My friend and I snickered the first time we heard the meditation teacher, a grown man, call himself honey, with a hand placed over his heart...

Quote - prayer

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Prayer doesn't change things; prayer changes people, and people change things. - Adapted from quotes by Mother Theresa / Joyce Meyer
Saturday, September 19, 2020

Poem - Translations - Kathryn Nuernberger

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I want to believe we can’t see anything we don’t have a word for. When I look out the window and say green, I mean sea green, I mean moss gr...

Harold & the Purple Crayon (Poem) by D. Gilson

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Berkeley psychologists told Harold his anger was justified. What parents let their child go for a midnight walk under no moon? I couldn’t ha...

Poem - Where the Wild Things Go - D. Gilson

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The night Max wore his wolf suit made him infamous, bred the child star never sent to bed. Middle school, Max started drinking. Not in my ho...
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