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Sunday, August 29, 2021

Transition - Sermon on 7/18/2021

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 Sermon on transition from the Rev. Angela Herrera on 7/18/2021: PDF Image of the process:

Universalist Unitarians Today

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From question box sermon on 8/28/2021: What would UUs be called if we chose a new name to reflect our beliefs now? "We choose" (rh...
Thursday, August 26, 2021

Resilience - The Rev. Christine Robinson sermon 8/22/2021

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  PDF Video:

Poem - For the New Year, 1981 - Denise Levertov

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I have a small grain of hope— one small crystal that gleams clear colors out of transparency. I need more. I break off a fragment to send yo...
Sunday, August 22, 2021

Poet recommendations

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 How the Word Is Passed - Clint Smith pg. 28 Robert Hayden - ballads to remember the Middle Passage Gwendolyn Brooks - children on the South...

Your thoughts are not facts.

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" Sometimes it's good; sometimes it's bad. We'll see." - The Rev. Christine Robinson

Poem - At Blackwater - Mary Oliver

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  For years, every morning, I drank from Blackwater Pond. It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt, the feet of ducks. And always ...
Friday, August 13, 2021

Tapping medicine meditation

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Instructions : Rub hands to move the energy. Take diaphragmatic breath. Shake out hands to release pooled energy. Close eyes. Soft smile.  ...
Sunday, August 08, 2021

To have without holding (Poem) by Marge Piercy

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Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the...

In the Middle (Poem) by Barbara Crooker

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In the Middle of a life that's as complicated as everyone else's, struggling for balance, juggling time. The mantle clock that was ...
Saturday, August 07, 2021

Learning Lots about Confidence - Podcast with Amy Poehler

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 On Confidence - Learning Lots with Brie Larson and Jessie Ennis Amy Poehler: Remember it's about habit, not character. Gives you space...
Monday, August 02, 2021

Cleaning (poem) by Camille T. Dungy

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I learned regret at mother’s sink, jarred tomatoes, river-mud brown, a generation old, lumping down the drain. Hating wasted space, I had di...
Saturday, July 31, 2021

Hope Is Not a Bird, Emily, It's a Sewer Rat - Caitlin Seida (poem)

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Hope is not the thing with feathers That comes home to roost When you need it most. Hope is an ugly thing With teeth and claws and Patchy fu...
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Saturday, July 10, 2021

Listen, - Barbara Crooker (poem)

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I want to tell you something. This morning is bright after all the steady rain, and every iris, peony, rose, opens its mouth, rejoicing. I w...

Point D'alenon ( (poem) by Barbara Crooker

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La dentelle des reines, the lace of queens, and the queen of laces. A veil made for Queen Elizabeth took 12,000 hours and had 12,000,000 sti...
Wednesday, June 16, 2021

All This Talk of Saving Souls by Linda M. Underwood from Exaltation (poem)

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All this talk of saving souls. Souls weren’t made to save, like Sunday clothes that give out at the seams. They’re made for wear; they come ...
Monday, June 07, 2021

Quote: Audre Lourde

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  "When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am af...
Saturday, June 05, 2021

Ode to My Socks (poem) by Pablo Neruda

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Maru Mori brought me a pair of socks which she knitted herself with her sheepherder’s hands, two socks as soft as rabbits. I slipped my feet...
Sunday, May 23, 2021

Bring your broken hallelujah here - the Rev. Theresa Soto (poem and prayer)

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Bring your broken hallelujah here. Bring the large one that is beyond repair. Bring the small one that’s too soft to share. Bring your broke...

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man - Emmanuel Acho

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  Talking to policemen "Proximity breeds care and distance breeds fear. And because there's not enough proximity, there's a lac...
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