The View from the Top
When you reach your ambitious goals, it matters that you take the time to admire the view and appreciate all you have accomplished. Of course, the path to your ambitious goals will be a lot nicer if y
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Basketball: A Like Story
I watched a lot of basketball tonight. Most of last night’s Blazers win over the Lakers. Some of the Raptors over the Celtics. And the first half of the Jazz-Warriors game. All really good stuff. And
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Zen Priest & Scholar Victor Sogen Hori Tells us a Little of What the Zen Koan is Not & a Bit More on What it Is
“Popular descriptions of the koan as ‘riddles” or ‘paradoxes’ make it seem as if the Zen practitioner is interested in little more than the solving of intellectual puzzles. Those interested in en
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Collaboration Across the Human Rights Movement
One of the ways UUSC is able to strategically leverage our resources to support the human rights movement is by collaborating with other funders. We do this by championing the approaches of our grassr
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Column: Leaning Into the Lessons of Samhain
Pagan Perspectives The shifting of the seasons and the feel of fall in the air brings about some of the most meaningful and symbolic times of the year. Whether it is the crispness in the air, the Hall
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How the Daily Service was framed
It’s amazing that they could put on a religious service each day in only 15 minutes, but what did it look like? The BBC has an online archive of its magazine Radio Times and I looked at each day in Ja
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Swearing on Oath
TIL there are 13 Oath brands for which I might manage privacy settings, thanks to my path into Yahoo! being blocked by a modal demand that I accept new terms of surrender. INDIVIDUALLY?! Before I get
Daily Bread (Week 26)
I missed class this week because I was attending a gathering of UU Ministers at a local retreat center. What a joy and a challenge it was! It is always a joy to gather with beloved friends and collea
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mad hatter
The Mad Hatter Ball in support of the Eureka Springs School of the Arts is tonight. Grab a hat or make one and head for the fun at the Crescent Hotel. My Krenov inspired cabinet from my book Building
Cohousing: A New Community Coming to Tulsa
My husband John and I belong to Green Country Cohousing. Our group meets a few times a month with one goal—to be intentional neighbors. We want to own our private living space, but we want to share a
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Interdependent Web: No safe place, choose wisely, a hurricane of anger, belonging to our longings
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I am not a football fan…but let’s rant about protesting protest anyhow.
My grandfather (a WWII veteran, whom I was inspired by to join the Navy) and I once had a conversation …<p>Continue reading →
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If Basic Income can't work, why did Finland and Canada kill their tests before they had finished?
Two tests were begun, then cancelled early by conservative governments. The only conclusion I can draw is they were afraid the tests would prove Basic Income works. Basic Income Experiment Killed in O
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Is humanity the manifestation of Love in the Universe?
The Tao is the essence of existence from which the ten thousand things arise. We watch the ten thousand things come and go like the news cycles of cable news. Here today, gone tomorrow. From where did
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UUAWOL - quote worth noting
“On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. ” George Orwell
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Public Comments Needed on Child Detention Rule
The Trump administration is trying to implement a new rule that would allow federal authorities to detain children indefinitely. We have an opportunity to voice our objections now to this abominable p
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UUAWOL ministries index - Rate of bankruptcies in U.S. or people over 65
Rate of bankruptcy in U.S. for people over 65 in last 25 years = 2x Rate of bankruptcy in U.S. in 1991 for people over 65 = 1.2/1000 Rate of bankruptcy in U.S. in 2016 for people over 65 = 3.6/1000 Pe
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Ask Alexa - Is in person voting fraud a problem in the U.S. elections?
Alexa: President Trump has said that the voting system is full of fraudulent voting. Is this true? Justin Levitt, a professor at the Loyola Law school did a study on voting between 2000 and 2014 and f
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