Pharoah Sanders

The man Ornette Coleman called the greatest tenor player in the world, Pharoah Sanders, has died at age 81. He may have been the greatest tenor player in the world, but I tend to think of Pharoah Sand

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Building a Relationship with the Nature Spirits Where You Are

Building relationships with your local nature spirits isn’t complicated, but neither is it easy. It requires demonstrating good hospitality and responsible living, consistently, over a long period of

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First Colonial Newspaper Speedily Killed by Censorship

Back in the days when I was in school one of the little factoids that I learned that stuck with me was that the first newspaper in the Colonies was Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick whic

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Looking On

Lately, my life is small, as if I am looking on to life happening nearby, just like these frogs looking out over the edge of the pond. So many big things going on in the world, much frightening, some

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Column: Bloody Dreams and Blue Giants

Despite all their violently macho bravado, even the gods have empathy. Continue reading Column: Bloody Dreams and Blue Giants at The Wild Hunt.

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Selected from Allen Ginsberg’s MOSTLY SITTING HAIKU

  Selected from MOSTLY SITTING HAIKU from a Chapbook published in 1978 By Allen Ginsberg The short poems (here) range from purest haiku through wry senryu to several which are simply poems, outside an

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We’re Ready for 2022 Fall Auction Donations!

We're looking for donations that encourage experiences with other congregants, gift cards, and homemade treats.

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All-Ages Worship (25 September 2022)

Please join us this Sunday (25 September 2022) at 11:00 AM for “What Do You Mean, ‘Happy New Year?'” with Rev. Barbara Jarrell and Barbara Deger. This is a service honoring Rosh Hashana, the Jewish Ne

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Next Week — Blessing of the Animals (2 October 2022)

On 2 October 2022 at 11:00 AM, we will have our annual Blessing of the Animals worship service. All of our animal friends are invited to join us in the sanctuary for a special service celebrating our

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Online Adult Religious Education — 25 September 2022

Please join us on Sunday (25 September 2022) at 9:00 AM for “WhUU Dat (yeah, we did that . . . join us anyway)” via Zoom and facilitated by Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger. This Sunday we will contin

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Children and Youth Religious Education for 25 September 2022

As the church year begins, our classes will be meeting separately for activities and discussion around our Unitarian Universalist principles and how they fit into our history and our daily lives. For

Religious Education

Zoom Lunch Now on Tuesdays (27 September 2022)

Please join us next Tuesday (27 September 2022) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch. Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.

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Risking Heartache

We all have an innate desire to be loved, but that moment of realizing that love is a mutual experience can be one of awe. The surprise, the joy, and the care are special moments that make love real a

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Decades Before You Thought The First Powered Flight Took to the Air

Henri Giffard's steam powered dirigible in 1854. Regular readers of this blog may have noticed a recurring interest in innovations in transportation and communications—the things that have tended to t

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The work of love, or how to resist in the dark ages

The inscription in the Cambridge Unitarian Church ’s  Memorial Garden   A short  “ thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful   Meditation 

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Actions and Events from Create Climate Justice

Redlined communities or “sacrifice zones” also bear the highest energy burdens in the country, with low-income communities spending three times more of their income on energy costs. I’m sure these per

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¡Unidos and Inclusive for a Stronger Nation!: A Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month Reading List

Talk about an affront to human life. In a bait-and-switch tactic to push the Right’s anti-immigrant message, FL Governor Ron DeSantis paid to send 50 migrants like cattle on an airplane from San Anton

History American Society Race and Ethnicity in America Biography and Memoir Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Literature and the Arts Eileen Truax Queer Perspectives Detained and Deported Margaret Regan Aviva Chomsky An African American and Latinx History of the United States Paul Ortiz How Does It Feel to Be Unwanted? Christian Coleman Ruth Behar Central America’s Forgotten History And the Category Is... Ricky Tucker antes que isla es volcán / before island is volcano Boomerang / Bumerán Achy Obejas Elizabeth Cummins Muñoz Mothercoin Raquel Salas Rivera Alexandra Lytton Regalado Racial Innocence Relinquenda Tanya Katerí Hernández The Vulnerable Observer: 25th Anniversary Edition

Column: Remembering and Keeping

“What are these pillars, Gramma? Why do they feel so strange?” She stopped on the sidewalk and looked at me over the top of her glasses and said, "You ask strange questions, Sheri Ann." Continue readi

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FUUN Programming for Children & Youth 9/25

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letter holders

This week in the Clear Spring School wood shop, my Kindergarten students made letter holders, that could also be used to hold napkins at the kitchen table. There are very good reasons for kids to make