Again-Broken Heart
In January, we moved into a subdivision that backs up to a Salt River tributary. Our backyard overlooks the canal and, on the other side of that, is an elementary school. Some days I go in the backyar
Grace
Cooking with KokHeong
In this March session, we will make a simple stir-fried Shrimps with Broccoli using an induction cooktop. Los Alamos County is phasing out natural gas usage so, that by year 2035, new buildings will n
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Wednesday Photo: Urban Promenade
Taken with a Fuji X100V using Øyvind Nordhagen’s OWH Film recipe Just click on a photo to enlarge it A Cambridge street scene taken in February 2023
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April Theme: Earthly Journeys
In this congregation, there are people with a variety of the(*)logies and Unitarian Universalism draws from many sources including direct experience of transcending mystery and wonder, the world’s rel
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Second annual Gareth Knight Conference held in Glastonbury
The Gareth Knight Conference held its second annual event in Glastonbury which is centered on Knight's influential and immense body of work concerning esotericism, occult and magical studies and pract
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Paul Dean’s Lectures: the second lecture
This is the second of the lectures in Paul Dean’s 1832 A Course of Lectures in Defence of the Final Restoration, an homage to celebrate the Universalist minister’s 240th birthday The numbers in bracke
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Co-Ministers’ Colloquy – March 28th
It was SO wonderful to be with many of you this past Sunday, for multi-platform worship, after being away for ten weeks! We were grateful to get to share a few things that we learned and experienced w
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UUSS Religious Education on Sunday April 2
Children in Kindergarten through 6 th grade will start in the Great Hall for the first part of the service. Afterwards, they will meet in their own rooms: Wonderful Welcome (K-3 rd grade) in the class
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Paul Dean’s Lectures: the first lecture
This is the first of the lectures in Paul Dean’s 1832 A Course of Lectures in Defence of the Final Restoration, an homage to celebrate the Universalist minister’s 240th birthday The numbers in bracket
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Zen Comments on an Ancient Koan: Baofu and Changqing Go on a Picnic
ZEN COMMENTS ON AN ANCIENT KOAN Baofu and Changqing Go on a Picnic Blue Cliff Record, Case 23 Ken Ireland (Reprinted with permission from Koan Conversations by my old friend Ken Ireland. Ken is someon
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Another interview with Rob Rieman: Qué salvará al mundo? (What will save the world?)
Following on from my last post, here is another interview with Rob Reiman. Although the interview begins in Spanish, Rieman speaks throughout in English. Highly recommended, by me anyway, as are his t
Education fascism liberal democracy Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal Rob Riemen spirit of democracy To Fight Against This Age: On Fascism and Humanism
U.S. Has the Power to Impact Climate Change Conversations
Advisory opinion would do a lot for nations struggling with the climate crisis.
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(Zen) Buddhism and the Coming Revolution
(Zen) Buddhism and the Coming Revolution Gary Snyder I first shared this essay four or five years ago. For some of us I think it a timely re-read. For others maybe it can be a useful first read. It wa
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Pruning
Yesterday I finally got outside and pruned one of the cherry trees in our little orchard. Pruning has always baffled me. My trees never look like the trees in the pruning guides, and though they are d
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Paul Dean at 240
Today is the 240th birthday of Universalist minister Paul Dean. He is much less well remembered than his Boston colleague and contemporary Hosea Ballou, and when I recently learned that Dean (and his
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The French Airman Who Took Off from Water, Set Back Down on It and Survived
Henri Fabr é on the dock beside his invention. The Wright Brothers may have been first, but for a number of reasons within the first decade of flight the French le
Affected and Affecting
We are easily and deeply influenced beings, and that’s a big if not subtle part of our vulnerability. We all know how being around other people can make us feel. Depending on the company we find ourse
vulnerability Considering the ways that other beings affect us and we them
Goals
Persistence often requires having goals that we’re working towards. Sometimes we start with goals that seem impossible, and have to muster all of our persistence to keep going when they’re far away. W
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Pagan Community Notes: Week of March 27, 2023
In this week's Pagan Community Notes, an update on the Apache Stronghold case, Four Dances site defaced with Nazi symbols, antiquities returned and more news. Continue reading Pagan Community Notes: W
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Widening Love’s Circle: Stewardship
The sermon celebrating the start of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston's 2023-2024 stewardship campaign. The post Widening Love’s Circle: Stewardship appeared first on Colin Bossen.
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