designing with wood
I'm beginning to prepare for my class on 3D design for craft artists that will be presented June 13 at ESSA using Zoom. It will cover the basics of 3D design, and also offer specific information relat
Chicago’s Memorial Day Massacre—A Bloody Walk on a Prairie
The Memorial Day Massacre-- American Tragedy, 1937 , by Philip Evergood was based on a press photograph. Eighty three years ago today it was hot and muggy in Chicago. But the sun was shining brillia
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Malleable
An infinity of shapes are inherent in the clay—and if you don’t like what you get you can always mush it up and start again. The clay only becomes rigid and fixed once it is fired. That, of course, i
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shared on May 30ths: best evidence Jews were always white, more
Pretentiousness tip: Don't say "take apart". Say "deconstruct". - Perhaps the best evidence that Jews were always white in the US: When the Nazis studied US laws for ways to segregate German Jews, the
Strange Fruit—Murfin Home Confinement Music Festival 2020
Strange Fruit sung by Billie Holiday We interrupt our Home Confinement Music Festival to take sad and outraged note of another deadly plague—the lynching of Blacks and other people of color due to liv
#blacklivesmatter lynching Strange Fruit NAACP Billie Holiday Ida B. Wells George Floyd Abel Meeropol Amand Aurbry Breanna Taylor Café Society Christopher Cooper Diana Ross Nina Simone
Sunday, 5/31 ~ Teen Youth Service ~ 10:30am
This Sunday, UCMH’s Teen Youth Group will lead a service focused around gender stereotypes. They will share music and readings, and lead small discussion groups to explore the different sides of this
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A Zen Priest Offers a Couple of Pointers on the Spiritual Way After Religion
A Zen Priest Offers a Couple of Pointers on the Spiritual Way After Religion James Ishmael Ford We look around us and we see the world’s religions in turmoil. Too much certainty, too much viol
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Editorial: When Nothing is Certain
TWH's News Editor, Star Bustamonte, writes about our uncertain times and the need for solidarity and support within the Pagan community. Continue reading Editorial: When Nothing is Certain at The Wild
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shared on May 29ths
It's odd so many of the people who object to rhetoric that might diminish the horror of slavery and Jim Crow will insist white non-Protestants like Italians, the Irish, and the Jews were not white. Th
Interdependent Web: ‘Safe’ is not the only thing we live for
Heather Christensen A weekly roundup of blogs and other user-generated web content about Unitarian Universalism
“What Can I Do?”
The problem isn’t just police. The problem is the specific policing of blackness. Policing blackness is the attempt to constrain, contain, silence, appropriate, shape or otherwise mutilate the humani
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get busy working with wood.
A reader had written out of concern that her husband wanted to introduce their 2 1/2 year old son to woodworking. She was concerned that he would be too much at risk of injury. While I agree with the
When I Wrote About Grief I Meant It
So I had an idea about something to write about today, and it was about ADHD and a method for getting work done. But we’ll come back to time-not-task methods because something else important has come
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Trust and Covid-19
When my best friend had twin toddlers, she decided that there was no way she and her partner could do this alone, they were going to need to have a baseline trust, rather than suspicion, of the people
Together, We Create
Any personal act of creation happens in the context of all that has gone before. No idea or craft or skill or technique exists in a vacuum. The only way to create is together with those who have gone
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Ecojustice Avenger Theme Song
It’s been interesting watching to see what online religious education resources people actually use. How-to craft videos? Single digits for number of views. Read-aloud programs? Low double digits, if
Religious Education
Two Cheers for Religious Studies & a Pointer
Religious Studies emerged within European & American academic circles in the Nineteenth century. The attempt has been to unravel some of those threads of human cultures that have distinctive features
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The Spiritual Life - What is spiritual health?
What is spiritual health? Spiritual health is not usually named as a thing. Human beings are much more likely to talk about physical health, mental health, financial health, public health, community h
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a path to learning...
Next Tuesday I have an interview with the Path to Learning podcast. https://pathtolearning.us so I've been thinking about Friedrich Froebel. One of his important concepts was that what we learn needs